Hey guys,
I was wondering if anybody here knew the contact info for the Harvard regional admissions officer for Massachusetts. When I went to visit I got a business card but I can’t seem to find it now.
Thanks!
Harvard gives every admitted student a list of Admissions Officers and the regions they cover along with their email addresses, just in case students/parents have any questions.
However, Harvard does NOT make that information available to applicants, as regional admissions officers do not want their inboxes filled with questions or updates from potential students. If you have a question, you should call Admissions directly or send an email through their website: https://college.harvard.edu/contact-us
FWIW: From the list of Admissions Officers my daughter was given 6 years ago (and no I will not send that information in a private message to anyone), Massachusetts was covered by 8 different Regional Admissions Officers, each covering a specific area of the state.
I was too late to add this to the previous post: If your high school has had multiple acceptances to Harvard, then your guidance counselor/college office at your high school has the name and email address of your Regional Admissions Officer. You could ask your guidance counselor for that information, but I doubt they will give it to you as your GC probably doesn’t want to get on Admissions’ bad side for giving out that information.
@gibby I have read of people emailing the general admissions email and asking for the contact info for their regional officers, and they’ve received the info. I get why they wouldn’t want that public, but I think you can find it if you ask.
^^ Good to know. Then, the OP should email or call Admissions and try get the name and email address of their Regional AO.
What’s hilarious about @gibby 's list posted above is that it fails to indicate the coverage for some pretty important areas of the state, both generally and in terms of Harvard’s community. Places like, say, the city of Boston, or a number of its affluent, high-educational-attainment suburbs (e.g., Newton, Brookline, Weston, Lexington, Wellesley . . . ) I’m sure someone is attending to applicants from those areas.
@JHS: It’s a New England thing. By definition, I believe ‘Old Colony’ encompasses Boston and the surrounding suburbs such as Newton, Brookline, Weston, Wellesley etc.
I have never heard those places referred to as “Old Colony.” I thought “Old Colony” was more the area between Boston and Taunton or Plymouth (although I will admit I don’t understand all the lines between that and “South Shore” or “Southeastern Massachusetts”).
Of course, it hardly matters. I was just having fun. It would make fine sense if, say, Lexington, Lincoln, and Weston were part of the “Concord” territory (but not quite as much sense for “Concord/North Shore”). Perhaps, from the perspective of Harvard, they are all “Central Massachusetts” (with “Western Massachusetts” beginning somewhere east of Worcester). And I am morally certain Boston and Brookline get covered somewhere!
ETA Found this on the website of the Old Colony History Museum in Taunton. “Old Colony” definitely excludes Boston, and everywhere west and north of it.
In my mind, Old Colony is synonymous with Plymouth County. Anyway, I think we have to assume that Boston is covered in one of those categories. 