@thenorthstar so many people who were accepted decided to go that nobody from the waitlist was able to get a spot in the class.
Some people were stuck on the waitlist until late July. Only a few were offered admission to 2022, the rest were rejected.
There is a post stickied at the top of this CC page regarding the situation last year (linked below). There was a far higher yield than anticipated last year - that is to say, far more students accepted their offers than usual - they went as far as housing some of the freshmen in upperclassman housing. Fitzsimmons is planning to correct for the situation by taking in fewer students this year and also focusing on accepting more students from the waitlist. Presumably, I read that as they will be sending fewer outright acceptances come decision time, and more waitlists/rejections - but at the same time a few more people will be taken in from the waitlist (no one was taken last year).
I suspect that the overall acceptance rate might dip below 5% for the first time this year.
Fewer acceptances planned this year:
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/2019046-harvard-will-accept-fewer-students-in-class-of-2022.html#latest
Hi everyone, I applied for Harvard and since I am from a country where limited interviews are offered, I might not get the chance to be interviewed. However, I will actually be in the US and at Harvard this month for a few days. Do you think I could reach out to Harvard about scheduling an interview when I am there? Or are interviews normally not scheduled like that (even for US citizens)?
Basically, it’s “Don’t call us; we’ll call you.” So no, calling them will not get you an interview in the US.
Got into Yale SCEA, trying my luck at Harvard for the finaid. Idk which school I’d end up going to in the end though. Any particularly good comparison threads I should look at?
Probably your best bet is to wait to see if the choice is yours. If it is, attend both Visitas and Bulldog Days. The question has been asked many times before; here is one thread:
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1878034-yale-vs-harvard-p1.html
How long will it take to get the acknowledgement and login credential? My son applied on 1/1, and still have not received the acknowledgement and login info yet.
I haven’t received login credentials either.
@xxluvforeverxx Thank you for your reply. Hopefully we will receive the credential early next week after 2-day closure of the office.
Had my Harvard interview today! My interviewer was a radiologist, and we talked in her office at the hospital where she’s doing her residency. It went very well, even though we had completely different interests, and she didn’t ask me any curveball questions. We mostly talked about my extracurricular interests, which she was very receptive to, even despite not being involved in the arts and humanities herself. She ended by saying things like “you will do X at Harvard” or “your time at Harvard will be different in X way” as if I was applying for a school I could comfortably use that verb tense for… lol
This was also my only interview thus far where I was asked for academic info (i.e. ACT/GPA/AP classes + scores…) because she said that the packet she had to fill out required her to rate my academic ability. She asked me if I was comfortable with it, and I was, but it seemed a bit strange. She also seemed to appreciate the fact that I brought my resume, especially since I have some atypical ECs. (I’ve had the same resume in my interview bag since my EA interview, and this is the first time I’ve had a reason to use it.)
@writergirl0316 I was accepted SCEA and my interviewer also asked me to bring a resume (after i asked if there was anything he’d like me to bring).
Yeah, I actually wish more interviewers used them. The interviewer having short blurbs of extracurriculars and honors would eliminate a lot of time spent asking what a certain activity entails. The one I used didn’t have academic information, though, because I know some schools don’t want the interviewer knowing specific details of the applicant’s stats beyond what is said in the interview. @MaybeHarvard2022
@writergirl0316 When did you submit your application? DD submitted her common + supplement on 12/18 and art on 12/23. Portal shows all material received, but nothing else heard. We live in an area where should have quite some alumni.
@hooverhoo Don’t worry about it. I live in a large city and got an email from my interviewer like 3 weeks later.
@hooverhoo I think I submitted my common on the 13th and supplement later (like the 28th), but it’s really quite random. I live in NYC, so quite a lot of alums for most schools, but also a lot of applicants. I put in for everything around the same time and I’ve heard from Harvard, Georgetown, Brown and Vassar, but still waiting on Princeton, Stanford, Chicago, Penn, Tufts and Hopkins.
I also have friends at my same school and nearby schools who haven’t heard from Harvard (and other schools) but submitted when I did. I don’t really think there’s a particular rationale for why some people hear earlier than others.
@IvyDreamfor2022 @writergirl0316 Thank you. Wish you both good luck.
I had a great interview today!!!
Did your interviewers reach out to you directly or did the admissions office inform you that you will be contacted? Because Princeton sent me an email saying I will be contacted, so I wondered how Havard will handle this.
@ThatGermanKid Harvard doesn’t do that, local alumni committees do.