<p>I just logged on to check the "application timetable" and it says i have to send in the common application as well as the application fee.... is this for ED/EA students only? or does it apply to RD as well?</p>
<p>i'm so confused.</p>
<p>I hope you are aware that Harvard has exactly one admission round, with the schedule of a regular decision admission round. Harvard eliminated its early action program, and that got a lot of press coverage. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/education/12harvard.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/education/12harvard.html</a> </p>
<p>[Harvard</a> Urges Others to End Early Admissions - Los Angeles Times](<a href=“http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/13/nation/na-harvard13]Harvard”>Harvard Urges Others to End Early Admissions) </p>
<p>[Harvard</a> ends early admissions - The Stanford Daily Online](<a href=“http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/9/19/harvardEndsEarlyAdmissions]Harvard”>http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/9/19/harvardEndsEarlyAdmissions) </p>
<p>As soon as you are ready, turn in at least the personal contact information requested on the Common Application so that the Harvard Admission Office can contact you for an admission interview. It’s a good idea to do that before the deadline for turning in all the other application materials, so that you and the office have more time to schedule an interview appointment. </p>
<p>Good luck in your applications.</p>
<p>Thanks very much for your reply…I’m sorry, yes. I forgot Harvard no longer has an EA/ED program.However (and i’m sorry if this is a silly question) how am i supposed to send off my “personal contact” information off separately from the personal essay etc.?</p>
<p>On Harvard’s website it says to send the Common App online to Harvard without the essays as soon as possible and then mail in hard copies of the essays when you finish writing them.</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> College Admissions Office: Prospective Students](<a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/prospective/applying/regular_action/checklist/index.html#immediately]Harvard”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/prospective/applying/regular_action/checklist/index.html#immediately)</p>
<p>I thought we weren’t supposed to mix online and hard?</p>
<p>Generally, you aren’t.</p>
<p>But if you read the link I posted above, it says this on Harvard’s website:</p>
<p>"Immediately Please Send:</p>
<p>The Common Application or Universal Application
$65.00 application fee or a fee waiver request.
Without your Common Application/Universal Application, we cannot open your admission file, track supporting documents for your application, or send your name to our alumni/ae for a possible interview in your area.</p>
<p>The Short Answer about one of your activities, the Personal Essay and the Harvard Supplement may be sent at a later date. NOTE: After you have submitted an application through either the Common Application or Universal Application website, you are no longer able to edit your on-line application. Therefore you must mail your Short Answer, Personal Essay and Harvard Supplement if you choose to submit them separately."</p>
<p>Anyone have an idea why Harvard is in such a hurry to get unfinished applications?</p>
<p>To collect money? [/cynical me]</p>
<p>Sending in your application (even if it is incomplete) provides the college with the opportunity to get your file started, especially now where there is only one round (regular decision), the amount of work to get 27500+ applications prepared for review is quite the job in its own right. Also, as said before, so there is more time for alumni interviews to be given.</p>
<p>I recently got an email from Harvard that said they saw me add the school on common app and recommended early submission of forms and that it was possible to send the supplement in later.</p>
<p>I was wondering how that is possible with the common app and whether it is beneficial to turn in the whole application in early?</p>
<p>"Immediately Please Send:</p>
<p>The Common Application or Universal Application
$65.00 application fee or a fee waiver request.
Without your Common Application/Universal Application, we cannot open your admission file, track supporting documents for your application, or send your name to our alumni/ae for a possible interview in your area.</p>
<p>The Short Answer about one of your activities, the Personal Essay and the Harvard Supplement may be sent at a later date. NOTE: After you have submitted an application through either the Common Application or Universal Application website, you are no longer able to edit your on-line application. Therefore you must mail your Short Answer, Personal Essay and Harvard Supplement if you choose to submit them separately."</p>
<p>Beneficial? I don’t know about that. They review applications in the order they receive them if that means anything.</p>
<p>Wait so what happens if our teacher recommendations and transcripts get there before we submit anything???!!!</p>
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<p>The people who handle the files in the Harvard admission office will assemble everything related to the same student into the same file. Decades ago I worked in an admission office at my state flagship university. A whole lot of filing goes on to make sure everyone has a complete admission file with information coming in from lots of different sources. Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>ok, for some reason I thought they absolutely had to have our common app or supplement before they kept anything! haha</p>
<p>ok, for some reason I thought they absolutely had to have our common app or supplement before they kept anything! haha</p>
<p>Yeah that’s the way I thought it sounded too.</p>
<p>…but I thought you can’t submit an incomplete CommonApp…
And don’t you have to submit the supplement before you can submit the appl itself?</p>
<p>Last year was the first year w/just one round, and the admissions office was practically begging us to get the personal information part of the application in online. They anticipated being absolutely buried if everyone waited.</p>
<p>Our daughter did the personal info on the online common app. in October, I think, and had her interview nice and early. She sent the essay and supplement in in December, by mail, after her teachers’ letters, one of which had gone in quite early.</p>
<p>Everything will work out. Harvard does not penalize anyone for sending that first personal info part in later, it’s just that they are trying to set up files ahead of time for some, so that they don’t get inundated, all at once, in late December.</p>
<p>say u get accepted somewhere else ED…will Harvard refund you the application fee when you withdraw the app or will you just have wasted $70</p>
<p>Having options in this admissions game costs money! You won’t get your deposit back. Think of it as paying for them to set up a file for you…</p>
<p>compmom, was your daughter accepted? And if so did you find out along with everyone in April? I ask this because someone from my hs was accepted early last year despite the fact that there was no EA, however this student was an athlete. No one believed this person but it ended up being true!</p>