<p>oh god this scares me so much! SCEA applicant here though :)</p>
<p>Once you strip out about 250 athletes, the EA rate is around 14%.</p>
<p>I wonder how long it will be until the Harvard overall acceptance rate drops to 1% or less.</p>
<p>^^ When the number of applicants increases from 35,000 to 200,000 which is not going to happen anytime soon. If domestic applications were to climb dramatically, you would quickly start getting into the more marginal or subpar applicant pool. If the rise consisted mainly due to huge increases in international applicants, Harvard would still probably limit its enrollment of international students to 10-11%. Either way, it would not affect the extremely qualified US applicant all that much (still incredibly hard to get in for them though).</p>
<p>Hey guys! You all should chance me…I’m applying for Harvard as well.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1533620-chance-me-princeton-wharton-upenn-dartmouth-cornell-harvard-mit.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1533620-chance-me-princeton-wharton-upenn-dartmouth-cornell-harvard-mit.html</a>
I will chance you all back!</p>
<p>I got admitted RD in March and 99% of the time I have literally no idea what I’m doing. You guys are safe.</p>
<p>Do you know if Harvard bases it’s admits on their interest in the school, like visits and how many other schools you are applying to? I didn’t have an "official’ visit, a friend showed me around the campus and surrounding area.</p>
<p>^An applicant’s interest in Harvard has NO IMPACT on his or her admission decision (unless, perhaps, you write “I’d rather go to Yale” in your app). The fact that you didn’t take a tour or attend a formal info session won’t hurt you at all.</p>
<p>And if Harvard does have the optional essay included in its supplement this year, I would NOT recommend making that a “Why Harvard” essay. </p>
<p>Basically, Harvard’s students and applicants need it more than it needs them. An old dean of admission used to say, “Students will be here for 4 years, profs will be here for 20 years, but Harvard will be here forever.”</p>
<p>I will join POmani. I also got admitted RD to the class of 2017 (likely letter,) and I’ve never put thought into engineering my college application. Most of you seem to be in great shape. Past these scores and grades, I’d say the determining factors will be your essay and recommendation letters. These will weight heavily on whether you get in or not, and even then, a reasonable amount of luck will still be in play.</p>
<p>How does it look for me?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1528012-chance-me-top-schools-good-scores-okay-ec.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1528012-chance-me-top-schools-good-scores-okay-ec.html</a></p>
<p>Back when I was applying to colleges, I read something of this one guidebook I didn’t like. But it did have one really good line. So the whole guidebook was from back before the financial crisis, before that crunch indefinitely (?) postponed Harvard’s plans for a big complex in Allston that would take fifty years to finish. After noting the timeframe there, the guidebook said, “Like the Vatican, Harvard thinks in centuries.” Boom nailed it</p>
<p>@Neutrality</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1420290-chance-threads-please-read-before-posting-one.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1420290-chance-threads-please-read-before-posting-one.html</a>
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<p>And apply early where you want to apply, or talk to your guidance counselor. If your counselor says your high school has a better track record with one or the other for some reason, maybe take that into account; if you want the freedom to apply early to MIT AND Georgetown or another private school, as well as your state school, apply to MIT. Otherwise apply early to the one you like better. As a rando on the Internet, my advice is that if you want to do well in college, you need to stop asking so insistently for advice on the internet from me and my rando peers. Do your research and look inside yourself for what decisions you should make; I can’t help you with insights about where you’d really be happiest from here.</p>
<p>I’m being told to reconsider applying SCEA to Harvard because I’m not a competitive enough applicant. <em>sigh</em> I really need my college counselor right now. Except he left the school…right before my senior year. <em>sigh</em> This is so stressful!</p>
<p>@colllegeluva101 my college counselor also left… We have a new one who doesn’t know anything about our school or the new seniors… This will be interesting to say the least.</p>
<p>^Who told you to reconsider? More “randos” on the internet?</p>
<p>@rokr23, Yeah, I wish he could have stayed just another year to finish up with us. Now I have to try to get to know the new counselor in the 3 months that I have before he/she has to write my counselor recommendation.</p>
<p>@NeutralityACTo36, It was on my chances thread. A couple of people told me I had good chances, but that I should probably only apply SCEA if I really, REALLY want to go, because the applicant pool is really competitive (aka I’m not competitive enough, lol). So now I’m unsure…</p>
<p>If you want to, go for it, if you’re not going to apply ea anywhere else anyway, why not you know? Whether EA actually increases chances is unclear, but anything to help right?</p>
<p>Honestly, whatever. I’m going for it. YOLO, right?</p>
<p>wait this is a little late but bmonticello how tf did you operate a hedge fund in high school…? i couldn’t even find a mentor for research and had to do other things instead lmao.</p>
<p>someone chance me though? i’m really nervous :X but keep in mind that i’m retaking the SAT 
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1530717-chances-harvard-scea-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1530717-chances-harvard-scea-will-chance-back.html</a> thank you!!! and i understand that these are pretty pointless, i just want your opinions on whether i’m a competitive applicant, that’s all. thanks!</p>
<p>A Hedge fund operated by High Schoolers? That’s Crazy…</p>