<p>If you live in the United States, near a metropolitan area of any appreciable size, you should get an interview. Harvard tries to interview all applicants.</p>
<p>Although both my sons sent all their applications for all schools in before the end of October, Harvard wasn’t the very first to contact them for interviews.</p>
<p>Both my sons had good experiences with their Harvard interviews, and for them, especially the older guy, the interview was as much an opportunity for them to learn about Harvard as for the interviewer to learn about them. Feel free to prepare some interesting questions for your interviewers concerning things you’d like to know about Harvard, but aren’t necessarily that easy to discover through on-line research.</p>
<p>Hi guys, what did you all do for your extracurricular paragraph? With the word limit it seems like they just want to hear straight up what you’ve done without any poetic fillers–I just talked about some things I’ve done as VP of a club.</p>
<p>SAT Subject Tests are optional, but considering that a lot of applicants have them… it would help. I tried taking them in June, but there was something wrong with my ticket, and then literally a couple days ago, but I lost my ID on the train… so I’m applying technically without my scores but I’ll state that I’ll be taking them in November. Hopefully that should get in time for Regular Decision, assuming I don’t get rejected… </p>
<p>No, the both applied RD, and both managed to get in. I am a little skeptical of the assertion that applying early provides an actual advantage.</p>
<p>I think that my sons roughly would have answered, if asked, that Harvard was one of several universities that seemed to be a good fit for them. For both my sons, Harvard has highly-regarded programs in the primary fields in which they’re interested. They both wanted to go to a research university. They were aware of the generous financial aid, and frankly, they were significantly influenced by listening to the Dean of Admissions, Dean Fitzsimmons, at an open house that we attended.</p>
<p>Need help guys!
I got an email from an interviewer and I have to fill in this form kind of thing.
They have questions like sat score, gpa etc.
They also have this question:
Three important things we should know about you.
I don’t really know how they want me to answer, do they want to know about my character, achievements, goals etc?</p>
<p>Hey everyone!
I’ve been a little stressed out about my common app and optional essay.
What do you think Harvard values the most for their applicant’s personal statement(identity prompt)?
I have two essays that I am trying to choose from:
One is a creative, poetic essay with a nice opening and ending sentence but less developed in general.
The other is a developed essay with a cliche anecdote opening with a culture ridicule and ending/resolving with nice personal development. This one is not as creative as the first one, however, and does not have as nice a beginning and ending sentence. </p>
<p>Which one would you guys choose? </p>
<p>Also, @PcollegegirlP I think they would want to know whatever you haven’t already mentioned in your application. </p>
<p>I believe if you want to mail your transcripts, @fairyfantasy , they must be mailed by your school directly and they must be in a sealed envelope (stamped and signed by your school), to show that no tampering has been done.
But just to be sure, u shouldn’t hesitate to email Harvard!</p>
<p>Sup guys,
I’m thinking about doing the Harvard supplemental essay on the list of books I’ve read in the last 12 months. I’m considering it for practical reasons (take a bit less time than mastering 600 words essay…) and also because, having spoken to my councillor, it actually be quite beneficial. What do you guys think the pros/cons (if there are any) about doing this essay? I just feel like they might see it as the ‘easy essay’, ja feel?</p>
<p>By the way, this financial aid application is convoluted. Am I supposed to fax in all of this stuff separately?? Why does it involve an application through the college board that costs $16.00 ? And why does it involve FAFSA? I don’t get it…</p>
<p>“Why does it involve an application through the college board that costs $16.00 ?”</p>
<p>Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or… get locked out of financial aid.</p>
<p>If you find a set of coherent reasons why the financial aid process looks precisely as it does, let me know.</p>
<p>For me, it’s enough to just make it through the maze successfully.</p>
<p>However, all that being said, the FAFSA is for eligibility for federal aid, and to provide information related to your federally-calculated Estimated Family Contribution (EFC). The CSS Profile (which I think is the other set of stuff to which you’re referring) permits the schools to tailor their own financial aid profiles of students and their families.</p>
<p>@LucasKovacs Probably okay as long as you are not just recycling the Columbia list of books short essays. Harvard AO’s no doubt are aware of this prompt. They certainly must raise an eyebrow when they receive “a letter to your roommate” essays that Stanford is famous for.</p>
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