What do you mean? They ask for 1 supplement in addition to the Common App Essay (aka the personal statement)
You know what happens when you assume.
Read nothing into it.
yes, can anyone provide insight into the question in post #559?
@AnnaNura I don’t have confidence in divining what this means for your admissions decision. Sorry!
@hgrad2010 How important is the interview. Can it make a difference between deferred and accepted?
How does being a URM play into the admissions rating system?
@annanura I think that the majority of people who don’t get interviewed EA will be deferred. About 10% of apps get outright rejected but most get deferred. I think they take “must have” students in EA: top URM, world class scientists/athletes/musicians/writers. If there isn’t anything “pressing” about the case, they can review in RD. For the people who get interviewed it just means you are a still a contender, but the majority of them will also be deferred. Perfect scores are not enough to be a “must have”, there are plenty of them and most get rejected.
@rêveuse Interview can be very important. But how important that is depends on individual applicant. It can make a difference between deferred and accepted.
@carey46 Apparently from the information shown in the lawsuit, a URM with an overall rating of “3” could be admitted, while a unhooked applicant rated 3 was likely to be rejected. Correct me if I’m wrong.
@ginamd03 what are your son’s scores?
Should I send my first quarter grades if I am applying EA? I didn’t get as good a grade in AP calculus as I was hoping but my GPA still went up because of my other courses.
@cmc1999
Actually only 1000 of the 40,000 applicants receive perfect ACT or SAT scores, and a little less also score perfect on subject tests. So plenty to choose from but not a whole class. do many legacies apply early and do they get preference? my classmate is a legacy but slightly weaker than me academically and EC
yes, a ton of legacy apply early. I’ve estimated out of the 964 taken early: 200 are recruited athletes, (a lot of them are also legacy) out of the 750 left, 250 are probably legacy, 350 are URM…unhooked probably only about 300. Another way I analyzed it was they will take 50 people from every docket. Take 10 off for RA. that makes 40, 20 off for URM, so thats 20. 10 females and 10 males if you are not in a hooked group. YIKES
@cmc1999 300 spots for unhooked / 6500 applicants is around 4.5%, so no different than regular decision.
2 weeks!!
Do people even get in REA without an interview? I can’t recall seeing anyone without one being accepted in past year’s threads and the fact that I haven’t gotten one kind of tells me I’m getting deferred at this point.
@dreamthief001 @cmc1999 I think it is lower than 300
@x2019x i was going off of @cmc1999 's caclulations. as far as i know, harvard doesn’t publish official numbers like those, so their guess is as good as any. though, according to court documents, the legacy admissions rate is only aorund 40%. obviously much high than for others applicants, but not like every legacy who applies is a sure admit.
no, I would say there is zero percent chance of ANYONE getting in without an interview.
@dreamthief001 @cmc1999 would you consider a strong spike a hook or is this only like first gen, urm, low income?