<p>wait where did anyone hear that for freshman application an interview is an indicator that they’re interested in you? I always thought that for any application, an interview is conducted if an alumni happens to be in the area.</p>
<p>According to the admissions office now they have about 1300 applications. So our chances are about the same as those currently on the freshman waiting list, I think.</p>
<p>@smithsonian2011 I’m also under the impression that alumni availability is the main factor. </p>
<p>Eek.</p>
<p>Haha, I haven’t posted in MONTHS!!!</p>
<p>I usually skim through threads related to subject areas I’m interested in. After skimming through this thread I feel comforted. We’re all in the same boat!!! </p>
<p>Thanks for all the relevant information to those who have been posting since the beginning. (The ones I noticed a good bit were CrmPie, carrot, and smithsonian)</p>
<p>The concentration I applied for was Government + East Asian Studies :)</p>
<p>eyethink, engineer, and Musik too. :)</p>
<p>^ Great to have you aboard. Hopefully our modest lil’ boat doesn’t sink. 
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<p>Haha, hopefully we’ll all reach our destination. ;)</p>
<p>^Let’s hope the wind blows favorably in our direction ;-)</p>
<p>I could keep going all day…</p>
<p>Don’t forget sharp shovels to gain access to the buried treasure! ;)</p>
<p>Hopefully our Common Map will show us where’s its buried. ;-)</p>
<p>Row, row, row your boat, gently down the Charles…</p>
<p>…Warily, warily, warily, warily,
Harvard’s but a dream.</p>
<p>^
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I wish there were “like” buttons on CC ^.^</p>
<p>^
'Tis better to have liked and applied
Than to have never applied at all.
Thou shall not fear being denied.
Thus be bold instead of petrified,
'Twas only Harvard dost though applied.</p>
<p>The road oft taken</p>
<p>Two roads diverged in a wood,
And be one traveller long I stood–
That is, one of a Mass of travelers!–
I took the road oft taken by admirers.
And sorry I could not travel both;
Too oft I’ve been pushed into the undergrowth.
So, I returned to the roads a second time
And intent on claiming the dream of mine.
And that made all the difference.</p>
<p>BjM</p>
<p>lol you guys amuse me. 
I have also frequently reached out to click “like” before realizing I wasn’t in Kansas anymo’… REALLY though, CC NEEDS A LIKE BUTTON…</p>
<p>And don’t think I haven’t noted the irony in the fact that FB is the creation of a Harvard DROPOUT. Hahahahaha</p>
<p>While we’re on the subject, is anyone else getting rather ticked by their fb pic and info appearing in any corner of any website they visit?? Everyone everywhere suddenly knows me…and while this IS convenient on the sites that I actually do end up wanting to join (makes it pretty darn easy, you know…just a little “click”), that still doesn’t compensate for the clear INVASION OF MY PRIVACY. Anyone with me here…?</p>
<p>(Sorry, too tired to write a poem tonight, but I can ride out this wait on a tangent with the best of ya…)</p>
<p>XD</p>
<p>Three questions:</p>
<p>1) One post in this thread reported that Harvard received 1500 transfer applications this year. Another, 1300. I’m assuming that the posters probably obtained this info by talking with Harvard admissions officers. Does anyone know who’s likely to be in that applicant pool? Is most of it community college students? Or is most of it students who are applying from the Ivies and other top-ranked schools? Can anyone tell me anything about what Harvard’s transfer applicant pool usually looks like? Do they get a lot of international transfer applicants? </p>
<p>2) Does Harvard give any advantage to “diverse” students when choosing transfer applicants, or is that only true for freshman admissions? I’m white and I have highly educated parents, and my permanent home address is in an affluent area (but my parents couldn’t afford to make any donations to any university beyond yearly tuition costs), and I’m wondering if this will hurt me. Will it? I also have no geographical advantage-- I’m from New York City, from where I’m guessing Harvard probably already has tons of enrolled students. Will that hurt my chances? </p>
<p>3) Before applying, did any of you contact Harvard faculty who teach in the department that you’d be majoring in? I didn’t do this, but a friend of mine who is applying did. Now I wish I had, but I just didn’t think to do so before March 1. How important is this? Can it definitely give someone’s application a boost if they’ve contacted faculty? </p>
<p>Thanks, everyone!</p>
<p>I love CC. I wish we could be admitted on the basis of cleverness. </p>
<p>@exprep</p>
<p>I’d contact Harvard about those questions. I can offer you my speculations, but most of it’ll probably turn out to be lunacy. </p>
<p>1) This article offers some info about prior institutions. </p>
<p>[Harvard</a> Lags in Community College Recruitment | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/12/12/harvard-lags-in-community-college-recruitment/]Harvard”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/12/12/harvard-lags-in-community-college-recruitment/)</p>
<p>3) I took two classes in my major there from Harvard’s Summer School Program. I asked one of my lecturers to write one of my LoRs. From my experience, most faculty won’t remember your name. I’m curious, what did your friend contact faculty about?</p>
<p>I agree with BostonCrm. I sometimes wonder if Adcom officers browse CC to see what kind of rumors are floating out there. Just for kicks. </p>
<p>As far as the number of students who applied, why don’t we go with the worst case scenario and call it 1,500? Either way, the admit rate is going to be around 1% </p>
<p>I’m not sure if they would be able to release this information, but it may be more productive to focus on the number of transfer students they are looking to admit. We want to be one of those 15 that get in, not the 1,485 that don’t. :)</p>
<p>@BostonCrmPie</p>
<p>I think she contacted the department head to ask a few questions about major requirements, research opportunities for students in the department, and about what students who major in the department like most and least about the department/major. From the way she described it to me, they were questions that she didn’t really care very much about the answers to; she just wanted to ask questions to appear to be an eager, interested, responsible student on the off chance that the Admissions office decided to ask the department head to choose among a few candidates who were applying to major in his/her department. Or something. This is how my friend explained it to me, anyway.</p>