Harvard SCEA Class of 2020 Applicant Thread

@L.Knomad. I’m not sure it’s true that your interviewer is assigned based on your expressed interest.

My older son made rather clear that his interests were Classics and engineering. His interviewer was a medical doctor.

My younger son expressed an interest in math. His interviewer is involved higher education administration.

Same type of scenario with my daughter three years ago but this year I’ve heard a lot of interviewers matching the area of interest at Harvard and Princeton. Probably just coincidence but it would actually make sense for them to try to do it.

Welp, my interview was so awkward for me. The guy was this stone-faced asian person in finance, who fixated on these extremely tiny details (i.e. whether I like to wear sweaters or jackets outside) or surprised me with ridiculous questions (he asked if i or my friends had ever done drugs). There was only like 1 moment when he laughed. Thank goodness my on campus interview was fantastic!

Haven’t had an interview so far… Did anyone send in a request for one?

Okay people I had an on campus interview with my regional admissions rep. Did most of you have an alumni interview and an on campus interview? Or just one?

@nsliyromanov I just had an alumnae interview! Did you have to request an on campus one or do you just live in the area??

Question - I submitted my Harvard app at 11:50 Mountain time, which is 1:50 Eastern. I could have sworn that I submitted it under SCEA, but when I got my admit portal it said that I submitted RD! So I called Harvard, and they said that I should email them about the problem. So I emailed them, and they said I should call, so I called again, and was told to send another email, so I sent another email and now I am seriously freaking out!

Both Common App and the Harvard website say that I should be able to change, but I’m worried that I’ll be stuck on an endless loop :frowning: any advice?

Question - I submitted my Harvard app at 11:50 Mountain time, which is 1:50 Eastern. I could have sworn that I submitted it under SCEA, but when I got my admit portal it said that I submitted RD! So I called Harvard, and they said that I should email them about the problem. So I emailed them, and they said I should call, so I called again, and was told to send another email, so I sent another email and now I am seriously freaking out!

Both Common App and the Harvard website say that I should be able to change, but I’m worried that I’ll be stuck on an endless loop any advice?

@scienceandart Did they tell you what you must do?

Crazy realization guys, it’s roughly 30 days until SCEA decisions! (Assuming decisions will come out around December 11 like they did last year)

I think it’ll come out on Thursday (December 10)

@Falcon1, I really don’t know if that is a new practice. Perhaps there is some effort toward that, but I would imagine that it would be more difficult outside of relatively dense East Coast locales, and other places that are very dense.

@Harvard2020s Unless my information is wrong, I think the Class of 2017 and 2019 each got their results on a Thursday night while the Class of 2018 got theirs on a Friday night. So it very well may be Thursday, December 10!

Does Harvard send emails for all scea notifications, or are decisions posted to our portals??

Doesn’t the website say decisions will come out December 15th?

BEFORE December 15th.

My guess is the 10th, but again anyone know if the letters will be online or in the mail?

@nsliyromanov Online. The decision will appear as a status update.

For those of you living in the countries with limited interview opportunities, have you received any email about the interviews or have you done an interview? If I live in a country with limited interview opportunities and haven’t received an email about my interview, does it mean that I’m most likely rejected?

When are the interviews generally conducted (as in, how many weeks after we submitted our application? Around this time or later in November?)