<p>Apps: 964
Admits: 84
Enrolled: 77</p>
<p>what were the previous year's stats, for comparison? i didn't think the admit rate was that high (still extremely low), or the yield that low (still extremely high).</p>
<p>Last year's stats were virtually identical: </p>
<p>Apps: 959
Admits: 84
Enrolled: 74</p>
<p>i see, thanks. must have been the year before that.</p>
<p>Yes.. the year before that it was 55/55</p>
<p>Except when you transfer, none of your credits do...</p>
<p>Are you serious???</p>
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<p>Except when you transfer, none of your credits do...</p>
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<p>What are you talking about? Most Harvard transfers receive full credit for every semester they spent at their first college. Students are not typically admitted if their credits are non-transferable (courses in business, nursing, etc.).</p>
<p>ouch..that's a bit elitist of Harvard but then again it is Harvard...right byerly? :)</p>
<p>"Youa looka lika man" "ooohhh noooo"
-Swan (Mad TV)</p>
<p>Ahhhh the doings of a slight case of ADHD....nah, not really!</p>
<p>Well before I decided to treat my year at college as highschool courses, I was going to go in as a transfer. The lady at Harvard I talked to told me that when you go in as a transfer you don't get any class credit, even if it was from Princeton or something (and yes, she did say Princeton).</p>
<p>Whether that simply means that they transfer all your credits as electives (so you would still have your GE and major credits) or it means you go in as a freshmen I do not know...</p>
<p>I think you need to go back to your source again. You seem to have misunderstood what you were told.</p>
<p>I checked with the Admission Office when my S was considering taking college classes. Here is the gist of what I was told:
College courses taken in high school to fulfill high school graduation requirements, such as, say, three years of math, are not transferrable even if they receive undergraduate credit from the college (in other words, there is no dual credit as in the UC system). That applies even to Harvard Extension School courses which many Boston-area students take.<br>
If, however, a student takes a full load of college classes (4 per semester) while still in high school, that student may be considered a full-time college student and s/he may be treated as a transfer student when applying to college.</p>
<p>They are TREATED as transfer students in admissions, but once they are accepted the credits either come in as electives or don't transfer at all. I don't remember which. It was the lady at the admissions office...</p>
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<p>They are TREATED as transfer students in admissions, but once they are accepted the credits either come in as electives or don't transfer at all.</p>
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<p>What do you mean, "treated as transfer students" in admissions? If they were treated as transfer students in admissions, they would have a later app deadline, get their admissions decision in May, etc. There is a separate transfer committee that meets after freshman decisions have been sent. Everyone who is going to be living in the Yard in the fall (i.e. freshmen) is either admitted in April or comes in off the waiting list; if the committee waited to evaluate some potential freshmen along with the transfer apps in late April, they wouldn't be able to calculate the size of the class accurately.</p>
<p>I can tell you from first-hand experience that 100% of the transfers (who move into the Houses, not the Yard) are officially sophomores or juniors when they enter.</p>
<p>I am not talking about status (freshmen/sophmore or whatever), I am talking about THE PARTICULAR CREDITS, IE, CLASSES. Unless the lady A) didn't have a clue what she was talking about or B) was lying...</p>
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<p>I am talking about THE PARTICULAR CREDITS, IE, CLASSES. </p>
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<p>There's no need to yell. I refer you to posts #8 and 14. Students are not admitted as transfers unless their credits will transfer and they have taken a schedule which prepares them to enter one of Harvard's concentrations. In other words, the classes are not simply considered electives. In five years in the transfer mentoring program at Harvard, I did not know a single transfer whose liberal arts courses in a field were not counted toward their degree in that field.</p>
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<p>Unless the lady A) didn't have a clue what she was talking about or B) was lying...</p>
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<p>Yes, or C), you misunderstood her.</p>
<p>Sorry - keep forgetting that it comes across as shouting, I usually consider it as italics...</p>
<p>Seeing as I was going in as a transfer student and we talked for awhile about all the options before decididing to change my application, it's not likely. She reiterated that point several times. "We don't even accept class credit's from Princeton" is a direct quote. </p>
<p>I may be wrong - that's fine :) , I have no problem with that, but I did not misunderstand what she said.</p>