<p>Nattiebee: I noticed that you said earlier on this thread that each harvard alum receives the entire application of each applicant he/she interviews. I was just wondering how certain you were about this since several other people here seem to say that their interviewers knew nothing or very little about them. Do you think the information the admissions office gives to each alum varries according to candidate?</p>
<p>I for one was asked by my interviewer to bring my resume with me.</p>
<p>Be careful nattie, you might be accused for lying because you used too much jargon!</p>
<p>I am being facetious; I am, however, eager to read the rejoinders. Good, old fashioned humor is not to be missed on here.</p>
<p>bnx86:</p>
<p>Just some quick advice regarding the interview process, purely from hearsay:</p>
<p>--You should know your application by heart, this seems obvious. You may even consider <em>bringing</em> a copy of your application in case your interviewer doesn't have one. He may have more to write on your behalf with an essay or brief resume in hand. </p>
<p>--Your application should have a distinctive motif (more crudely, marketing approach). Be sure to convey this, because it is the only thing that can really distinguish you.</p>
<p>Transfer 1O1</p>
<p>Transfer 101 - I know that you personally did not get an interview, and I know that only a small portion of applicants are given interviews. But I was wondering if you'd any idea how small that number is?</p>
<p>good question, confetti tea!</p>
<p>Transfer 101: thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>Confetti:</p>
<p>There are around 1000 applicants. Of these, probably 200-300 get interviews. If we estimate 75 transfer slots and 25 auto-admits, that leaves 50 openings.</p>
<p>So, you likely have anywhere between a 15% and 25% shot at this. But don't be too opimistic given this acceptance rate: other applicants in this pool are also high quality.</p>
<p>This is your situation: You are in a small, select group of prospective transfers. Since you were invited to interview, you were not an auto-admit but you were not an auto-reject either. You now need to prove yourself within this pool, and with any significant addenda you can send the admissions office from here on out.</p>
<p>Remember, accepted students must survive a committee vote. Your motif should be clear, catchy, and distinctive. Beyond this, it's really a lottery.</p>
<p>Again, best of luck.</p>
<p>Transfer 1O1</p>
<p>I was wondering:</p>
<p>Where are the people admitted without interviews from? Does Harvard interview the majority of accepted Northeast applicants, or do they check out about 50% of them as well.</p>
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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.
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<p>That's funny because imdb does list uncredited actors. Look at the list of actors in a certain film, and you'll find that it says "(uncredited)" after some of the names.</p>
<p>usuallylurking: where are you from?</p>
<p>UsuallyLurking:</p>
<p>If you are by a relatively large city, you will be interviewed. Most of the non-interviewees did not come from the Northeast, I would say. There are also quite a few international admits.</p>
<p>Transfer 1O1</p>
<p>Well then I guess NYC (to answer bnx) + no interview = no Harvard.</p>
<p>Transfer 101: Thanks for all your help. your advice has been really useful. Out of curiousity, though, what makes you so sure that the numbers for interviews are as high as 200-300?</p>
<p>I believe that nattie was told that it was "20 or so."</p>
<p>We certainly cannot trust that...</p>
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Fall 2004 semester at U-Wisconsin took 16 cr. hours of: Chemistry, Women's Studies, South Asian Studies, Anthropology, and Asian American Studies. GPA 3.87
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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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You are correct: I had a 3.75
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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
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I actually had a <em>3.7</em>
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<p>So which one is it?</p>
<p>oh man, why do people have to lie!? it makes this already difficult process so much harder!</p>
<p>OMG! Like, 3.7, 3.75, 3.79!!! They are all, like totally <em>sooooo</em> not even similar! A travesty! Everyone should totally perpetually remember to the exact decimal the exact GPA that was on a transcript from two years ago! </p>
<p>Seriously-- kindly don't cut and paste my posts out of context. When I stated 3.87, I was mistakenly calculating the credits and grades from the other college courses I was in during high school, that would not count. Notice how I RE-POSTED when I found that this was not correct.
I admitted that the 3.79 was a typo. And if I remembered that I had a 3.75 on a transcript I hadn't seen for literally two years, and it turned out to be a 3.77, heaven help me I'm going to hell in a handbasket. SERIOUSLY--who cares?? </p>
<p>What I ACTUALLY posted:
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 = <strong><em>3.77</em></strong> -------> GPA is cumulative, not for only 1 semester. </p>
<p>Dude. Read and do the math, quit analyzing, and go smoke a bowl or get laid, or something. Seriously. When I say I got a 3.7, I mean that I got a 3.7. Whether or not it's a 3.75/3.77/3.727364862563747 NOBODY CARES. For the love of God, mary, paul and christmas. You're whining about <em>decimals</em>. Jeez, I remember why I stopped hanging around this place. Some people get all strung out about what random Joe Blow posts on a message board. Sweet Liiiiffe.</p>
<p>And yeah...the fact stands that I got into Harvard. And Duke. And Stanford. And................you didn't.</p>
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And yeah...the fact stands that I got into Harvard. And Duke. And Stanford. And................you didn't.
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<p>Best. Post. Ever.</p>
<p>Heh, I almost responded to that complaint myself....</p>
<p>Your response was more poignant, to say the least.</p>
<p>But...he has not been rejected, either.</p>
<p>But I did. Right after I starred in Fight Club. My GPA is 3.87, 3.90, 3.51, and 3.98.</p>