<p>I basically have this superstition that if you visit a top school you'll get rejected. My basis for this superstition is seeing a bunch of last year's seniors visit Harvard and Stanford and Yale and all of them get rejected. The only person from our school that got into Harvard didn't visit until after she got accepted. </p>
<p>Do you guys think this is true? Current students, did you visit during your junior or senior year before you got accepted?</p>
<p>Haha I noticed that trend with a couple of my friends last year. Hope it’s not true…</p>
<p>Then my daughter especially should not have been admitted since she visited twice before applying.</p>
<p>That’s great news… now I can visit my sister there without the fear of guaranteed rejection when it’s my turn to apply. That is, of course, not saying that I will be guaranteed to be accepted, but at least I’ll still have a shot. LOL</p>
<p>What are you talking about? All I know is that the only way to get into Harvard is to lick John Harvard’s foot.</p>
<p>Isn’t that the foot that everyone pees on when they’re drunk?</p>
<p>it is, dwight was having fun with you. :)</p>
<p>Well, did Dwight visit Harvard before he got accepted?</p>
<p>Yes. 10char</p>
<p>Considering that the acceptance rate is only 7% you could probably find strong correlations between people eating Chinese food and not being admitted, people wearing green and not being admitted, people taking German and not being admitted, etc.</p>
<p>^^ But I eat Chinese food AND wear green AND I TOOK GERMAN. :(</p>
<p>I’m sure that about 92.5 percent of people that visit Yale get rejected. So, yeah. I’m sure it’s pretty much true.</p>
<p>Yeah only 7% get into Harvard, so I mean do the math and most people who visit won’t get in? If it makes you feel better, almost everyone I know here visited before attending, so maybe that’s enough to eliminate your superstition.</p>
<p>That is a good example of Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc.</p>
<p>This summer, a lot of people ****ed on the foot of John Harvard (and after having walked past the tour so many frickin times, it isn’t actually John Harvard.</p>
<p>I swear every time I saw someone touch the foot I broke out in fits of laughter. I really don’t know why so many people flock to the statue without knowing that people **** on it because they can’t stand the tourists.</p>
<p>Double negative, smoda.</p>
<p>Honestly, the average kitchen counter is probably more dangerous to touch than the pee-infused podium of a thrice-lying statue.</p>
<p>pretty sure your sample size doesn’t count for much…still, fun to consider!</p>