<p>polarlights,
who gets rejected with a perfect 2400? not likely very many… Hoping my 2400 child gets a yes on Thursday!</p>
<p>I’m a 2400 student as well. On CC, people have thrown around figures of slightly below 1 in 2 acceptance rate.</p>
<p>@dreamingofoxford</p>
<p>a lot of 2400 do get in, comparatively. But I don’t know how getting 1 or 2 questions wrong on a one time multiple choice test tell you so much about someone’s qualifications. If i hadn’t missed 2 more questions on reading, I would have gotten a 2400, but I don’t see how I am any different as a person with a 2340 or a 2400. I missed a question because I didn’t know what “reservation” meant. </p>
<p>But I dearly hope your child receives a good news!</p>
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<p>I’d bet that it’s pretty close to 50% or more.</p>
<p>So since the application status page says the portal will be open for regular decision applicants October 3 to March 29, does that mean tomorrow (the 12th), if we can still log in, we have been deferred? Because we would change from early to regular applicants?</p>
<p>@daishi55 Great observation. I hope your logic holds up; I’m about to die of anticipation.</p>
<p>Edit: Hasn’t midnight of December 11 already passed (this morning)? Also, do you think that the application type might change from “Early” to “Regular” or something of that nature if one was deferred and your scenario were to come to fruition?</p>
<p>Well further down it says “Early action applicants may request their decision via email until midnight EST on Tuesday, December 11th.” I’m assuming they mean we have until midnight tonight, because it would be incredibly confusing if they meant that you only had the day of the 10th to make the change.</p>
<p>Similarly, the common app was due by midnight, november 1st. You had all day on the 1st to do the app, so the same logic probably applies here.</p>
<p>Hopefully, at midnight tonight, we might be able to tell whether or not we’ve been deferred.</p>
<p>Edit: Also, I can still log in, but my status is “early”, so no changes have been made yet.</p>
<p>Hm, I can still log in… “midnight December 11th” is pretty ambiguous though.</p>
<p>@daishi55 Good observation indeed. We’ll have to wait and see! I can still get on it today. The anticipation is just killer.</p>
<p>I understand everyone’s anticipation, but must say that we went through the same exercise (i.e., looking for any sort of hint re decisions) last year. Turned out there were no clues. Harvard Admissions has been down this road a few times–they’re pretty smart.</p>
<p>I am excited for all of you and hoping for the best.</p>
<p>So will email notifications be sent tonight or are they just making sure that they have the right email addresses?
I have a math exam tomorrow, and I can’t concentrate on studying. The possibility that the decisions might be emailed tonight makes me freak out!</p>
<p>Email notifications are still being sent on the 13th. If you had originally chosen to receive your decision by mail though, you can change it to receive it by email up until midnight tonight.</p>
<p>^Oh thanks! Now I am relieved!</p>
<p>@daishi Yeah, I read the discussion from last year and this happened to some people, but it was pretty random. So some people that could still access their pages were still accepted.</p>
<p>I live in the East Coast. At exactly what time am I going to learn of my status? lol. <em>heart beats</em></p>
<p>My D (on East coast) received her email at exactly 5:00pm, though she knows of people who received it later.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how many of those SCEA applicants that were deferred LY ended up getting accepted RD??</p>
<p>Ok, I made a decisions thread!
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1428454-official-harvard-university-2017-scea-decisions-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1428454-official-harvard-university-2017-scea-decisions-thread.html</a></p>
<p>We’re late this year; last year they already had one up on the 5th.</p>
<p>^^I know the overall acceptance rate for RD is ~3% (because they fill half their class with SCEA applicants), not sure what it is for those specifically deferred SCEA.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that deferred applicants are typically denied though I’m not sure it’s true. The argument basically goes that if a person is good enough, they’ll get in the first time around. Harvard knows pretty well what the normal application pool looks like, so they tend to not need the kids they defer. This could be completely wrong, but it seems to make sense. Plus Harvard tends to defer lots of kids, most of which they would have denied outright.</p>
<p>However, everything I said doesn’t mean much. Harvard just recently started up SCEA again, so last year might have just been them playing it safe. Who knows how it will be this year. </p>
<p>T-Minus 48.25 hours. Good luck everyone.</p>
<p>Exactly 2 days from this post!</p>