<p>Yeah, mine doesn’t work either. Hmm…</p>
<p>^This was previously addressed. Poster earlier said that the site was down and that log-in failure does not reflect your application status (according to Adcom).</p>
<p>@Felix: thanks for clarifying. Appreciate it!</p>
<p>So are decisions [rejections] coming out this Tuesday? If so that’s a bit earlier than usual.</p>
<p>Cypriot - are you able to get onto the Harvard site with your access code? I’m trying to figure out if there people that got off the waitlist and accepted can still get into the website</p>
<p><a href=“https://admweb.fas.harvard.edu/ha/Applicant/ApplicantFrame.html[/url]”>https://admweb.fas.harvard.edu/ha/Applicant/ApplicantFrame.html</a></p>
<p>[High</a> yield for Class of ?15 | Harvard Gazette](<a href=“http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/05/high-yield-for-class-of-’15-2/]High”>High yield for Class of ’15 – Harvard Gazette)</p>
<p>it says here 77% of the admitted students accepted, so theyre only gonna take 10-15 of the waitlisted students… which is like 1%. I really wanted to go soo bad haha. I guess its a life experience. Oh well. Cornell should be fun too :)</p>
<p>^ Hey! I am enrolled at Cornell as well.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ve ever used my access code, but I’m pretty sure I entered the right one. It said the combination is not valid, but I’m not sure if that’s what you’re talking about. I’ve yet to receive the access code retrieval email I requested, so my guess is that the server was taken down?</p>
<p>To clarify, I wasn’t z-listed and I don’t have legacy.</p>
<p>ETA: just kidding, just received my code. Still doesn’t work though, so yeah.</p>
<p>^Cypriot, you’re still suspish to me… especially with that post (nothing personal unless you’re an actual ■■■■■).</p>
<p>Haha, be as suspicious as you like? It’s not really my problem if you don’t believe me, I just thought I’d post as everyone was freaking out about when/how/what was going to happen. You can ask me anything that might allay your suspicions, though.</p>
<p>The result is all the same to me. :3</p>
<p>(And I’m not active enough on these forums to know, but if you’re attending Harvard next year and you meet a girl who came off the waitlist, ask her if she’s Cypriot and maybe - just maybe - she’ll be like ‘Yeah, man, I’m ****ing Cypriot.’)</p>
<p>Royce,</p>
<p>Reading your post finally inspired me to get over my long CC creeperism and create an account to post. I’m on the waitlist too, and going through this whole process, realizing what I have, I’ll start by saying lots of smart kids go to Harvard. Lots of them. Good, smart kids who have worked hard and have chosen to attend Harvard as the pinnacle of their high school career. That being said, it’s a travesty that American society thinks of college admissions in this way. It’s unfortunate that people feel that going to Harvard is the best thing just because they’re led to believe. Lots of those good, smart, hard-working kids will have been better off at other places. Better opportunities, a better social environment, better friends: whatever it was, society could well have screwed them into something that will not ultimately be the best for them. Maybe it’s providence that you’re going to Cornell. Maybe if you’d gone to Harvard (or MIT for that matter) you simply would not have had the same teachers or the same opportunity that launches you into the happiness of the lifetime that follows. </p>
<p>In reality, being a cool person in life depends on one’s ability to rise of this trivial bs. As hard as for us to believe right now, the coolest people alive are the one’s that step back and say f*** this, I don’t need this. Happiness should not be external. Honestly man, I’m being straight with you. People are messed up for genuinely believing that a committee of (underachieving?) people at a some hyped-up college can legitimately appraise you as a person. This is not mere consolation; this is the truth. At the end of the day, it’s all you. Tell this to people when you give your last speech. Make them who you are, what you know you are. If need be take it with a chip on your shoulder. Have you ever watched Michael Jordan’s Hall of Fame acceptance speech? If you’ve got some time while you’re waiting for a call from Harvard, get a sense of the way of the way he used things to fuel himself. Dick Schaap, one of my idols and a Cornell grad, wrote about sports and the concept of duwende (not quite sure how it’s spelled), but it’s all about manifesting your internal drive in confidence. Your cool. </p>
<p>Best of luck. [YouTube</a> - Common - Be (Intro)](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>@adh843 and everyone else</p>
<p>Thank you for your kindly messages. Despite what you might think otherwise, reading these personal messages are really helpful and inspiring to me.
I mean it will take a while before I finally become settled, but I think I will be fine.</p>
<p>Here is what I thought about for the past few weeks:</p>
<p>I came up with this as sort of an argument to make myself feel better, but here it is.
Assuming that college admission process isn’t entirely unfair (some might believe it is unfair but I think it’s safe to assume it is for now), let say that it’s fair. By fair, I mean this: when it comes down to the admission oficers making the last choices, it is really up to chance, and lot of people would agree. It might be that one band instrument that you play that could tip you over, it could be that just somehow this year, more Ethiopians applied, maybe they had too many guys this year, etc etc…at that final level, it’s safe to assume it is based on chance, at least from our perspective since we never get to know what goes inside the office.</p>
<p>Now accepting that it is fair (might not be true but I think it’s fine), whether I get admitted is like a roll of die. Being disappointed about getting rejected is like getting disappointed about roling something other than a six on a roll - but why should I be disappointed about that? That wasn’t my fault. And that was more likely after all - 5/6.
Similarly, getting accepted is like roling a six by chance on a roll of die. </p>
<p>Thinking this way, it’s funny how some event of chance could have made me all much happier ("OMG I got into XXX! " and which probably would have kept me excited for months and beyond), when in fact… when we think about it… it’s actually kind of stupid. (I don’t mean to be negative to all those who got accepted. You all deserve it). Why should I be so excited about rolling a six on a die? When I really think about it, the belief that going to Harvard, Princeton, whatever will somehow necessarly be a wonderfully different expereince is a silly idea. </p>
<p>Like you said, it’s a committe after all. How dare does that committee judge who I am, and how well qualified I am? I’m not saying that I was the perfect candidate, nor that there is nothing I could have done better. I know perfectly well that I had a lot of holes to fill and that I may have done many things differently in highschool. But I have lived my life the way I have chosen (for the most parts), and if a college rejects me based on that, perhaps based on something other than myself, that is no grounds for me to feel disappointed.</p>
<p>Sorry for posting something not directly related to the Waitlist room, but hopefully my anaology above makes someone else who is waitlisted/rejected feel more relieved as well.</p>
<p>got my email today… guess i wont be attending :(</p>
<p>same. well, grad school is where it’s more important so i’ll be working towards that now :)</p>
<p>same here! i would’ve probably stuck with Stanford anyway though :)</p>
<p>Just got rejected. But that doesn’t matter much as I’ve come to love UPenn, :)</p>
<p>can everyone who was accepted off the waitlist post their intended majors?</p>
<p>Biology or math, but that will probably change after my gap year. Good luck to all, whatever you decide to do. You are an awesome group with stellar credentials and all the makings for a happy, successful future!</p>
<p>mybichon, does this gap year mean that you were offered a spot on the z list?</p>
<p>Yes, I received a call last week offering me a place in the class of 2016 (though the term “z-list” is never mentioned). Since Harvard was my #1 choice, I didn’t have to think twice about their request that I take a gap year. Now, I am so grateful to H for opening my eyes to the possibilities. I’ve already connected with current H students who have already taken a gap year, and without exception, they said they would not have had it any other way. I guess things happen for a reason!</p>