I was hoping for closure, but all I got were waitlists, so I’d figure I’d start this thread for discussion. Does anyone know how many students Harvard waitlists and their acceptance rate from the waitlist is?
Last year, 75 students were accepted from the waitlist. I am also a waitlisted applicant.
They were waiting for your cum to come out of your small shaft.
@ILoveStanford Out of how many?
I was also waitlisted at almost all of my reach schools. (Harvard, Dartmouth, Duke, Princeton). Harvard doesn’t release how many applicants it puts on the wait list, so it’s hard to tell what the acceptance rate from the wait list is.
I’d wager that Harvard places a similar number of applicants on the waitlist as Yale and Princeton, so somewhere between 1000-1400. Considering that they took 75 last year and 93 the year before that, an acceptance rate of 5-10% off the waitlist is fairly reasonable. Good luck everybody! ~ Fellow waitlister
Waitlisted as well. Somewhat thrilled as I wasn’t expecting at all, but a bit let down that I was rejected everywhere else lol
Keep in mind that on average only two-thirds of people offered the waitlist agree to stay on it. So the number waitlisted might be a little lower than that.
Where did you get that statistic?
@ILoveStanford where did you get that statistic
@parentbxena The letter sent through email sent stated it
In all honesty, though, is it even worth it to hope at this point? Since it seems to be commonly said that schools don’t even use their waitlists some years. Like I think that Stanford and Yale posted stats about that in years past?
Waitlisted here and Columbia. At least it’s not a NO like MIT. But I got in at Cornell and Notre Dame. What to do…
It was on Harvard’s website under “admission statistics”
When are you guys planning on sending your letter of continued interest? And are you going to send updated transcripts along with it?
^^ @realityhitshard: Several years ago, an admitted student was convicted of submitting fake transcripts to gain admission to Harvard: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/12/16/harvard-wheeler-college-guilty/. So, I imagine Harvard Admissions is now very leary of a transcript, or updated transcript, submitted from a student. If you are going to send an updated transcript, it should be an official transcript from your guidance counselor. My recommendation is to talk to your GC first to even see if they will do this.
@gibby Could you tell me when I should send a letter of interest to Harvard in the coming weeks? also my daughter thought it would be a good idea to get her employer to recommend her as well because it’s a different prescriptive. She went above and beyond with community service and he recgnozies that shes a role model and prominent figure in the community
^^ @parentbxena: Students admitted in the SCEA and RD round are not required to let Harvard know of their acceptance until May 1st – so Harvard won’t know how many openings for waitlisted students they will have before then.
In years past, Harvard has admitted students from the waitlist in waves starting around May 15th. So, I would think a LOCI should arrive on or before May 1st. If your daughter wants to have her employer send in a letter of recommendation, that would be fine.
That said, I posted this last year and it probably needs to be repeated again on this thread with a few updates
@gibby I apologize, My daughter should upload the LOIC to Harvard’s portal by may 2nd? is my understanding correct? Thank you for your help. I am not a native English speaker.
also her employer has to mail the recommendation to Harvard’s admission office? I thought it was to the regional admissions officer?
I truly appreciate it
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Harvard doesn’t publicize the names of their regional admissions officers, so her employer should just send the letter to Admissions and put your daughter’s name, high school, birth date and Common Application number at the top of the letter and the letter will make into her file. Harvard Admissions’ mailing address is