When I inspect the source code, it says under status update #wait-list-status. Does anyone else see this and does that mean we were deferred, or has the page just not been updated yet?
As many people have mentioned before this likely means nothing. In my year people attempted something similar in trying to see if they got a Harvard ID # but even those who appeared to have one were rejected. I will say that I found out I got into UChicago by signing into the admitted students page before decisions were released, but that was most likely a one in a million chance.
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They may be a private university, but they receive exemption from paying taxes, and they accept federal funding for research institutions, so there’s no way to separate them from public money, and hence the interest of the public. Saying that a particular ethnic group would not be well-served by standardized criteria that cannot be warped by interpretation is not a reason to move to “soft” criteria. I’m not saying that all the wonderful qualities that you listed aren’t great things to have in an applicant - what I’m saying is that they cannot be measured accurately by an admissions committee, and that they are easily twisted in order to achieve the racial/ethnic/socioeconomic goals of the committee. Sociopaths are very adept at portraying themselves as what they think someone wants to see. Look at Tobias Wolff (who very skillfully forged his admission application to boarding school). And the documents revealed in the anti-Asian discrimination lawsuit were clear evidence that the admissions committee used that subjective criteria to downgrade Asian applicants. But the only reason I brought this up, is that someone asked, essentially, what qualities would get a person a 1 rating on personality.
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okay thank you!! i think i just need to calm down and wait for the 17th 
Do we know for sure it is the 17th?
It is beyond even that for schools like Harvard. They are trying to build what the powers that be at Harvard feel is an optimal class. They don’t want 1,600 clones. They want a mix of STEMmy kids and humanities and social science kids, they want athletes, musicians and artists, they want kids from diverse backgrounds, socially, racially/ethnically and geographically, they want extroverts and introverts, they want to maintain tradition (legacies) but they also want to expand their reach (first gen). I don’t doubt most if not close to all applicants have similar credentials as the ones who ultimately get in, but it all comes down to too many for too few spots. Your college experience will not be dictated by which sweatshirt you wear, but what you make of the myriad of opportunities that will present themselves wherever you end up.
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Scroll up to the links I provided last week for Harvard’s Making Caring Common program to gain more insight on the “character” traits that readers are trained to spot in application materials. This program has been endorsed by over 80 universities as a framework for college admissions. This probably will help with understanding the personality rubric that they definitely use.
I am applying RD to Harvard and was unable to get take any standardized tests due to COVID. I know it says that they will not penalize you for not submitting scores, but do you think it will give me less of a chance compared to someone who did submit scores?
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No.
Depends on the strength of the rest of your profile. Your essays, activities, interview (if you had one) and recommendations will be your selling point.
My LOR I believe are strong, same with my GPA and essays. My activities are not spectacular, but they are not terrible.
Hhh what’s the point of accepting someone then rescind them!
They can reject them from the beginning.
Or, do you think that colleges would share their admitted students data and based on that they rescind students?
Thet rescind for violating REA/ED agreements. They do not know beforehand that the applicant broke the rules.
They rescinded after comparing data, which they do over admitted students.
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What if that person got accepted to only one school of 3 that they applied to under RED and rejected from the rest. Would he still be rescinded from that one school they got into as well?
They should be.
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You are violating the rules by applying to more than one school via SCEA/EA/ED. Your offer, if you get one, will be rescinded, period.
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Pretty sure that breaking the integrity agreement you sign is bad. Also, the data is captured by common app and coalition app since the data is readily available there and they can see if you submitted REA/ED to more than one school. If you did this, the safest thing is to Reach out ASAP before decision day and change to RD for all but one. Just say it was an oversight (which they know it isn’t… no one is that careless).
What’s weird is that the Common app allows students to apply RED for one program and ED for another one which results in applying to two schools instead of only one.
The common app doesn’t restrict you from applying to multiple restricted early programs. You sign an integrity agreement. They expect you not to cheat. Cheating and lack of integrity are they worst offenses one can commit in the eyes of higher education. You would be expelled for it if you were a student, and you get expelled proactively if it is discovered during the application process.
ETA: by the way, you can get expelled after matriculating if it is discovered that you broke the REA/ED agreement or falsified anything during the application process. Sometimes they don’t act until after the school year starts.