<p>Here are my speculations, based on the Princeton numbers just released on NYT:</p>
<p>6000+ REA applicants, with 800+ early admits or roughly 12-13% early admission rate which would be more than doubled than last year’s overall admission rate of 6.2%. Don’t hold me on that, though.</p>
<p>Guys!! an interviewer said that Harvard is trying to get their decisions out by first two weeks of December! so that’s less than a month from now! nervous…</p>
<p>Is it true that all the interviewers from a region meet and discuss the applicants? That’s what my interviewer told me…</p>
<p>@sebelius - my interviewer said that too. She also mentioned meeting a yale interviewer, so I wonder if people who interview the same people but for different schools meet</p>
<p>One of my teachers is actually an interviewer for Stanford and he said he just does a detailed write-up about the student’s personality, whether or not they are “right” for Stanford, etc. so I think it depends on the interviewer.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if they send research papers to be evaluated by the science department?<br>
And what the process is/ how heavily they weigh it?</p>
<p>Could a bad research paper hurt your admissions chances? Or will they think more along the lines of, “This is only high-school level work”</p>
<p>@Hparent: I read the article you talked about. I think I am feeling slightly better. I can’t wait until Harvard releases their numbers sometime next week.</p>
<p>@Rarissima, wow, stanford interviewer? They’re rare… almost none of S applicants are interviewed!</p>
<p>"Does anyone know if they send research papers to be evaluated by the science department?
And what the process is/ how heavily they weigh it?</p>
<p>Could a bad research paper hurt your admissions chances? Or will they think more along the lines of, “This is only high-school level work”"</p>
<p>^it’s sent to the science department at the discretion of the admissions officers. Not sure what that’s supposed to mean, though…maybe they don’t send it if it’s an executive summary or something? </p>
<p>Yes, a bad report definitely does harm. They repeatedly say to only send extra-ordinary works, and that the thicker your application, the higher the stakes. Admission officers really do not like to waste time on one applicant unless they’re learning something about the student that would make him/her worth accepting.</p>
<p>Admissions will screen the supplemental materials, including research papers, based on initial read of the overall profile of the applicant. They only send those who meet certain criteria for further faculty evaluation.</p>
<p>How are supplemental materials incorporated into the admission process? Does it affect something like an academic rating, or is it more of a tie-breaker?</p>
<p>Hey guys I have a question on sending AP scores…</p>
<p>I know a lot of you would have like 8+ AP scores as I do…So did everyone send in their AP scores even if it is not required? And do AP scores show on the applicant status page? Cos mine doesn’t…I ordered score reports in the last week of October…</p>
<p>@GordonTheGekko: I believe Stanford is actually trying to increase the practice of undergraduate admissions interviews. I think they currently try to cover everyone who apply from certain large metro areas. </p>
<p>@sebelius and waitingforivy: some local clubs meet AFTER the admissions process to hold discussions regarding the regional applicant pool. I’m not aware that alum interviewers meet with other interviewers from other schools. To say nothing of the potentially unethical nature of that practice, most alum just don’t have the time to go through the trouble of coordinating with other school alum clubs.</p>
<p>@GordonTheGekko: really?? I didn’t even know…haha but as far as I know, my teacher’s been interviewing for a VERY long time</p>
<p>@halfajojo: I actually don’t have that many AP scores (close, though) but I just wrote my scores on CommonApp. I didn’t bother sending in official scores.</p>
<p>windcloud I had a conversation with an admissions officer over the summer at Stanford’s campus (Eric A, kind of a younger and thinner james earl jones 
), he said “we’re beginning to roll out our alumni interview program” and left it at that… no on campus interviews either. </p>
<p>So I was just under the impression that they didn’t do any of the interview stuff Harvard does…</p>
<p>@halfajojo If you have AP scores somewhere in your application, I think you’ll be fine. You could have attached a list of self-reported schools to the Common App, or if your school is like mine, part of the school profile that we send has each kid’s individual AP/IB scores listed (of course, students have discretion in omitting certain scores). </p>
<p>I’m not sure if they care about official vs. unofficial AP scores in admissions. I’m sure they’ll look at the official copy, but I haven’t heard of people sending one before acceptance because official reports are for placement purposes. So that’s probably why the Applicant Status page doesn’t reflect it; just like supplemental materials, it’s not a standard document.</p>
<p>But in that NYT guest blog Q&A by that former Harvard adcom chair, he says that AP/IB are used by the adcom as their most definitive indicator of future academic performance (closely followed by SAT Subjects/SAT Writing section, high school grades, SAT/ACT scores). So I suppose it’s extremely beneficial to send in as many scores as possible for the adcoms to see.</p>
<p>Don’t know about you guys, but today at 11:11 AM (and 11 seconds), I made my wish…</p>
<p>@TheRealFake, I find it hard to believe that AP scores are given more weight than SAT/ACT and the subject tests. If that were true and adcoms were making their decisions based on AP scores, I’m sure they would have asked for official reports. Why would they need SAT/ACT and subject tests to be official, but not AP scores? A few years ago, schools didn’t even ask for AP scores until you were admitted. I’m pretty sure it’s just a placement test that they take into account upon matriculation, but it doesn’t hurt your academic rating if you have several 5’s.</p>
<p>^I agree with you. Also, if AP scores were that important, it would be unfair not to require them because then, those submitting AP scores would be advantaged.</p>
<p>Have all of you been notified about interviews? I still haven’t been contacted for an interview, which is making me nervous (because I know that it isn’t that there aren’t any alums in my area–there’s a harvard alum club in my town).</p>