Official Harvard RD 2016 Applicants' Discussion Thread

<p>I’m going to look at schools in the order I want to go to them. For me, the order is going to be:

  1. Harvard and Princeton (tied for first)
  2. Stanford
  3. Yale
  4. Brown
  5. Dartmouth
  6. Columbia</p>

<p>If I havent been admitted anywhere by Columbia, I’ll be crushed x(</p>

<p>10 days!!!
How are you guys dealing with the stress?</p>

<p>Hey kpackett,
I find eating and shouting at my family to be very helpful you should try it</p>

<p>I’m not really stressed. I mean, it’s all done. Oh well. No need to worry haha</p>

<p>Yeah, I’m not too stressed. I’ve gotten likelies/early writes/notifications to Dartmouth, Smith, and NYU, so whatever happens I know I’m set. In fact, even if I get into HYP, I may still choose Dartmouth. So now I’m just waiting haha.</p>

<p>I think I’ll check in this order: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, UPenn, Dartmouth. I’m ambivalent towards Penn and Columbia (which is kind of ironic considering I was deferred from Columbia for ED haha), and I know about Dartmouth already.</p>

<p>It’ll be here before we know it, guys (:</p>

<p>I wish I had liked Dartmouth… But I do have Columbia in my back pocket. Hyp would still be awesome though </p>

<p>Sent from my SPH-D710 using CC</p>

<p>is it taboo to have already joined the MIT’16 facebook group if we’re still holding out for the a few of the ivies and Stanford? :o</p>

<p>I’m on the page too. I figure its not bad to make friends, right? Haha</p>

<p>Sent from my SPH-D710 using CC</p>

<p>Agreed! :slight_smile: I feel like asking on the page if anybody else is an epic CC user like us lol</p>

<p>What about people that haven’t gotten LLs/early writes…
What order are you checking decisions in on Ivy Day?</p>

<p>I’m thinking
Most likely → least likely (based purely on acceptance rates from years past)
Cornell > UPenn > Dartmouth > Brown > Princeton > Yale > Columbia > Harvard</p>

<p>@classicgirll </p>

<p>Most Likely > Least Likely</p>

<p>Dartmouth > Penn > Brown > Princeton > Harvard > Yale </p>

<p>I got contacted by D fin aid a while back so I think I got in… also likely’d at Duke… we’ll see.</p>

<p>No likely letters here, haha. I figure I’ll end up checking each one as soon as it comes in, and I really doubt they’ll all become available simultaneously, but if I got to choose the order:</p>

<p>Harvard -> Yale -> Brown -> Columbia</p>

<p>Get the obvious rejections out of the way first, then move on to the other rejections. :P</p>

<p>Yeah, I doubt they will all come out at exactly 5pm, especially the ones that send out emails…</p>

<p>And I doubt I’ll have the patience to wait until 6pm… haha.</p>

<p>Most likely I’ll just have all the pages up and constantly refresh -____-</p>

<p>Well since I only applied to Penn and Harvard, I’m just gonna do Penn first. That’s more likely than Harvard is.</p>

<p>@Purpender, the emails are weird. I applied to UMich as a safety and I got my decision email over a day after it was supposed to come out.</p>

<p>I will say that for SCEA, my D’s email showed up in her inbox at exactly 5:00. It was kinda surreal. Granted, there are less emails for SCEA. Best of luck to everyone. I remember the SCEA countdown like it was yesterday. And it doesn’t help that H tortures you by announcing the acceptance numbers/demographics the morning of decision day.</p>

<p>I’ll check in order of biggest dream school to less dream school:</p>

<p>Harvard- Princeton- Yale- Stanford- Brown- Georgetown- Dartmouth- Penn- Cornell/Berkeley, then my safeties. </p>

<p>This is silly though; let’s talk about something more substantive than order of the schools we will check haha.</p>

<p>Has anybody received an email from Harvard detailing the specifics of receiving the email? Does anybody know if the committee has finished its work yet? Also the Crimson last year did an article about the Class of 2015 10 days before decisions were mailed… Where is this years? </p>

<p>All this work over the past four years coming down in 9 days.</p>

<p>@jkreine,
The Crimson might have written that article last year due to the lack of an EA option.
This year, they’ve already covered part of the “Class of 2016”… So, while it would be nice to have another one for us RD’ers, I doubt it’ll happen.</p>

<p>As for Committee finishing and finalizing decisions: It should be done in one to two days. The FA office needs time to make its offers!</p>

<p>It’s pretty incredible…</p>

<p>During my interview yesterday with an admissions officer, she told me that things were still pretty hectic so…I don’t think things are finalized just yet!</p>

<p>[Hitler</a> Gets Rejected from Harvard - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)
Some comic relief as you await your admissions decision. Love, Harvard freshmen who have nothing better to do with their time. :]</p>

<p>@purpender u could try logging into the admitted students website…ul find out way before u receive the email ;)</p>

<p>Spiffy1994, how did you have your interview so late?</p>