<p>i met dean fitzsimmons and had a meeting with him in the office at cambridge. thoughts as to how this will affect admission decision?</p>
<p>No clue, no idea. </p>
<p>Depends on how you met him. Did you barge into his office swinging a sack of doorknobs, or did your grandfather’s senator friends call in a few favors? </p>
<p>I’m joking, but without knowing the circumstances of your visit, this could only be ridiculous speculation at best.</p>
<p>on advice from a harvard grad alum, we wrote fitz a letter about coming to visit the campus. he invited my family and i to meet with him and he brought us into his office for about an hour and he and i (not just my parents) had a long conversation about ice hockey (he played, and i play now) and my future plans (chemical engineering).</p>
<p>How nice of him. I’ll have to say it’ll increase your chances of acceptance some. If your applications gets to the deliberating table (generally the final step), and if he remembers your name.</p>
<p>You should ask yourself why you’re asking rhetorical questions.</p>
<p>I’ll give you the response you’re looking for: “OMG***LOL, BBQ MISSILE, I’m so jealous!”</p>
<p>I’m wondering if your post is for real or if you’re a ■■■■■. The story doesn’t add up to me.</p>
<p>i’m sorry, i know i’m not being very specific. will more facts help?</p>
<p>i first met fitz at a harvard-princeton-uva event in my home state–very brief, “hi i’m interested in harvard”, nothing more. a few months later i met the aforementioned harvard grad alum who works as a ‘student-athlete adviser’ for varsity ice hockey players such as myself. upon giving him my academic stats (ranked top 3% out of 322, 4.38 gpaw, 3.94 gpauw, 10 APs by may 2010, jeopardy! teen tournament finalist) and telling him that we had briefly met fitz at that admissions event, he suggested we write a letter about coming to visit the campus. we did so, and we were invited to poke our heads in his office when we came up to cambridge. we ended up in his office talking for about an hour, he saw my academic stats, and that’s it.</p>
<p>i know it sounds odd to have a meeting like that, which is why i came here to see if anyone could shed any light on such an unusual situation.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine this possibly hurting you in some way, unless the meeting went badly.</p>