The good news is that Harvard isn’t the only game in town.
@doorrealthe just checked today, and I was accepted to the class of 2022! Just wanted to give people an update on what’s happening.
wow, summer melt is going on a lot longer than last year.
@Yuchentu Congrats! I was rejected off wait list months ago, but very happy for you. R u gonna take the offer?
@ambitionsquared as of now I’m most likely going to take it. Harvard has been my dream for a while, as cliche as that sounds.
Harvard is one of a kind. Taking a gap year to attend is definitely worthwhile. Congrats.
^^^ Just to be clear: Harvard is NOT one of a kind. Student’s can get the same education, have the same opportunities, and have the same collegiate experience by attending Yale, Princeton, Stanford, UChicago, UPenn, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Boston College and any number of other colleges. It’s only the 18-year old brain that thinks Harvard is one-of-a-kind!
@gibby I posted this in the Harvard subreddit, but it’s relatively quiet over there. I was wondering if you could also give me some insight?
“as an additional edit: I know I shouldn’t question the legitimacy of this program, but I can’t help but worry about receiving very little in the ways of official paperwork until it’s sent out next year along with the RD accepted students’ acceptance packages. Could anyone reassure me on this point?”
These are my thoughts about the z-list “program” (for lack of a better word) after contacting the admissions office and being told that I would only receive a confirmation e-mail of my acceptance for admission without any hard copy documents/proof of enrollment until next year. My school’s counselor also brought up some concerns because she’s never really experienced the z-list process in the past either.
thanks for your time.
^^ @Yuchentu: As long as you have an email from Harvard offering you a place on next years Z-list and a confirmation of your reply, then you should be good-to-go.
@gibby my kid goes to Harvard and to them it is one of a kind. I also think it is one of a kind.
@collegedad13: My kid graduated from Harvard, and would be the first to admit that Harvard is NOT a one of a kind school. FWIW: I fully subscribe to Jeffrey Brenzel’s way of thinking: https://admissions.yale.edu/after-colleges-accept-you
And keep in mind, that many of your kid’s professors did not receive their undergraduate degree from Harvard and think their alma matter on par with Harvard.
Yes what makes Harvard unique from the other schools @gibby mentions, not much that I can see.
It’s not just the 18-year-old mind that reacts that way. And I suspect you know that.
Drop the “H- bomb” - only reluctantly - people’s reactions, even after knowing I earned most of my professional degrees, and spent most of my professional life, at Duke Univ Med. - change drastically.
Why does CC front page have a separate listing?
There is a difference between a college being famous and a college that provides a top quality education, some would argue that a better education could be obtained elsewhere, no doubt that Harvard is famous.
@gibby Sorry to continue having the dumbest doubts about this, but this offer of admission is soley to Harvard College Class of 2022 rather than any sort of side college like Radcliffe or the Extension School, right?
Radcliffe no longer exists as a separate degree-granting school. With some exceptions, like women’s crew, some clubs, and the Radcliffe Institute, it exists only as a memory.
@Yuchentu: Sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith and TRUST someone (in this case Harvard) at their word, after all why would they lie about such a thing.
FWIW: Radcliffe College no longer exists (it fully merged with Harvard in 1999 ) and Harvard College Admissions and the Extension School Admissions departments are completely separate, so no your acceptance to the class of 2022 is not to either of those.
Harvard provides a top quality education. Try fighting for classes at Berkeley. Harvard from what I have seen provides so many resources for the students it is incredible. They truly try to help the students at every point imaginable.
Well, if you are a Regents and Chancellors’ scholar, (top 1% admitted students), you get to go first…no fighting.