Official Harvard RD Class of 2018 Thread

<p>3-5% acceptance rate for regular decision? That’s depressingly low. For one admitted student there are around 20-30 rejected ones.</p>

<p>@book05 welcome to the world of Harvard and Stanford (statistically the hardest school to get into in the country)… Us RD applicants are playing the game with pretty much most of the world’s grandest students/athletes/musicians/scientists/etc AS WELL AS a grand majority of 3.85+, 2200/33-34+ folks. And everything including folks that didn’t get into their top ED or just wanna keep options open past EA round. I feel the same nervousness but thats just the way it is…
And to all the deferred EA students!! Stay strong, harvard saw something in you so don’t lose hope!</p>

<p>Ill take the 1/20 odds thats not too bad. Thats sorta how i think it should be. The nearly 30,000 applicants cant stastistically have higher than like a 2000 cuz i think there are only like 14,000 nationwide above 2100 and not all those apply to harvard or ivies. And also, not all have good ECs and all that. Oh well, I guess im trying to be optimistic cuz my interview is tomorrow :confused: lol.</p>

<p>@LesPaulFireburst</p>

<p>I hate to break it to you, but there are over 60,000 kids who have 2100+ on the SAT (see <a href=“http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-Composite-CR-M-W-2013.pdf[/url]”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-Composite-CR-M-W-2013.pdf&lt;/a&gt; ). There are about 14,000 kids with 2260+ which is a very different number… I also believe that these are the data for scores in a single sitting, so once you factor in super-scoring, you have a BUNCH of kids with pretty high SAT scores. But, like you said, not all of these kids apply or have the other qualifications to get in.</p>

<p>Anyone having problem accessing the application portal?</p>

<p>Mine worked fine for more than a week and I just needed to check if all materials were received… </p>

<p>If I try to log in, I get redirected to the application portal again;;;</p>

<p>Try clicking enter with nothing in the boxes then press try logging in again. When I do that and then put in my info it works for me.</p>

<p>@lespaul and @bulldog
That is just the SAT you are looking at. More people in the country take the ACT than the SAT and you have to account for everyone with 30+ as well which is probably just above the replicate number for the SAT. When you factor in the fact that lot of people do well on both you are looking at about 1.5 times the total GREAT SAT/ACT scorers. Divide by half per-say to represent folks applying to harvard and you still end up with ALOT of people!
I think thats why its easy to understand that admissions to harvard, stanford, yale goes WAY WAY above test scores cause even if you do have 2200/33+ you only get your name into the conversation. More like a qualification than an advantage. obviously I am not saying people below 2100 DONT get in to harvard cause they do but for majority of the people you look at 2100+/31-32+ as the baseline scores…</p>

<p>@matrixsurgeon Actually, I am an international student. :smiley: There are just so many brilliant people and to compete with them is almost impossible. Almost. There is a very small chance that I will be admitted, unrealistic, but possible. I did not want to sound demotivating or encouraging, just bracing myself for rejection. :)</p>

<p>I saw some of perfect SAT/SAT2/GPA applicants were deferred from HYPS. Please don’t lose your hope if you have good essays/ECs/Recs. As always heard, the admission is a holistic process.</p>

<p>^And M. I was in that category as well and MIT deferred me. I’m hoping for the best for Harvard. Past years’ admissions results thread suggest that, at least for Harvard, being a statistically “perfect” or “near-perfect” applicant does make it very likely that you will be waitlisted, which means you definitely made it to committee.</p>

<p>Good points everyone. My interview is in 3 hrs yay!</p>

<p>@book05
I was not trying to make my response to your post seem anything more than simply agreeing with you. I was just agreeing with you and I will probably be one of those rejected fellows as well so I am like you: embracing the impact so it does not hurt as much!</p>

<p>murghjjsjsjsk not fair</p>

<p>@matrixsurgeon Good luck to you anyway. Some people to defy the odds and get in. :slight_smile:
@LesPaulFireburst How did your interview go?</p>

<p>Got an email from my interviewer today.</p>

<p>Interviewer wasn’t that great
The guy is a millionaire investor from HBS and basically didn’t consider my awards in MUN or the company I started as “ECs” good enough. Basically asked what I had international and national awards in</p>

<p>My interview was ehhh too my guy was really weird…oh well compared me to bill gates and mark zuckerberg tho lol kinda confused…</p>

<p>Interviewer wasn’t that great
The guy is a millionaire investor from HBS and basically didn’t consider my awards in MUN or the company I started as “ECs” good enough. Basically asked what I had international and national awards in</p>

<p>Like I asked about his social experience and hes like “GREATT time playing cards in my dorm. Soo many long, good hours.” And then my draw dropped mentally…like do Harvard ppl party??! I shuda just asked that, he was like 35. But yeah, he didnt ask any standard questions…he only asked what classes im taking, and then went on to quiz me on calculus and economics…and then we talked about my ECs for a whole hour. He ended it by asking for all my scores and didnt say anything about them or why he asked. Little confused why he’d ask for them at the end and not use them. Anybody?</p>

<p>It’s for basic evaluation purposes. Just google “Harvard Alumni Inteview Report” and the third link shows a generic sort of form that one Harvard Club uses. Of course, this might definitely be different between clubs. You can see that the first questions kind of ballparks one’s scores into certain categories. My guess would be that the interviewer was trying to gauge roughly what to pick. But remember, there is an admissions committee for that you know :wink: So don’t worry about it :p</p>