<p>I decided to start a new thread for RD so we can support each other through this round. How are you all doing on the supplements?</p>
<p>Almost done with mine
Harvard’s crazy with acceptance rate so I figured I’d just have risky essays
Not much to loose</p>
<p>I’m applying. I don’t have high hopes, but might as well try.</p>
<p>I’m going to try to write something creative in the additional, optional essay space just to differentiate myself. I’d love love love to go to Harvard but I won’t get too optimistic about my chances because of the ~3% admission rate.</p>
<p>I’m really not expecting to get in. A three percent acceptance rate is absolutely ridiculous, and really, those are virtually impossible odds. I went with nontraditional essays becuase, what the heck?, I have nothing to lose.</p>
<p>So glad someone started this thread! Quite literally starting my essays now. I’m a total masochist. Wish me luck!</p>
<p>HEY GUYS nice to see some fellow harvard RD applicants…was worried that no RD thread was made till this one!! </p>
<p>yea the 3% acceptance probable rate for RD is extremely scary but i think that as of this point, one almost HAS to do the additional essay unless u have a hook or something…its gonna be hard to differentiate when you are competing against 30000 other applicants with stellar academics and great scores and ECs can only do so much…im tryin to make mine really personal and talk abotu my background and how it has affected me and how it will do so into the future…
how about yall??</p>
<p>If accepted as RD, the applicants should be very proud because of extremely acceptance rate. By the way, my daughter will apply as RD, too.</p>
<p>I’m applying! That 3 percent acceptance rate is pretty scary!</p>
<p>And as for essays, I’m applying to 10 schools, and I’ve only completed the supplements for 3 and a half (Harvard is one of those though). This should be a fun week.</p>
<p>I honestly haven’t even thought deeply about going to Harvard because it’s so impossible. I think if I got in, I’d laugh.</p>
<p>Hey guys how long was your additional essay?! Mine’s around 500 words but on common app it says that Harvard accepts essays that are over 1000…</p>
<p>Literally trying desperately to write an essay for Harvard that will set me apart. My essay so far is… subtle but nontraditional, I would say. I don’t know. I really don’t think I’ll get in but college admissions are a crapshoot, they say.</p>
<p>Did any of you receive any mail or emails consistently from Harvard urging you to apply? I just got one a few days ago asking me to consider Harvard before Jan 1.</p>
<p>^^^ yaa, I’ve gotten a couple of those emails.</p>
<p>And my essay is 926 words…
Hopefully that’s not bad. It just flowed out of me. It’s about how my life has shaped my career interests and how nothing can stand in the way of me achieving it. I think it’s pretty good.</p>
<p>Hey Harvard RD! Let’s goo! I sent in everythig last teusday, so good to be done. I think the 150 word one was so hard to write in that limited space, but the second might have been the best essay I’ve ever written.</p>
<p>I’m applying! That second essay is killing me. I know what I want to write but it just won’t come out.</p>
<p>Let flow bro. Speak your mind.</p>
<p>I have been agonizing over what to include in the optional Harvard supplemental essay section. I have several literary analyses and poems I was considering, but I’m afraid I might as well send the admissions committee a stick-figure drawing. Are these kinds of submissions of any value to the committee, and are they likely to strengthen my application?</p>
<p>Did you guys make your additional essay Harvard specific?? I kind of want to because I wrote about research I’ve done and wanted to connect it to the research opportunities at Harvard but I’m not sure if it’s a good idea… :/</p>
<p>Mine is Harvard specific. Sort of a why Harvard essay you could call it.</p>
<p>So has anyone heard from about interviews? I have an interview in a few days and I only submitted my app last week, I haven’t even finished my supplement. I’m so nervous. This could be good though, maybe not many people apply where I live.</p>