<p>I wish I had kept the fact that I was applying a secret as well. Even my parents were assuming I was going to get accepted for sure until I showed my dad the Class of 2015 Harvard results thread - that helped put things in perspective a little more.</p>
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<p>That thread is pretty much the most devastating thing to read ever. Everyone who had stats comparable to mine were URM’s. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻</p>
<p>That makes YOU, yes YOU the URM for that score range.</p>
<p>Oh, uh… I meant, like, in terms of subjective stats not objectives… :</p>
<p>Do you know if the applicant status website has any hints yet?</p>
<p>Like if you can see “admitted students” link on the right or if your page is still available.</p>
<p>If not, when will this be an indicator?</p>
<p>@crimson2016 Nope, because they’re still finalizing their decisions.
It all ends on the 7th for them. Then the financial aid people get a week to make aid decisions. So for us, it’s 8 more agonizing days!</p>
<p>@power4good: I thought socioeconomic status isn’t a factor in admissions. Whether through legacy status or other hooks, accepted applicants seem to have the greatest future endowment potential. Whether or not they’ll be successful in the future isn’t necessarily predicated upon their current socioeconomic status.</p>
<p>Is everyone definitely gonna go to Harvard if they get in? Personally, even if I somehow was accepted I might not go (depending on where else I get accepted). For example if I get into Harvard, Yale, and Rice with some scholarship $ (knock on wood) I would have a VERY tough time deciding</p>
<p>@TheRealFake: It is a factor but a low socioeconomic status can only help an applicant. Harvard is purposely trying to diversify even economic backgrounds.</p>
<p>@Tennuggler: If I get in, I’m definitely going but still going to apply to the colleges that I’ve been planning on applying, except for safeties, of course.</p>
<p>@Quillabee93 i’m in the atlanta area haha</p>
<p>@RarissimaAvis: if you’d definitely go to harvard, why would you still apply other colleges? assuming you were accepted, you’d be taking the spots of other applicants who dream of going to yale, princeton, etc.</p>
<p>@ahhyes: I knew someone was going to address this. Looking back at the post, I should have said “most likely” instead. I agree with you in that I shouldn’t be taking other people’s spots, but like I said many pages back, I still want to keep all my options open for financial aid, scholarships, other offers, etc.</p>
<p>I haven’t told anybody that I’m applying, other than my parents and my guidance counselor. I’m not sure if my sister knows. </p>
<p>Everyone asking if I applied early has not been fun. I just said I didn’t apply ED, and technically, its not early action, its SCEA.</p>
<p>In my area its kinda common for people to say they’re applying early, but not where. Still, its a small town - it all comes out. People have the wildest rumors. In like October someone came up to me and said “I heard you really really like MIT and want to go there and you’re applying early. Oh, and I can’t tell you who said that or they’ll kill you.” I never said anything like that, and none of my friends are friends with this person.</p>
<p>Any other crazy rumor stories?</p>
<p>ageofchaos: I just saw the new decisions thread. nice work. 
is it really eerie to any one else that those stats are going to belong to…US?
like i spent months coming through those (causing bitter depression of course; most of the accepted URMs have better stats than me) last spring and over the summer, never really thinking that I would one day be in their shoes, and mostly just fantasizing about when i would be at Harvard. Now I am sitting here dreading it, thinking about if an when I will be…rejected. gulp. </p>
<p>BUT because I promised my mother and my best friend, as well as myself simply in spite of the jerk in my 5th hour who tells me daily that I am not going to get in…I am going to try and be an optimist about this. So. I will change the above to “I find it really surreal that it is going to be us posting our acceptances and stats in a few days! So exciting!”</p>
<p>@Jaysha: my thoughts, right there. No matter what happens on the 15th, we will have left our marks here on CC. This is our moment!! :')</p>
<p>Anyway, at my school, almost everyone applied/is applying/will apply to prestigious colleges, so I don’t really get the “OMG HARVARD” drama.</p>
<p>By the way, I found the portal site. It’s not the link next to the status page but the link from the main Office of Admissions page. This will probably save me from ferociously pressing F5 on my gmail. Here’s the link! I favorited it already. 
[Harvard</a> College Admissions § Application Status Login](<a href=“http://collegeadmissions.fas.harvard.edu/admitted/login.cgi]Harvard”>http://collegeadmissions.fas.harvard.edu/admitted/login.cgi)</p>
<p>8 days, 22 hours, 49 minutes, 15 seconds.</p>
<p>sigh. so I just checked my applicant status page…and my subject tests are still marked as unofficial even though they were sent weeks ago. does this mean that they did not care enough to download the scores at all?</p>
<p>If I get in, I am not applying anywhere else. I will take all that unused app fee money and treat myself to something pretty! </p>
<p>@everyone that feels my pain of the entire world knowing: I NEVER intended for as many people to know that I got in. I only told the closest people to me, but the cat got out of the bag!. I HATE that so many people know. People at my school are counting down with me!</p>
<p>Advice to future applicants, be like power4good–don’t tell anyone besides recommending teachers and your guidance counselor (and maybe your parents.)</p>
<p>You might want to change Waitlisted to Deferred!</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, why do so many of you want to keep your EA status secret? All of my friends applying early (including myself) have shared the fact openly. We’re counting down for each other, offering moral support if things don’t turn out well (and happiness if things do turn out well).</p>
<p>I’d feel terrible showing up at school on Friday if I got rejected and nobody knew why I wasn’t doing too well.</p>
<p>True that- sorry folks; please change the text when you post!</p>