<p>I did not apply, nor was I warranted in doing so, however I must say this is truly shocking on so many different levels. What the hell could have happened for them to make such an irratic move at this stage in the game? Really a slap in the face to those who put all that money/time/worry into the application process.</p>
<p>Yea I did not apply to harvard, but I do feel for those who did. They could have easily noticed the lack of dorms months ago ( unless some people who were soppose to graduate could not, which means harvard 4 year graduation rate is getting worse lol). But yea its unfair for some of your who had to waste money on sending scores, we should all leave negative feedback on harvard for this, and hopefully NEXT years rankings we can bump harvard to three bc of this. WHO IS WITH ME?????</p>
<p>Wow I feel for you guys even though I didn't apply. I'm sure if you were all applying to Harvard you are either already at a great school, or are going to be transferring to another one, so don't feel too down about it. At least you guys can say you applied to Harvard and didn't get rejected. Most people never even dream of even applying there. I wish you all the best and again I'm sorry to hear about this terrible situation.</p>
<p>I think this situation needs to be remedied ASAP, i.e. BEFORE any money is returned. I think if there is a mass-volume of people calling/writing to the Harvard AdCom, then it could possibly help them realize what exactly they did by totally messing up our plans and wasting our dollars (sending scores, etc etc)</p>
<p>It might be politically incorrect to say this: but they simply don't care.</p>
<p>I didn't even feel sad or mad, I just wished I gave their slot to another institution.</p>
<p>The respect I once had for Harvard just dropped</p>
<p>about 10 notches.</p>
<p>I think redtape is on to something. It's well known that transfers are the least important students at big schools(at least until you are accepted); I think that a lot of other schools would have been more tactful about it and wouldn't have waited until well after the admissions season was well underway. </p>
<p>Again, I'm really sorry for those of you that had your heart set on Harvard, I know how I would feel if suddenly I knew that I wasn't even going to be considered at my #1 choice.</p>
<p>^^ Ever wonder why I have the screen name I have on this college admission oriented forum? Yes I'm a cynic, but an optimistic one at that. ;)</p>
<p>someone with power and influence should pressure harvard into rescinding its announcement - at least for this year. </p>
<p>i mean, even taking in 10 students is good enough. stanford only admits 20 transfers last year - i'm not complaining.</p>
<p>they should be fair about this - the number of people harvard ends up accepting is not important - but they should at least review all our apps and accept a handful or as many as they can afford to do so for this year. </p>
<p>Any one with me? i'm going to pressure harvard to reconsider its announcement. maybe if all of us do it, it might just work.</p>
<p>I just sent them an email asking them to reconsider this action and to consider our applications (and maybe even accept fewer students than last year).</p>
<p>All who applied to HARVARD, PLEASE send them an email or call them ----------- If a lot of students write/call them, maybe, we can persuade them to change their minds-------</p>
<p>But we should hurry---before they start refunding the fees-</p>
<p>Inquiries need to be made, heads need to roll because of this SNAFU. Somebody needs to get fired, because somebody within the Harvard administration is NOT doing his/her job. This is complete BS to the people who took the countless hours to track down professors, write essays, and visit the campus.</p>
<p>which is why i'm saying, someone with power and influence should voice out against this and pressure harvard into rescinding the announcement. i can't do anything coz i'm a nobody, but i'm sure someone in this forum will have the power and influence to do something.</p>
<p>this is completely unacceptable. it's like a bad joke. i feel that i'm being led on.</p>
<p>It's beyond a joke, it's a show of disrespect and complete RUBBISH on behalf of the Harvard Admissions Committee. I urge you all to write for your right to be considered. </p>
<p>WRITE TO THE AD COM AND EXPRESS YOUR ANGUISH. YOU SPENT MONEY AND TIME, and NOW THEY NEED TO DO THE SAME!</p>
<p>i didn't even apply to harvard to transfer, but i know a few who did and they were their first choice schools and had amazing stats. i can only imagine how they are feeling, and i gotta say, that's incredibly tactless to do this in the middle of the transfer application process.</p>
<p>this won't help to make anyone feel better, but the probable reason they are announcing this now is they are anticipating that they will be oversubscribed with the incoming freshman class [whose acceptances thay are now finalizing] It's probably better to announce this now than in May, after all the freshman acceptances come in.</p>
<p>I think I'm going to print out the e-mail and put it up on my wall.</p>
<p>writing to express yourself might not do any good. they'll probably receive so much hate mail that they'll just chunk it.</p>
<p>i think transfer applicants still need to send email indicating how serious mistake that Harvard has made, and who knows, they might reconsider. I just sent an email to them on behalf of my brother, who has worked very hard on his Harvard applications while studying abroad.
At least for this year, applicants have rights to be considered (even if this means all rejections)</p>
<p>are they going to refund your admissions fees? I admit, this is really cruel. I mean it's not like they couldn't re-evaluate their residential situation before the transfer deadline.</p>
<p>That is awful, I am very sorry for all that applied to Harvard this year.</p>
<p>I am upset with this, but for different reasons. I wonder how this will effect the transfer rates of other top-level schools. I would imagine all those interested in transferring to Harvard will be going to competing schools, thereby driving the already low acceptance rates lower...</p>