<p>They have to be “qualified” to be accepted. Its not about donating to buildings.</p>
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<p>Pretty sure that will never happen. In the eyes of the general public, Harvard has been the number 1 school in the country for the past 400 years. Dont see that changing any time soon.</p>
<p>"H only accepts outliers, eg.
- Black/Hispanics (maybe Asians) with low income, or from a low income/rural school district
- Athletes
- Offsprings of politicians/donors/communists/legacies/criminals ( regardless whether your Asian/black/green/purple)
- If you are Korean, you better emphasize that your are from the North"</p>
<p>I am none of these. Stop spreading misinformation.</p>
<p>I don’t think that it is true, being an African American I don’t think my chances are any greater that yours. </p>
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It did not happen because over 30,000+ normal qualified students did not get the messages and applied, if only 1/2 of these 30,000 got the messages, and did not apply, H ranking will drop instantly below Berkeley. Social networking is changing the world, we only had that in the last 10 years or so, not last 400 years.
I challenge you deferred/reject folks start the movement in the social media areana. Put ur truth out, you will change the world.</p>
<p>@msteiny1212 I am none of those, but accepted.</p>
<p>@shortcut , it’s funny you mention social media because the largest social media site was created by a Harvard student! </p>
<p>Honestly, I agree with others. Harvard will likely remain a competitive and extremely prestigious institution in the long term. No doubt that other schools will naturally get more competitive, but Harvard will keep it’s edge.</p>
<p>I think it’s fair to say that H accepts interesting people. I simply wasn’t interesting enough. Other people were more interesting than me. I congratulate them. I hope I’ll be interesting enough to be one of the 100 out of 3000 deferred students.</p>
<p>^ @runnerxc, my thoughts exactly. Although it’s very disappointing to learn that perfect or near-perfect test scores and GPA, as well as well-roundedness in ECs, can only get you so far</p>
<p>@daishi Same, congratulations!</p>
<p>Will we receive our financial aid information along with our letters in the mail?</p>
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<p>Apart from the fact that Harvard won’t celebrate its 400th anniversary for another 23 years, and except that Harvard is without question the oldest college in the United States, it really isn’t remotely true that Harvard has continuously been viewed throughout its history as clearly better than any other university. </p>
<p>I am in my mid-50s, and Harvard’s reputation now is much stronger than it was when I was in high school. People used to turn down Harvard acceptances regularly, not just to go to Yale or Princeton, but to go places like Dartmouth or Amherst. (Not Stanford. Its reputation has improved far more than Harvard’s in the past four decades.) Harvard got far fewer applications than it does now, and accepted more students to get its beds filled.</p>
<p>But 40 years ago, it was at least clearly one of the great universities in America. A hundred years before that, it wasn’t clearly the case. Harvard had gotten very staid and provincial, and was late to the party on a whole bunch of important trends in higher education: things like major fields of concentration, education of women and African-Americans, secularism. (It wasn’t until the 1870s that Harvard definitively abandoned its original motto, “Christo et Ecclesiae”, not “Veritas”.) There were anti-administration student riots in the 1830s, and an entire class was dismissed. More modern universities, like Cornell or Michigan, founded on modern, scientific principles, were the source of much more academic energy.</p>
<p>Harvard came back due to some great presidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the strength of its law and medical schools (and their newfound popularity as a way to educate professionals, vs. apprenticeship), the founding of Radcliffe, and the Harkness grant to build the sensational river houses.</p>
<p>Harvard’s status – and that of other colleges – is dynamic, not immutable. Reputations change over time, slowly, but definitely.</p>
<p>My son just got accepted from DE. Anyone else in DE accepted early?</p>
<p>What is DE?</p>
<p>When will harvard send out financial aid info? Along with the letter in the mail or later ?</p>
<p>Anyone accepted from Turkey?</p>
<p>I called the admissions office, and they said if we applied for financial aid (I’m assuming by sending the CSS Profile) our information should be included in our acceptance letter. Again, anyone know anyone from Utah?</p>
<p>Does anybody know how many hispanics applied EA? I know that 70 got accepted…I was not one of them unfortunately…I got deferred.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> Just posted my stats in the decisions thread. Deferred and SO dejected…</p>
<p>anyone in texas get a letter today? I opted to get the letter instead of the email and i was expecting to get it today… but it STILL hasnt come…</p>