<p>if you are from an area that has a lot of admittees already, then are your chances of being accepted off the waitlist smaller?</p>
<p>Im in the same boat…AP Lit tmrw…■■■ lol</p>
<p>i totally no longer see the point in doing my APs…Im from canada so like im headed to a Canadian uni unless harvard or princeton take sme off their wait list</p>
<p>correct me if im wrong (cause i dun have APs at my school, im just taking them on my own)…does it matter at thispoint how we do on the APs and whether we do them or not?</p>
<p>Three questions from someone else on the waitlist. First, are you sure it happens by telephone? Second, do they send out rejections to people on the waitlist before the entire waitlist process is over? Third, if the answer to my second question is “yes,” how do they send out those rejections. Best of luck to all of you (though not really 
), and good luck to everyone else taking the lit/comp exam on Thursday or Euro on Friday (5 this week 
, but none next week for me).</p>
<p>Four years ago, Cornell’s was by phone and then they followed up appropriately with a letter. If you said yes on the phone, you were “accepted”. If you said no, they sent you a rejection letter. I have always wondered if this was a method for protecting any documentation of their statistics. No formal record of acceptances off the waitlist unless the acceptee said yes.</p>
<p>AP’s really don’t matter at this point except in a few cases: 1) a 5 on a language AP fulfills the language requirement and you will not have to start a new language unless you choose to 2) in a few cases 5’s can place you into a higher-level class, but there are placement exams during orientation for this very purpose; to the best of my knowledge they are mandatory 3) enough 5’s on AP’s could qualify you for advanced standing, whereby you can graduate in 3 years with a bachelors degree or 4 years with a masters; I think most people decline the option to experience the 4 years as teddy roosevelt did… ^_^</p>
<p>If you are from a high-yield area, you chances are smaller if Harvard needs a geographic pool for sure; however, they didn’t place you on the waitlist because of where you live; you have some other talent which actually contributes to academic diversity, so there is nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>Past events suggest this timeline for waitlist acceptees: 1) a call to home 2) a call to the cell phone 3) an email to organize a time to call…somewhere 4) if accepted, a short period to think it over (not more than a week) 5) email to confirm acceptance if matriculating 6) “big envelope packet” by snailmail within the week 7)email access within the week of the acceptance packet or the week after
If you deny an offer, apparently, or you just don’t make it off, they send you a “letter of unadmitability” by snail mail for closure.</p>
<p>–a fellow Harvard waitlistee</p>
<p>Haha wow, music how do you know so much about this?</p>
<p>And are they seriously going to start calling Friday, or is it for sure next Friday?</p>
<p>hm so,
if all the kids (3 students) from my country accepted H’s offer and is going to harvard</p>
<p>then i have slim chance of getting off the waitlist??</p>
<p>Mine is a normal to slightly below average yield area.
If you google " “Harvard club of” waitlist " (with quotes) you can see how many are on the waiting list; some give stats. Looking at that, if proportions are consistent with what I saw, and there were… 2046 admits, there should be around 2150 offered spots on the waiting list. 2/3 would be 1440, more or less. so we will see.</p>
<p>1991 - Yes! there is hope. I think interviewing committee picks top contenders then regional admit officer takes those names back for I guess…special consideration?</p>
<p>attenuation - I think having many admits from your area does decrease your chances, since they’re less likely to admit many from one area as it wouldn’t lend much to “diversity”</p>
<p>There are 3 waitlisted kids in my physics class alone (that’s everyone who applied in that class). I know of at least one more from my school and also one admit. More waitlisted kids from the other schools in our area I’m sure (maybe even admits?). My area doesn’t even offer good education…</p>
<p>@ helloitsme- if you actually meant to type country, then yes. your chances are probably very slim unless you have some special talent for which they accepted others who then declined harvard’s offer.</p>
<p>aghhh darnnn :(</p>
<p>so are harvard announcements really going to being tomorrow or what?</p>
<p>yeahh what’s the deal… are they just starting deliberations tomorrow or are they actually letting people know?</p>
<p>Round one of deliberations starts tomorrow. A few people will probably be notified immediately (May 8th), while others will not. I thought that I read somewhere that waitlisted students could be notified as late as July, so you may have to wait a while longer before hearing a final decision. </p>
<p>In addition, I suggest looking at the Class of 2012 Waitlist thread to get a better idea of last year’s trends. Many students who were waitlisted last year, posted to say they were accepted (or rejected). The date on these posts would be a good indicator of when waitlistees start receiving decisions as well as when acceptance notifications start to taper off.</p>
<p>I just mailed in my waitlist letter (with new achievements/reaffirming interesting in Harvard) today. Would this be too late to make a difference, or will they still consider it in the process?</p>
<p>Soo… the yield may come out tomorrow 
?</p>
<p>Unless an admissions officer sees his or her shadow, in which case there are 6 more weeks of waiting.</p>
<p>upon receiving the call from the admissions officer, are you allowed to ask for time to speak with your family etc on the opportunity??</p>
<p>^ I think it varies. Anything from on the spot to a few days - probably no more than a week though from what I’ve read.
Looking at the Princeton WL thread for reference, kids have been getting about 5 days to decide.</p>