<p>Congratulations Xd32!!!</p>
<p>Congratulations! That is absolutely amazing! Did you ever get confirmation of sending things?</p>
<p>To whomever asked, yes. A person in the admissions office told me the statistics in the New York Times were incorrect and that they would be releasing their own statistics shortly.</p>
<p>xd32,</p>
<p>Did you get called at night? I figured once 5:00pm est came we would be waiting until at least the next day for any news. Also, what other colleges had admitted you? Thanks!</p>
<p>but the NYT stats were from an email that Harvard sent out....
Do you think the "real" stats are better or worse?</p>
<p>I'm sticking with 150-175.</p>
<p>@brownflavors - Those numbers were reported in the Crimson.</p>
<p>Right. Here's the excerpt from the Crimson:</p>
<p>The admissions office will be accepting anywhere from 150 to about 175 students off the waitlist starting tomorrow, with the bulk of waitlist decisions made by the end of this month. At this point, 55 percent of the confirmed members of the Class of 2012 will be on financial aid, up from 49 percent of the current freshman class.</p>
<p>thanks for all the congratulations!</p>
<p>To answer some of your questions,</p>
<p>During the regular decision process, my regional admission counselor actually emailed me asking for a recording of me playing the accordion. I had won 2nd place at a national competition and the committee would love to hear me play. So I sent that in, but still didn't make the cut for regular decision. I'm also valedictorian of my graduating class. </p>
<p>After I found out that I was waitlisted, I emailed my interviewer, and she passed along my interest to the committee. I also sent in a letter to the admissions counselor that asked for the according. That's all I did. </p>
<p>Brownflavors, I got an email from the same admissions counselor (as you can probably tell by now, she was really nice and absolutely phenomenal) who told me "thank you for your note [my letter], I'm sure it'll be very helpful to the committee's decision".</p>
<p>emmabelle, I actually got the call around 7:00 pm.</p>
<p>I have no legacy or any connections.</p>
<p>O yea, one more thing that probably boosted me was I have a good friend who's a first year at Harvard, she actually wrote a letter for me to the admissions committee, I haven't read the letter, but she said it was "really good" :)</p>
<p>Congrads xd32. So what college are you going to now tell that you aren't going to?</p>
<p>a girl in my school got in today.</p>
<p>She has a 2400/4.0, perfect everything basically.. ahh gets this means i'm done :/</p>
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<p>Hahaha. It'll be fun to watch people's shrieks of despair or hope once they release the new stats.</p>
<p>Harvard posted the 150-175 stat.</p>
<p>thanks vttxnh, I'm gonna be giving up cornell plus a $400 deposit, but whatever, Harvard's way worth it. :)</p>
<p>CNI, don't worry about stats too much, I had a 2160 SAT and everything worked out ok. I also won the bet w/ my mom cause she didn't think I could get into top schools with that low of a score. haha.</p>
<p>(Sorry to disappoint your hope of basking in our misery...)</p>
<p>Yeah but I highly, highly doubt they'll take 2 from the SAME school off the WL</p>
<p>Sorry CNI. Where are you committed?</p>
<p>CNI,</p>
<p>Did anyone else get in from your school regular decision?</p>
<p>No. 3 WL ( one opted out of the list bc. he was committed to brown), 2 rejects</p>
<p>I'm committed to Duke</p>
<p>um...are you sure that's the case???
i personally called the admissions office and they said that they have to review everyone who stayed on the waitlist first before calling people. they said that they won't start notifying ppl until this thursday. and then it'll be an ongoing process for about a month.</p>
<p>so i wouldn't automatically believe anyone who says they've gotten off the waitlist.</p>
<p>The downfall of internet forums...</p>