<p>Just my gut. I know nothing and do not pretend to know anything. My gut is simply that people will note the huge discrepancy in acceptance rates between SCEA and RD and more will roll the dice with SCEA (regardless of all the SCEA theories regarding athletes, legacies and URMs). I could very well be way off. We will know soon though.</p>
<p>Yeah, you’re probably right. I bet we know today or tomorrow.</p>
<p>Where do you look to find these updates? Does the admissions office have a blog or something?</p>
<p>^It is always posted on the Harvard homepage. However, I just waited for gibby to post it last year. She’s usually on the ball!</p>
<p>Wait- Gibby is female?! I didn’t know. You’re right though, she’s one of the most active, helpful members here.</p>
<p>Did anyone in the Rockland/Westchester area of New York schedule their interview? I still haven’t been contacted yet and decisions are supposed to come out in less than a month…</p>
<p>To what degree, if at all, do you guys think Hurricane Sandy affected the number of applications Harvard received?</p>
<p>It probably had very little influence if any</p>
<p>Yeah, Harvard did say if you were affected by the hurricane, you could send in the app late. I’m sure everyone who was going to apply ended up applying.</p>
<p>Wow, although I surf CollegeConfidential daily, I didn’t even think until now to search for a Harvard SCEA thread. This is all happening so fast! Good luck to everyone, and have a happy Thanksgiving!</p>
<p>Does legacy preference apply to all legacies, or only to the big donors (i.e. donated a wing or something). I understand that admissions rates significantly increase for legacies; is this homogeneously true? What if only one parent attended, and is not a donor?</p>
<p>3 weeks until decisions!!</p>
<p>@mohcoh: As far as I know, legacy preferences apply to all legacies. However, the legacy acceptance rate may be skewed because of the fact that children of Harvard students will likely have an advantage in life (better socioeconomic status, greater emphasis on education, etc). Thus, I wouldn’t draw any big conclusions from a higher legacy acceptance rate. Nevertheless, I’m pretty sure that there is some boost to being a legacy.</p>
<p>So if you are a qualified URM, with a lot of hooks, is it to your advantage to apply SCEA? I know it’s hard to know these things for sure, but any ideas?</p>
<p>Re: legacy applicants</p>
<p>The obvious thing would be to compare the rate of Harvard legacy admits to Yale/Princeton/other Ivy legacy admits.</p>
<p>@runnerxc: Understood. Do you think preference still applies if the legacy is short, i.e. only one parent attended?</p>
<p>@Looshin: Do you know those rates? I’m pretty sure Harvard’s is the highest… <a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/5/11/admissions-fitzsimmons-legacy-legacies/[/url]”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/5/11/admissions-fitzsimmons-legacy-legacies/</a> …but i have not been able to find any info regarding last year’s (or this year’s, for that matter).</p>
<p>I meant how many Ivy legacy applicants (who would benefit from the same socio-economic background and focus on education that their Harvard legacy peers would) get into Harvard.</p>
<p>So no real preference or “quota” type thing?</p>
<p>Only 20 days left!</p>
<p>Literally a day does not go by when I don’t check this forum and have a mini panic attack about decisions. Haha…</p>