When Harvard says they have a diverse applicant pool, they really mean it. Look at all the people in just this thread from different walks of life.
Phone call has confirmed that decisions are expected to be released on December 10th at 5:00 pm!
How many of you have submitted an arts supplement?
@Barcelona17 my UC app says that if you submit by Dec 1 at 11:59 PM you are good!
@mustafa123456789 I didn’t submit an arts supplement. I did submit an essay I wrote that won a writing competition on government however.
@mustafa123456789 I submitted a photogrpahy supplement via the art section on slideroom.
@mustafa123456789 I sent in a supplemental essay and two flute solo supplements via slideroom.
@Sajidur4 If only Harvard saw this thread and accepted us all! 
Ok so I know everyone says don’t trust cc chancing but I’m new and stressing like crazy about the Harvard app and I need something to take my mind off of things. Would you guys mind telling me if you think my application is strong or not?
ACT: 36C, 36R, 36E, 35M,36S
didn’t take subject tests
GPA: 4.98
Ranking: 38/315 (the IB program at my school is huge)
AP Test Scores: World History (3), Euro History (5), Lit and Comp (5), Human Geo (5), US History (4), Lang and Comp (4)
IB Test Scores: Calc AB (6)
Classes I am currently taking: IB Music SL, IB Spanish HL, IB History of the Americas HL, AP Calc BC, IB Bio HL, IB English HL
Honors: AP Scholar with Honor, AP Scholar with Distinction, Hispanic National Merit, Ventures Scholar, Rotary Club Award for Excellence in Service, Ventures Scholar, 1st prize winner of Sarah Baird Fouse Wind Competition
ECs: Principal Flautist for local county-wide orchestra, flute for 6 years, Founder/President of school’s Arts in Medicine program, through this program I started a PenPal program with a nursing home and organized multiple visits to the nursing home to play music/card games and talk to the patients, Synchronized swimming for 5 years (mostly in middle school but it was a huge part of my life and we won state competitions and placed top 10 nationally), Varsity Swimming, HOSA, National Honor Society, Hispanic National Honor Society, synchronized swimming coach for three years, taught flute here and there for a couple of years, Alachua County Honor band
As part of my application, I uploaded my resume, two flute solos, and pictures from my club and the Hands Across the World Trip
Community Service: mostly my club, sent in a proposal to a nonprofit called Hands Across the World which was accepted so I raised around $1,000 dollars (and art materials for over 100 children) for the trip and went with them to Latacunga, Ecuador (my mom’s hometown) where I translated and provided art therapy to the patients, along with watching super cool surgeries. Guess I should explain that Hands Across the World is a group of doctors and nurses that visits Ecuador annually to provide free surgeries to underserved indigenous populations. In addition to this, I have volunteered at a neuroscience lab for the last few months (over 150 hours so far, i’ve helped with research on memory and aging in the hippocampus and stuff with estrogen receptors), also a co-author of a UF Research Paper on Demonstration of high-performance cryogenic probe arms for deployable IFUs
Hooks: URM, hispanic woman interested in medicine
Wrote my essay on being culturally diverse and how being bicultural has made my life difficult (but it had a comical tone)
Also had a letter of recommendation from a CRNA from the Hands Across the World trip so hopefully that helped.
My dad went to Harvard for grad school as well so let’s hope legacy will help me!
Let me know what you guys think please!
Does harvard look at the art supplement after screening applicants?
@flautamagica you have a very, very strong chance in my opinion
i submitted a drawing/painting supplement
Really? Thank you so much! I have been like nonstop checking my status portal, even have a countdown for december 10th. I swear I’ve never been so OCD in my life x)
Where is everyone applying regular decision? I’m not sending anything in 'til after December 10, in which case I think I’ll send in Yale (or maybe Stanford – eek), but I’m curious!
@rabblerowser Tufts, Brown, UNC Chapel Hill, UMich, U of Rochester, BU, Boulder, Smith, and Wellesley!
@rabblerowser brown plme, Siena college (medical program), Yale, UPenn, U of Florida, U of South Florida, and Northwestern!
Update on the timeline: 9 days, 22 hours, and 23 minutes!
Anyone else applying to USC right now?
Or panicking over how close harvard decisions are
@snackpack02 The latter, haha. Slowly dying.
For those of you who have coursework from a college or university, do you send the official transcript for those college courses in addition to high school transcript? If so, how do you send it?
@schroscat atleast you have your cat. What kind is it?