<p>and it's not a lie, cos he really did-</p>
<p>I think I'm hibernating for the next twelve hours! I'm super hypersonically tense!</p>
<p>what's happening in 12 hours?</p>
<p>nothing- just hibernating to recuperate and get ready for my interview-</p>
<p>So, is it really true that they use a waitlist for transfer students? I've never heard of this before, and of course they don't have it on the website. And, since I go to Penn and live in Philly and applied to transfer in as a Junior, but didn't receive an interview, is there evidence to say that I'm definitely an 'auto-reject' or 'auto-admit'?</p>
<p>bumpitybump: I odn't know if you started hibernating yet, but I, too, received personal emails from harvard admissions officers asking me specific questionss about my application...and a few days after these emails, I was contacted for an interview. I think it can only be a good sign. Don't worry. Seriously! Be calm and cool and be yourself. It's just a conversation.</p>
<p>bumpitybump, a "drop" of 0.04 is nothing, seriously. Calm down and send them the grades. If you don't send them you might leave them with the feeling that there was a significant drop instead.</p>
<p>thanks everyone- think I'm calm now-I'll just be myself and I'll stop freaking out-U guys are the best!
Did someone send me a private msg? I tried to view it but the pop-up blocker thangy blocked- could u resend if u don't mind?</p>
<p>when it blocks, just scroll up and press the blue link in the top right hand corner of the screen that says "private messages"</p>
<p>As I wrote earlier, but no one responded . . .</p>
<p>So, is it really true that they use a waitlist for transfer students? I've never heard of this before, and of course they don't have it on the website. And, since I go to Penn and live in Philly and applied to transfer in as a Junior, but didn't receive an interview, is there evidence to say that I'm definitely an 'auto-reject' or 'auto-admit'?</p>
<p>oh schools have transfer waitlists...i dont know if harvard does...but others do.</p>
<p>There seems to be a waitlist, at least some people were waitlisted last year.
About the second part of the question, no one can answer.</p>
<p>for some reason, i wasn't nervous at all going into and during my interview. i hope thats a good sign... but i should have remembered to ask how many transfer applicants were interviewed this year!</p>
<p>I sent in a 25 page writing sample a couple weeks ago. Anyone think this was a bad idea?</p>
<p>I think 25 pages is a little much... You can't possibly expect a transfer officer to read the entire thing. It probably won't hurt you, though.</p>
<p>I sent in a 5 page excerpt from a longer work (about 18 pages), that I wrote as the final paper for an honors class for a professor who wrote one of my recommendations. Hopefully it'll help...</p>
<p>Well some people have said they've heard admissions say so, and formerly accepted students said so too - just didn't know if anyone knew of any substantiated information on that.</p>
<p>Well, this was a paper that I wrote independently for publication. My primary objective was making it good for the journal it was being written for, not for H. Then after I was finished I got the idea to send it in. I could give them shorter papers from class, I suppose, but I wouldn't want to bore them to death. </p>
<p>That was 25 pages double spaced, by the way.</p>
<p>Brian, you've heard them say so about what?</p>
<p>That since I live in Philly and haven't gotten an interview, I'm either a categorical 'admit' or 'reject'.</p>
<p>You will know shortly.</p>