<p>i'm guessing the interviews. it seems like a lot of people got them. i kinda doubt they were to gather more info like the webiste says, because my interviewer told me the purpose was to get to know me as a person and to "confirm that you are intellectually curious and passionate" sounded like a good thing at the time, but this was after we'd talked (me, pretty passionatly) about democratic speechwriting and the ideals of public service for like forty minutes, so it might have just been him being nice and meaning "way to go, kid, stay involved."</p>
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<p>This is possibly one of the most fallible conditional statements ever made on this site. Sorry.</p>
<p>i do, though, not really believe that the interview means i have a better chance of getting in than someone who didn't have one. who knows how harvard thinks. georgetown has a deposit deadline on june 15, but i already have on my about me section of my facebook
GEORGETOWN CLASS OF 2009.</p>
<p>I'll go to Harvard for grad school.... KSG, woot woot!</p>
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I'll go to Harvard for grad school.... KSG, woot woot!
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<p>Eh... I would rather go to Woody Woo... wait, they are not the same.</p>
<p>???bump???</p>
<p>princeton, nj, makes me shudder, nspeds, otherwise i'm sure i'd look into it. what do you mean they are not the same?</p>
<p>Doesn't the Woodrow Wilson school at Princeton lean more towards international affairs? Shag's an American politics kid; KSG would be a better fit for her.</p>
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<p>It is not a school of government, but is rather a school of domestic and foreign affairs.</p>
<p>ah yes, yes indeed, but i like american foreign policy a lot. my senior seminar this semester is in managing ethnic conflict and I'm obsessed with it. I think I may turn into an IR person who just really loves American politics as well... I just searched for the graduation requirements from the SFS and I've done a lot of them except for stuff like MAP, obviously, so I might write that essay and try and get in there before September. We shall see, as I know we all do, I dislike this up-in-the-air-ness.</p>
<p>Bump.</p>
<p>Would anyone else turn down a place on the waiting list? I think I would. It would make me happy to know I was good enough to be considered 'waitlist material' but I certainly wouldn't keep my plans in the air for that long. Not to mention if I stay at Penn I'd take Summer classes to finish my degree next year - so, I guess they should just accept me, right? ;)</p>
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<p>Not for a billion dollars.</p>
<p>my roommate turned down an acceptance. I dunno why though</p>
<p>Ah yes, there's nothing like the consolation of waiting for 3 elusive spots with 99 other people. And then when [if] you get in, purportedly they tell you "Welcome to Harvard. You were our second choice."</p>
<p>and when you get there..no one will know the difference. your diploma will still say harvard.</p>
<p>Well, yeah. You have to get something out of it in the end.</p>
<p>Well going through a process like this, with a waitlist and ruining summer plans and final exams, it could really ruin my experience of transferring to Harvard, much more than simply staying where I've already been; not to mention, I would do so knowing that I have fewer people at Penn to compete with for grad school than Harvard students do among eachother (not sure if you agree with that logic) ~ besides HYPS, Penn has the highest number of admits to Harvard Law of any university (yes, more than Columbia and Dartmouth), in any given year. So not going to Harvard would simply mean I wouldn't get quite as much out of my undergrad as would be ideal, but all other factors, including financial aid, are there. </p>
<p>Of course my ego would be hurt if I don't get in, but I'm lucky enough to have the option of staying at Penn, so that puts me in a different boat from many applicants. So, it would do me more harm than good to sit on a waitlist through June and not get admitted; too big of a risk to my sense of control!</p>
<p>And I said the thing about being an auto-admit or auto-reject because that's what was said on the other Interview thread Janel, didn't know if you remembered that - I'm not sure what was fallible or illogical about my statement, I simply repeated some other tidbit that had been talked about this year and last, so I wanted to know if anyone know what I was talking about.</p>
<p>Oh, and my first semester roommate turned down Harvard and Columbia for Penn because Penn has extra scholarships for Pennsylvania residents - he didn't want to take out the loans for Harvard, but if it honestly comes down to money for someone thent hey probably shouldn't have gotten into Harvard! Ha.</p>
<p>Oh I realize that sounded bad - I meant they shouldn't have gotten into Harvard if taking out a few thousand more in loans isn't worth it (I know I'm not afraid of a little debt, or a lot for that matter.)</p>
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Well going through a process like this, with a waitlist and ruining summer plans and final exams, it could really ruin my experience of transferring to Harvard, much more than simply staying where I've already been; not to mention, I would do so knowing that I have fewer people at Penn to compete with for grad school than Harvard students do among eachother (not sure if you agree with that logic) ~ besides HYPS, Penn has the highest number of admits to Harvard Law of any university (yes, more than Columbia and Dartmouth), in any given year. So not going to Harvard would simply mean I wouldn't get quite as much out of my undergrad as would be ideal, but all other factors, including financial aid, are there.
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<p>If you are coming from a top 25 school, having a 3.7+ and a 170+ is sufficient for an acceptance at HLS.</p>
<p>But being at a top 5 school leaves more flexibility.</p>