<p>Did anyone else get this in the mail? It has a Common application and a letter stating they want me to apply for the college.</p>
<p>Is this a a sign that i have good chances of being accepted to Harvard?</p>
<p>OR is it just marketing? : /</p>
<p>sorry, its marketing for the most part. I got the same thing only to get waitlisted. So bear in mind that this does not mean you will get accepted. It is how Harvard manages to get so many qualified applicants. But look on the bright side, you probably scored high enough on your PSAT/SAT to be on their radar, and it definitely doesn’t hurt.</p>
<p>I didn’t get one 
I should probably take them off my list since at my school we are only allowed to apply to 6-8 schools. I did get a letter from Yale and Princeton. 35 on act and nmsf, #1 or 2 in my class etc…so sad so sad</p>
<p>I did not get a letter, but I really don’t think that it means too much as far as your admission chances. Floridahopeful: I definitely wouldn’t give up on Harvard just because you didn’t get a letter saying you can apply. Don’t let the letters sway your decision.</p>
<p>“. . . since at my school we are only allowed to apply to 6-8 schools. . .”</p>
<p>It bugs me to see schools that do that to their students. Why not just allow them to apply to everywhere they want to apply? Sorry, just venting a little about that.</p>
<p>Sirensong: thnxs for the encouragement, I just don’t want to waste a “spot” if I can help it. Peytoncline: My school thinks that the return on only applying to 6-8 schools is greater (more time to spend on each application). It makes it really hard on me since I am a math/science person who could go tech or liberal arts. Isn’t this fun!!!</p>
<p>See this article for context: </p>
<p>[Online</a> Extra: How Harvard Gets its Best and Brightest](<a href=“Bloomberg Businessweek - Bloomberg”>Bloomberg Businessweek - Bloomberg)</p>
<p>Hey I got in and didn’t receive anything. Don’t read anything into it.</p>
<p>70% of the kids at Harvard got one … which obviously means 30% of kids at Harvard did not. </p>
<p>70% of Harvard’s class is 1120 (1344 kids when adjusted for people who turn down Harvard’s offer - I applied an enrollment rate of 80%) people who get letter who get accepted.</p>
<p>70 thousand people get letters, assuming everyone who gets a letter applies (which is unlikely but anyhow)</p>
<p>that equals an acceptance rate of 1.9 % …</p>
<p>More competitive than the applicant pool that actually applies.</p>
<p>So congratulations on getting your letter (I got mine today) but I doubt it is significant as I hope it is. But who knows maybe we will be off to Harvard next year ! I am keeping my spirits up !</p>
<p>I remember my daughter got some sort of letter from Harvard and also from Princeton. I don’t remember an application with it but it has been a long year.</p>
<p>First, it of course is a compliment to you that you did something that merited getting on one of the mailing lists. As for significance and being accepted to Harvard because of the letter, we did not give it much weight. By that point that we got Harvard’s letter, D was getting letters/brochures from colleges on a regular basis by that point. I assumed it was a marketing ploy. The more applications a school receives the more selective the percentage of accepted students gets to be. The irony was at the time D received the letter, she had eliminated Harvard from her list. It was not until the last second that she had a changed of heart and added it on. Maybe we would have been more excited and felt differently about the letter had we been excited about Harvard at the time.</p>
<p>To attract as many excellent applicants as possible, Harvard casts a wide net, that’s based on SAT and ACT scores and similar things. Getting such a letter doesn’t mean you’re on a fast track to Harvard. I’d bet that not only do most accepted students get such letters, but most rejected students probably got such letters.</p>
<p>Both of my sons got invitations and even phone calls from Harvard encouraging them to apply. That was because their SAT scores were 98th-99th percentile. They didn’t apply, however, because they knew that even though they were legacies, since their unweighted gpas were 3.0 and lower, they had zilch chances of being accepted.</p>
<p>Apply to Harvard if you believe you’d be fulfilled there, but make sure you also have match and safety schools that you love and can afford.</p>
<p>I got in, but didn’t get one and I am a un-hooked white male. Don’t worry too much about it one way or another.</p>
<p>I just received a Harvard College Common Application in the mail today. Are they supposed to come this early, and when can I send it by? I’m not even sure if I want to apply yet, and I will only have 2 SAT II’s by the end of this year, when the application requires 3.</p>
<p>The common app is not “officially” out until july 1st, and i guess harvard just sent theirs out early. Send it in during the fall of 2009 not now or in the summer, and take an sat II in the fall as well. How did u get the app btw?</p>
<p>I received it as well. I did not send them any requests or information, so I am assuming this is based off of previous test scores.</p>
<p>I received the same thing today in the mail and it is based off of previous test scores. However, I don’t know whether the Common App included is legit since Common App has specifically stated that they would not put up applications until July 1. With that said, perhaps Harvard has an “in” with the Common App people and is allowed to distribute theirs early. At the top of the Common App section, it did point out that this application was for Fall 2010 enrollment.</p>
<p>the common application look exactly the same pretty much every year and is not expected to change any time soon. july 1st is when they open the accounts again, thats all.</p>
<p>What SAT scores did people who received the letters get, if you wouldn’t mind sharing?</p>
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<p>Actually, the Common Application changes a little bit each year, and it HAD to change this year (for 2010 applicants) because of a federal regulation on ethnicity and race data collection. But it appears the link that was just kindly shared by another participant in this forum </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/forms/complete_application_0910.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/forms/complete_application_0910.pdf</a> </p>
<p>is current with the proposed changes in the Common Application </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/forms/complete_application_0910.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/forms/complete_application_0910.pdf</a> </p>
<p>(the draft form highlights the proposed changes for this new admission cycle). </p>
<p>Good luck to all of you who are applying this year.</p>
<p>I received one as well… and I’ve never released my SAT scores, so I’m assuming they were based on PSAT.</p>