Hi everyone
I’m an Italian citizen and will graduate high school in Italy.
However, I’m also a green card holder since two years. (Wyoming resident!)
How will Harvard evaluate me? In the context of Italian or Wyoming students?
Does it make sense for me to apply REA? Or will I likely be deferred so they can compare me to more Italians?
I’ve seen that Harvard College accepts around 2-3 Italian students each year.
(I don’t know if that influences anything, but I apply with my Wyoming address)
For classification purposes, you will probably be considered as a U.S. dual citizen. This from last year’s Admissions announcement:: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/04/harvard-college-admits-1990/
@gibby So would you say this slightly improves my chances because they wouldn’t include me to those 2 “limited” italians/year?
Yes, but ever so slightly, up to the overall 5.9%. International applicants generally have an acceptance rate of half that of domestic applicants.
@skieurope thanks for your answer!
The Harvard website says this:
"We are often asked by prospective students, ‘Do you count me as an international applicant?’ Because applicants from outside the United States go through the same admissions process as American students, we do not categorize individual applicants in such a way. We have no quotas of any kind for admission, all applications are evaluated by the same holistic criteria, and financial aid is equally available to all students regardless of citizenship.
“When we refer to ‘international admissions,’ we are generally referring to applicants who apply from schools outside the United States.”
https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/application-process/international-applicants
So, I think the poster would be an internayinal applicant, but according to this, it doesn"t matter. The emphasis is the location of the school from which one is applying. Citizenship is not important.
^^ Given Admissions’ announcement of 7.7% US dual citizens as an individual category – separate from internationals students and domestic applicants – I would think that dual citizenship is important and does matter. I’m not sure of the level of importance though.
This might be a question to contact Admissions with, as there would seem to be a big difference between an international student from Italy and a US resident of Wyoming. One possibility is that it might be like going to boarding school here in the US. If you attend Phillips Exeter Academy, but live in Wyoming, you would be considered as applying from New Hampshire, although Admissions would know your parents lived in Wyoming from the information listed on the Common Application.
I think that the reason Harvard views someone, even an American ciyizen, applying from an Italian school as being an international applicant is that they need to look at the applicant’s academic record in the context of the school that he actually attended… It gets too difficult to continually slice the pie to say, yes but really, his category is “American citizen in an Italian school.” I think they note the number of dual citizens !.) because it’s something to count, and 2.) it makes them a little more cosmopolitan.