<p>I just realized that you can submit 3 teachers LoR (Letter of Recommendation) plus 2 other LoR. Basically you can submit up to 5 LoR. My daughter only requested two of her teachers to write LoR, so her application only has 2 LoR. How many LoRs do you guys have in your Harvard application?</p>
<p>Interview went fantastic! Great 2 hour conversation about life and Harvard.</p>
<p>@2019mom: I submitted two teacher recs and a counselor rec! </p>
<p>my interview was only 45 minutes, and I’m really nervous about it. It didn’t go poorly, but it wasn’t some over the top outstanding interview. ugh. I wish it was. At least she doesn’t have anything bad to say about me. I just don’t think it will help admissions in any way, shape, or form. at all. </p>
<p>@2019mom It’s fine. There’s a reason why Harvard only asks for 2 teacher recs and 1 counselor rec- they believe that the information provided in these required recs is sufficient enough to understand the applicant. In fact, I think Yale explicitly discourages supplementary recommendations, unless they reveal something special about the applicant. </p>
<p>Most admitted students only provide the required number of recommendations. </p>
<p>@2019mom </p>
<p>2 Teacher recs; 1 Counselor rec; 1 Addl. rec</p>
<p>General advice is to NOT submit anything that could ever be construed as being extraneous.
Even my single addl. rec is pushing it.
The two recs that your daughter submitted should be fine-- unless, of course, there is an important side of her not reflected in her application that could be reflected through a letter from a particular mentor/coach/tutor, etc.</p>
<p>EDIT: ninja’d by @Ambitious19 
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<p>@oxoxhawja3xoxo Don’t worry! Interviews don’t even play a big role in the admissions decision. Colleges just want to make sure you’re capable of higher-level thinking and speaking. </p>
<p>In fact, if you look on past results threads, you’ll see that a lot of deferred/rejected students reported AMAZING interviews where the interviewer even subtly implied they would get in, while many accepted students reported mediocre but substantive interviews. There appears to be little correlation between acceptance and interview quality. Of course, it doesn’t hurt if you had a great interview, but don’t be scared by people who say their interviews were long and amazing. </p>
<p>One of my friends last year had a 6 HOUR long interview with a Dartmouth alum, but she ended up getting rejected and now she’s at UC San Diego, which is still a pretty good school. </p>
<p>My school said it submitted my other three LoRs after submitting the required two, but the other three don’t show up on the portal. The two LoRs originally submitted show up on the portal, but the other three that my school claimed to have submitted after I submitted my application do not. </p>
<p>Does that mean Harvard hasn’t received them yet? What do I do?</p>
<p>Same thing happened here so don’t worry. Status Portal only show required documents. You can always email or call them and ask, though. </p>
<p>It looks like most people here submitted more than 2 LoRs (Letter of Recommendation). If we read common app carefully, we would submit one more LoR. Now it is too late. Hopefully, the submiited two LoRs will be strong enough.</p>
<p>My interviewer need me to “List the three books that have interested you most in the last year”. Does any of your interviewer has this requirement?</p>
<p>@artgirl0000: I had that question on my pre-interview form! </p>
<p>@frozens Me too. It is also on the pre_interview resume (My interview calls it resume).</p>
<p>My interview was strange…</p>
<p>My interviewer didn’t want a resume or a pre-interview questionaire. Our interview lasted 1 hr and 10 minutes but I feel like I didn’t share enough about myself. She said she would write a good report for me and asked me to tell her my eventual admissions decision. </p>
<p>Having mixed feelings because it seemed kind typical.</p>
<p>In our area, we have to register online. I saw each interview has exactly one hour time slot. We also need to fill many questions, like GAP/SAT/ACT, school activities, community activities, etc</p>
<p>@PoorKid41: I had a similar form…it looks like it’s used by many Harvard clubs! </p>
<p>@frozen Maybe we will be interviewed by the same Harvard club. </p>
<p>@PoorKid41: Haha, it’s possible! I’m in NY state.
Also, guys, we have the most posts by far of any Ivy’s (+Stanford’s) early action/decision thread. Go Harvard 2019 SCEA applicants! 
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<p>I think there are more students apply H SCEA than any other SCEA (Y/P/S). Since H accepted more students in the early round than Y/P/S in previous couple of years.</p>
<p>Actually for the 2018 SCEA cycle, the numbers for Harvard and Yale are pretty comparable (4,692 and 4,750 respectively). Yale had a few more applicants, but not by a huge margin. Stanford on the other hand had significantly more applicants than both in the same cycle, at 6,948. Princeton had the least SCEA applicants, at 3,854. So while Harvard does have a higher acceptance rate for SCEA, in the last application cycle they had less applicants than Yale and Stanford :)</p>