@nijusohc She’s not the guidance counselor at my school but yes, she somehow just learned of who got in. I think. My mom just quickly called me on the phone so I didn’t really get to ask all the questions I should have.
@bruhinterviewme I know for sure students don’t get updates on their portals before 12/13 at 7pm… huh
I mean, unless theres some glitch or some but I doubt that’ll happen
I don’t think you have your facts straight. Maybe she’s talking about Cornell or Stanford. This is how rumors get started.
Zip, zero, zilch, nada.
Actually, it does matter which concentration you apply. Recently released court document shows that from the most difficult to the easiest the order was as follow (from 2005 to 2015):
CS/Eng 4.4%< Bio Science 5.2% < Social Sci 5.9% < Physical Sci 6.2% < Undecided 6.3% < math 6.9% < humanities 7.4%
Correlation does not imply causation.
@harper3125 I’m pretty sure my facts are straight. I believe that guidance counselors are privy to this kind of knowledge before students are informed. Is this correct, @skieurope?
Wait why is it so hard to get into engineering wth @jzducol I mean I get that engineering is not an easy field, but also if you have the right EC’s, shouldn’t it be about equal???
Because everyone thinks Harvard needs engineers :). But they have a very small engineering program.
I’ve been asked this question before, and my answer is the same. No, IMO, GCs are not privy to this information, and certainly not 2 days before. And for an GC to be discussing non-public results with a random person? Umm, I think the rules of Fight Club apply.
So I know that the engineering program is very small, but I also assumed that less engineering students apply than, say, humanities students. @jzducol
@skieurope Not an admissions officer, a guidance counselor at a high school.
@bruhinterviewme There is a 0% change that Harvard told any GC who they are admitting. Now, maybe the GC is reading tea leaves based on H requesting XYZ, but that would be that GC speculating. And BTW, it’s pretty unprofessional for any GC to gossip about students. Sounds like an unprofessional GC spreading unsubstantiated gossip.
@leahgriffith123 if you have the ECs to back up your passion and great essays, it should never be a problem
"So I know that the engineering program is very small, but I also assumed that less engineering students apply than, say, humanities students. "
Fitzsimmon said he had seen a surge of applicants with interest in CS/Eng in recent years. He indicated in the court testimony that he felt those kids would end up happily at MIT and Caltech anyway.
Sorry, that’s what I meant. Trying to do too many things at once. I’ve corrected my text.
@jzducol Wait but that sucks because I really like Caltech and MIT, but Harvard is my #1. It’s like saying “We’ll just deny a bunch more humanities students because they’d be happy at Georgetown.” I mean sure, Georgetown is great, but Harvard is my favorite. You know what I mean?
Even for government studies Harvard seems to have something to offer that Georgetown doesn’t. The freshman class of (newly elected) US Congress just had their orientation at Harvard this week, not Georgetown.
Regarding CS/Eng: here is my .02. Harvard is a liberal arts college. They are educating THINKERS. You can take Math and Eng anywhere, multivariate calculus is the SAME whether you learn it at H, at MIT, at community college or online.You don’t NEED harvard, and Harvard knows this. Not only that, you would be better off at most science and eng. schools despite that fact that Harvard has augmented those departments.