<p>i'll seriously brag to anyone i see. i'll be like... "HARVARD ACKNOWLEDGED MY EXISTENCE!" anybody else hoping for a spot on the waitlist?</p>
<p>i'll have a bumper sticker saying:</p>
<p>HARVARD Waitlist(Class) of 2010</p>
<p>i wouldnt go so far as to say id be happy, but i guess i would have to take their acknowledgement of my existence as a compliment</p>
<p>haha i'll be proud too :)</p>
<p>haha me too =)</p>
<p>I'll be very proud of you.</p>
<p>I'd be more happy with an acceptance :). I won't hold my breath for a waitlist....</p>
<p>I personally wouldn't mind being z-listed (being admitted for the class of 2011, thus having to take a year off before attending), even though it is largely reserved for legacies. I probably could benefit from a year off before college.</p>
<p>This happened to my friend last year, who was NOT a legacy, but she chose Dartmouth over the Harvard Z-list.</p>
<p>I guess a z-list is better than waitlist is better in some ways, you're actually guaranteed a spot. Does Harvard have spring admits (people who are admitted but forced to wait until the second semester next year to actually begin)?</p>
<p>I have this strange premonition that I'll be z-listed since I'm young, but I hope not. Due too my timezone by the time I wake up tomorrow, the e-mail should have arrived.</p>
<p>And so ends the saga of college admissions. I'd have to say I'd be satisfied with my scholarships from UMD and all their elite programs. Then again, maybe I'm just trying to psychologically prepare myself for a rejection. Who knows, tonight on the bus I sat behind a guy wearing a Harvard sweatshirt. First time I've ever seen Harvard apparel here... a sign?</p>
<p>Oh heh, and related to the topic... I know someone here who has a friend who is a lawyer who has his waitlist-letter framed and hung up on the wall of his office.</p>
<p>Hahaha, I was happy when I wasn't one of the 200 flat out rejected EA ("Hey Mom! I didn't apply as a practical joke and have no prison record!")</p>
<p>So waitlisted would be like Christmas.</p>
<p>how many people can they put on the waitlist?</p>
<p>Pure academics wise, there are so many more qualified applicants to Harvard so yeah... I'll feel proud to be wait listed too -- that means they loved my ECs and thought I was interesting... haha</p>
<p>The thing with being waitlisted is you really have no clue whether you may get in or not. For Harvard, some years they've accepted more than a 100 from the waitlists, and some years they've accepted none.</p>
<p>You guys used too many insider words. What is Z-list?</p>
<p>Harvard typically waitlists "several hundred" applicants. My understanding is that this number can approach 1,000.</p>
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<p>The Z-List is a special form of acceptance where a student is accepted for the year following that for which they applied. Usually only legacies are offered put on it, but there are probably cases of non-legacies being put on the Z-List as well.</p>
<p>There was an article in Golf Magazine a few years back about a kid who was put on the Z-List and decided to spend his gap year in Scottland working at St. Andrews as a caddy and studying at the University of St. Andrews (or something like that).</p>
<p>Anyway, chances are that we probably won't see any here. But you never know.</p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Any one knows how many in wait list got in every year?</p>
<p>what's the point of having a waitlist that holds 1000 students...</p>
<p>with such a high enrollment rate, i must add.</p>
<p>I was a non-legacy applicant who was put on the Z-list off the waitlist last year. I'm taking my year off right now. Good luck everyone!</p>