Harvard University Class of 2022 RD Thread

@purplerain666 Congrats! What are your ECs?

In the past, Harvard used Federal guidelines and required everyone to pay $10K a year. Then they said if any family makes less than $60K a year, they will have no gap. Now I believe the number is $100K family income. Full ride is tuition, fees, room and board. Or was when I worked in admissions 6 years ago. There are then costs like transportation to and from school, books, spending money that the family/student is responsible for. If family is near destitute universities may provide a monthly stipend. Or for US cit/Perm Res you get work study so can work on campus and have cash to pay for incidentals like the above.

is it advisable for WL candidates to submit additional rec letters and/or an update letter?

For those that claimed a spot on WL, did you guys receive an email confirmation right after? I did not receive one

No, we didn’t get email either.

Not selected: Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth
Waitlisted: Brown
Accepted: Cornell & Yale

What a day!

Rejected from Harvard and Brown, DD disappointed since she had her heart set on brown (not that we can afford it!).
Accepted to good mid-tier schools with excellent merit scholarships (RPI, WPI, NEU, BU, PC). Upper Middle Class WF. All in all it’s been an adventure, this whole process is crazy! Time to make some decisions. Good luck to everyone … Can’t wait to go through all this again in two years

DD is in. TBH, we’re all shocked. She knows little about the school but is now scrambling to learn what she can. Very exciting time for her.

I got waitlisted from Harvard and Brown, honestly really happy I didn’t get rejected from both of them. I was accepted to Penn and I’ll be going there next year!

@grandscheme I’m in the same boat! Truthfully never researched that much about it that much because I had very low expectations of getting in and yet, here we are! And congrats to your D!

@tiredIBstudent Congratulations to you, too! Scrambling to make plans for her to attend the accepted students event. Hope you will be there. She has never even seen the campus.

@grandscheme I haven’t seen the campus either, and I’m not sure if I’ll be attending the admitted students event because the dates overlap with my school’s senior trip

Hopefully I’ll be able to see it though before I commit haha!

accepted! to harvard, brown, and yale!!! didn’t apply to the others

does anyone know how many students are waitlisted?

waitlisted! expected rejection so this was a nice surprise

wondering the same thing @peonyplant

got waitlisted after applying just to make my mom happy. WOOOHOOOO

@brazos21 Four years ago, when my son was admitted, you had to wait for the snail mail package to arrive to see the financial aid letter. It wasn’t up online – not sure if this is still the case. In our case, it arrived (NY) about four days later and the aid was just what we expected based on Harvard’s generalized info on their aid. Congrats!

@grandscheme @TiredBstudent I highly recommend trying to get to Visitas. My son was in the same position four years ago. We had done the tour previously, but never focused in on Harvard as it seemed like a “no way.” He was excited by the acceptance, but he also had a true full-ride scholarship from another college he really liked, and was all set to go to, happily. First of all he met again with his interviewer, and they had another conversation, this time really about Harvard itself. That helped. Then went to Visitas - I went too, but stayed apart from him most of the time and did the parents’ things. End of first day, he was (and I was, too) still a little overwhelmed, but when we met up halfway through the second day he told me he had made up his mind, saying simply “I want to go here.” By that time I was hoping he would feel that way. And that was that! Of course he could have determined the opposite, which would have been fine too. He has enjoyed the four years, and had some incredible opportunities, but he would say that there are other great schools out there too. If you can’t make it to Visitas, try to get there during a day of classes, not just on the weekend. Congrats!