<p>i feel like one of us should call the admissions office...</p>
<p>Oh the bystander effect...</p>
<p>i would call, but because I did not receive an interview, that might be a little presumptuous on my part.</p>
<p>Nattiebee - lol!!! I apologize for implying dishonesty on your part. Harvard claims that their transfer yield for last year is 100%, so I got a little suspicious. This is why I said that people in admissions would laugh... However, I acknowledge that I could have been misinformed. When you see Lohan again, please buy her some food and make sure that her hair stays red :P
j/k</p>
<p>For Shaganov: I don't think that you should conclude anything from the fact that you were not asked for an interview. Some people claim that the best of the best get interviews, others that it is the borderlines who get called. I believe that interviewing sure admits is a little redundant, and that things are much fuzzier in the middle where Harvard has to draw a line. </p>
<p>Geography plays a major part too, I am sure.</p>
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Harvard claims that their transfer yield for last year is 100%, so I got a little suspicious.
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<p>No, they do not! </p>
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However, I acknowledge that I could have been misinformed.
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<p>"Could" denotes possibility; you were misinformed.</p>
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Ah, I remember being in this situation. Nspeds, long time no chat.
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<p>Indeed: (</p>
<p>Thanks for posting nattiebee, I could not stop the naysayers on my own.</p>
<p>hey bnx86, i pmed it to you!</p>
<p>--i am nervous b/c my interview is with an admissions officer.</p>
<p>I was going to let it rest... but then I didn't. </p>
<h2>I am sorry to break this to you but my information was confirmed.</h2>
<p>I also find these very interesting:</p>
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nattiebee:...This semester (1st semester freshman year) I'm back at U-Wisconsin Madison, in the Honors Program, and took 16 cr. hours of:
Women's Studies (A)
South Asian Comparative Religious Studies (A-)
Anthropology (A)
Asian American Studies (A)
Chemistry (B)
My semester GPA is 3.79.
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<p>*With a B in freshman chemistry at UW-Madison (4 credits for 1st sem CHEM, 5 for 2nd) and a 16-credit courseload, the maximum GPA you can get is 3.75. *</p>
<p>3x4+4x12=60
60/16=3.75</p>
<p>Also, UW Madison does not give out A-.
Nope, it does not.</p>
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nattiebee
05-18-2005, 08:30 AM
I just got waitlisted at Brown...wasn't expecting that... :-/</p>
<p>the transfer coordinator told me today there were exactly 40 people picked for the waitlist this year. the number will probably change as all people picked usually don't elect to remain active. i was told the projected waitlist will probably be around 30 or so.</p>
<p>calipharius
05-18-2005, 09:44 AM
I thought you were going to Harvard Nattie."
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<p>Btw what happened with Yale and Stanford? </p>
<p>Nspeds, the number of times you defy printed information in order to prove sth is becoming a little exorbitant. Go profess your neverending love to nattiebee instead.</p>
<p>I am sorry for the vivisection nattie, but your friend just won't let it go.</p>
<p>You are correct: I had a 3.75--the 3.79 was a typo. If I had intended to lie about my GPA I think I would have put down something you could actually calculate, or at least something better than a 3.79.</p>
<p>And UW does give out the grade of A-. They just call it an AB.
The grade scale goes: A AB B BC C CD D F. So basically A, A-, B, B-, C, C-, D, F. Not many people know what an "AB" is, so I put it in layman's terms.</p>
<p>And I was rejected at Yale, and accepted at Stanford. But Stanford offered me very little aid, so that was a no-go.</p>
<p>With a B in freshman chemistry at UW-Madison (4 credits for 1st sem CHEM, 5 for 2nd) and a 16-credit courseload, the maximum GPA you can get is 3.75. </p>
<p>4 cr - B
3 cr - A
3 cr - A
3 cr - A
3 cr - AB</p>
<p>GPA 3.65625</p>
<p>I am sorry nattiebee. I guess my incessant love for you hindered my ability to see that you were lying ; ).</p>
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With a B in freshman chemistry at UW-Madison (4 credits for 1st sem CHEM, 5 for 2nd) and a 16-credit courseload, the maximum GPA you can get is 3.75.</p>
<p>4 cr - B
3 cr - A
3 cr - A
3 cr - A
3 cr - AB</p>
<p>GPA 3.65625
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<p>Yeah, I definitely thought the whole nattiebee deal was sketch to begin with, too. I searched imdb and there was no single actor or actress that appeared in every film that she claimed to appear in. They list the smallest roles on there and they even account for different names used for the same person too, so don't try to use those excuses...</p>
<p>nutella and sportzen--</p>
<p>have either of you learned anything else about the harvard transfer interviews? have you guys had your interviews yet? mine is the beginning of next week. good luck!</p>
<p>mine is on Monday. I'm not stressed though. Just be yourself - very few people bomb an interview.</p>
<p>I had my Harvard interview today. I was surprised because the guy didn't know anything about what it meant. He didn't have a copy of my app and he thought that every transfer students gets an interview. Because of this, I couldn't find out anything about interviewees' admissions chances. I strongly doubt that they gave him special directions to find anything out or clarify anything. </p>
<p>It was just basic stuff. Why I want to transfer there, what coursework has influenced me, etc. He he plumbed my knowledge and ability for expression in my major. </p>
<p>In my opinion, since there are so few of them, interviews are basically to check that they people that they have an eye on are not squares and "robots" as they say and that they're actually impressive intellectually beyond scores and grades. I guess my advice would be to be charming, confident, and well-spoken. </p>
<p>Relax and good luck to all waiting to be interviewed!</p>
<p>12 pages single-spaced is way too long, no one wants to read that baloney.</p>
<p>Nattie is not the only one, I know another character who claimed to have a 3.98 GPA after their first semester freshman year...</p>
<p>I am re-posting this because it may be helpful- T101</p>
<p>This board provided me with such a strong community last year that I figured I would drop current prospective transfers a note:</p>
<p>(1) I personally did not get an interview last year but was in the end accepted. So don't worry if you don't get one.</p>
<p>(2) Students here are nice, normal people. They are not superhuman, but they do work very hard. I know iT can be really intimidating seeing some of things people have done (ala the above Afghanistan example), but please do realize that you do not need to embark upon some bold international adventure in order to gain acceptance. I, for one, did not even leave the country until the summer after I was admitted.</p>
<p>(3) For those of you worried about the transfer transition, don't be. Harvard has an <em>amazing</em> transfer orientation program for transfers, especially the 50 entering in the fall (25 usually come in the spring, making 75 total). There is a week-long orientation program that introduces you to key campus sites and to attractions in Boston, like Fenway.</p>
<p>(4) For the lurkers out there, if you are considering applying next year and simply <em>must</em> leave your school, please do select some back-ups. Also, for rising freshmen who anticipate transferring because the college admissions process did not work as well as they would have liked, consider staying freshman year. Not only will you give the school a "fair shot," but you will also have more time to show your dream school how much you have grown.</p>
<p>Best of luck to all.</p>
<p>-Transfer 1O1</p>
<p>Hey transfer 101: Just out of curiousity, of all your transfer friends at harvard, how many of them on average would you say received alumni interviews?</p>
<p>Jeez, martiniblue--you made me dig out my old transcript. I actually had a <em>3.7</em>. Here's how:</p>
<p>Fall semester 04':
Chemistry was 4 cr, which I took P/F and got a B in. When you take a course P/F you get the credits towards graduation, but not your major, and the grade you recieve does not apply to GPA. All grades, however, must be released to universities you apply for transfer to, so although the B didn't affect my GPA, admissions at Harvard, Duke, ect. still saw that I had one.
Women's Studies: 3 cr. A
Anthropology: 4 cr. A
Religion Survey: 2 cr. A-
Asian American Studies: 3 cr. A
12+16+7+12+0 (chem) / 12 = 3.91666</p>
<p>Spring semester 04':
I stated on past posts that I had taken Japanese III, Korean, and History of Science the 2nd semester of my high school senior year. Korean and History didn't count towards my college GPA b/c they were counted on my high school transcript, and UW doesn't allow college grades to count for both. However, Japanese DID count, because I took Japanese IV 2nd semester freshman year (spring semester 2005), and UW-Madison counted both Japanese III and IV to fufill my foreign language requirement (there is a 1 yr requirement), as long as it didn't count for my high school graduation. So.
Japanese III = 6 cr, A-</p>
<p>And the grand total: </p>
<p>12+16+7+12+0 (chem) + 21/ 18 = 3.77</p>
<p>And lethe:
in order to be on imdb you MUST be SAG. Plain and simple. Because in order to be CREDITED in a movie by a major production house you must have been paid for your role, and you cannot be paid if you are not SAG, mainly for insurance reasons. Indie/art houses are different, but that's another topic. I am not SAG because (a) I am not a professional actor, (b) the only real reason (other than insurance) why people get a SAG card is to land an agent and get more roles, and I didn't feel it was necessary to pay $2,000 a year to get a SAG card when I was getting roles already, and (c) if people contested what I did, I could just show them pictures of me on the sets/with the actors. Besides--most of the stuff I did when I first started was music videos. And those are not on imdb.</p>
<p>Tough question, but I would say a little over half.</p>