<p>@brokenandhealed</p>
<p>Hey, I see you’re also applying to Harvard (and not just in the Yale thread)</p>
<p>I didn’t know you were homeschooled. So am I.
Do you think that helps us in admissions?</p>
<p>Just for example, I know the last time Stanford released the data (2005 I believe) they had a crazy 35% acceptance rate for homeschoolers. That’s compared to about a 10% normal acceptance rate at the time.</p>
<p>Hey everyone! I’m apart of the class of 2017 and just want to wish everyone the best of luck!
So as I’m sure most of you know they send the rejection emails before the acceptance emails so I found out last year by logging on to the admitted student portal and reading “Congratulations!” I was doubtful until I finally got the real email haha</p>
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<p>@EtiquetteOfWar Wow, really? I kind of wondered if it would give me a leg up. At the very least, I think colleges expect less of us than, say, a really high ranked public or private school. I didn’t even know what an AP class was until my sophomore year because I didn’t really know an upperclassmen taking them, and my schooling wasn’t integrated with other peoples’. We also have generally less opportunities for ECs, so I think a strong commitment to a couple weighs pretty highly for home schoolers.</p>
<p>But then again, this is all just speculation. :P</p>
<p>@brokenandhealed</p>
<p>I suspect that the reasons for higher homeschool admission rates are threefold.</p>
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<li><p>A lot of homeschool applicants have been able to use their free time to do really cool/unique things. Many have also been able to take quite a few college classes. A great deal have already found their “passion.”</p></li>
<li><p>I’ve seen far less homeschool kids than public school kids apply to the Ivys for “prestige.” This probably skews the statistics as well, because only talented homeschoolers are bothering to apply whereas a good deal of public school kids apply even though they never had a real chance.</p></li>
<li><p>In today’s world of “Diversity, diversity, diversity!” I think being homeschooled stands out. If they had two identical applicants in every single way except that one was homeschooled and one was from a public school, I believe they would accept the homeschooled applicant on the grounds of diversification.</p></li>
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<p>Also, I’ve heard that they judge homeschoolers based on the other homeschoolers. So if only 500 of us applied to Harvard this year, then we have a better chance of being seen as “unique”</p>
<p>@dreamingsenior
Can one check right as Thursday, March 27 12:01 EST hits or do we have to wait until like 5pm EST to check the online portals?</p>
<p>Also, which portal do you mean? The “admitted students” one?</p>
<p>@matrixsurgeon I honestly have no idea haha. I just remember trying it out at various times throughout the week and got impatient the day the results came out. I did check around 5pm though so I don’t think the portal will be that successful that early. Just don’t stress, go to school and and let the end of the day come naturally hahaha!</p>
<p>@dreamingsenior
Thanks! I was just wondering cause I will not be getting an email that day so I was wondering about other options. I doubt I will actually do much that day until like 7pm EST as that is when I will be getting home and checking all the other decisions. </p>
<p>Can anyone give me the link for the admitted student page? I know it won’t do anything now, but just in case I don’t see any email at 5 p.m., this might be helpful…(although I’m expecting to get rejected, honestly.)</p>
<p>@humanities2014 I believe you mean this <a href=“Log in | Harvard”>https://college.harvard.edu/user</a></p>
<p>@LAMuniv Oh, that was the admitted student portal. I thought that was a “user login”, which some said to be different from the admitted student portal. Great. Thanks for the info. </p>
<p>@humanties2014 This isn’t the admitted students portal, but many people were referring to it as that, and some people are saying that they saw their decision posted there, too. I may have misunderstood them, though.</p>
<p>@LAMuniv A-ha. That makes sense. </p>
<p>Could it be that it turns into the admitted student portal once the decisions are released? I think that I will just wait for the email though…</p>
<p>I’m going to wait for the email. I"d rather read a rejection email, than just see that I’m not able to log in.</p>
<p>Can anyone not log into <a href=“Log in | Harvard”>https://college.harvard.edu/user</a> ?</p>
<p>Is anyone else at least a little concerned that harvard hasn’t sent the “here’s how to check your decision” email that columbia, upenn, princeton and brown have all sent? Does anyone know the link or login where we check tomorrow?</p>
<p>@neuromajor Harvard emails decisions.</p>
<p>And @DanielHendrycks I have been in the past, but now it’s timing out after loading for a long time. I have poor wifi signal, though, so maybe that’s just an individual problem.</p>