<p>What did you write about for your "why harvard" essay?</p>
<p>And I appreciate your optimism Janel and I'm sure some people are inquisitive, but even that can be overcome by some of the overwhelming pre-professional conventions. Oh and nspeds, I said that I don't want a pre-professional atmosphere, but that doesn't mean I don't want to go to law school. I want to go to lawschool to possibly teach or be a judge, not to make money, so I like the idea of being in a very theoretical environment.</p>
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<p>Then instead of focusing on HLS, YLS would be a better aim, though both are excellent schools.</p>
<p>Wow, I think all my essays talked about why Harvard specifically is what I want, and that happened because it's the only school I applied to. I mostly talked about the impressions I got from being on campus and the intellectual confidence that I encountered, and about the social mismatch at Penn. I actually praised Penn a lot, but just said that for my idealistic character I found it limiting, and cited a lot of academic theorists who talk about the burden of pragmatism and blah blah . . don't remember much else, ha.</p>
<p>nspeds - are you applying to Harvard as well? And yes I know YLS is a great school for theory, and I've talked to the Dean of Admission there about everything. But let's be honest, the class is infinitely smaller than HLS and accepts 6% of applicants, so if I can get into Harvard undergrad as a transfer I'll just be thanking my lucky stars, and will leave the rest for future worries.</p>
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<p>Amen. I feel the exact same way. Although I do want to practice international human rights law at some point, not just teach it; in addition to being a Phil professor; in addition to writing 40 million books haha. Nothing to do now, though, but wait and see what your options are for next year. </p>
<p>But this is how I look at it: you have a sense of mission, right? If you want to teach, then you probably derive pleasure in instilling knowledge and inspiring others -- reforming the minds of tomorrow. Soo...if you stay at Penn, your presence alone will be accomplishing that in a place where it is heavily needed, one ridden with pre-professionalism, uhhh! Haha. Anyway. So yeah. Moral of the story, nothing is a dead end. :)</p>
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<p>I almost did, but I thought an application would be a waste. I have an excellent shot at HLS and YLS from here, so I am not that upset.</p>
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<p>Good Luck: ) : )</p>
<p>In retrospect, I would choose Princeton over Harvard for my undergraduate work, Yale for law school, and Harvard or MIT for my Ph.D : )</p>
<p>Ha, I think I want to be a surgeon, a real-estate tycoon, and the head of UNICEF, and will get there anyway, I think the transfer thing is more for a sense of belonging; perhaps I'm just not strong enough to do it by myself. Either way if I stay here I'll graduate a year early and it'll be fine. Where else are you applying Janel?</p>
<p>I applied to Rice and Stanford. The latter is a faint hope much like the present college at hand.</p>
<p>No faint hope, all is within reach. In any case, let's keep checking in here; I want to see how interviews go and I'll be deathly nervous about May 15. Do people ever hear before then? Also, do you know if they are accepting a few more students this year? I hear more students go abroad/defer each year, so the acceptances have gone up every year from 15 to 25 to 55 to 79 last year . . . maybe 100 this year? Here's hoping!</p>
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<p>Totally, dude. I think I want to be a space cadet and fly to Andromeda. We'll go together. After we get into Harvard....haaaaa.</p>
<p>confetti tea wrote today after her interview:</p>
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<p>This isn't infallible information -- but word on the street looks like the number may actually be taking a dip this year to circa 50.</p>
<p>Fifty spaces is different from fifty acceptances...</p>
<p>Nevertheless, last year there were fifty-five, I believe. That's still a decline.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure it was 79 last year.</p>
<p>Oh, I meant 55 spaces...that's weird, though -- I can't imagine that there were 24 people who decided not to matriculate at Harvard...</p>
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<p>Yes, but with Harvard's high enrollment rate, the difference is nearly negligible. At most, they probably only accept a handful more students than they expect to have spaces for.</p>
<p>I think 79 were accepted and 75 attended last year . . 55 was the year before. And I checked that I would be flexible to attend in Fall or Spring Semester, in which case I would take a semester off before then to work on some other projects, and work abroad. I wonder if this will be an issue now . . .</p>
<p>Yeah, I checked-off both as well. However, I've recently been told that junior transfers, like me, have to start in the fall. So my asking for spring was gratuitous.</p>
<p>Where do you want to go, and what do you want to do abroad, Brian?</p>
<p>When I was at Byerly, I was told that junior transfers can apply for fall and spring. Applying for both will not be deleterious to one's application for admission.</p>
<p>Good to hear, nspeds.</p>