Decided to start it up lol. What’s up guys! Where’s everyone from, are you going to Harvard, etc. Lets try and fight the temptation to post stats lol but if you want to its fine.
Hello! I’m from Oregon and assuming I don’t absolutely despise it when I go to Visitas, I’ll be going to Harvard this fall. 
I’m still so surprised that I even got in.
There’s already a thread to post stats, which is used to help future applicants. I encourage you to post your stats there, and not in this thread!
@radmadeline see you there! I’m so excited for visitas too! And thanks @GregB777 Lol
@BChopeful97 You’re welcome!
And congratulations!
I’m a Harvard alum. I can tell you from personal experience:
Your life’s about to change…
At this point, y’all may as well just join the class facebook group, so you can put a face to these usernames… and put a real name to these usernames, for that matter!
As yes, as a Yale alum and a Yale freshman parent I say Congrats!! I know many kids at Harvard, including one of my D’s best friends. And, while they have a great rivalry going on between them, they both love their schools equally. I know many happy Harvard students. You will love it too.
Thank you! @Tperry1982
Hey guys! It’s still so surreal to have been admitted.
Congrats! i know the feeling lol @shankar334
I’m so excited for this fall but also so nervous…as dumb as this sounds, I’m concerned about whether or not I’ll be smart enough to keep up once I’m there. I know that they wouldn’t have accepted me if they didn’t think I could do it, but my high school is far less academically challenging than some schools so I’m a bit worried D:
@radmadeline I felt similarly when I was heading to Harvard after high school. Not to worry you more, but my experience is that your concern is legit, especially if you’re a math or science person.
My advice would be: Make sure you’re taking the proper level of class.
Harvard is hard. The workload is enormous…
But you can do it!!!
@GregB77777 Thankfully I am neither a math nor science person (writing is my best skill) so hopefully that’ll help. Thank you for the advice – I’ll make sure not to try and do more than I can handle, especially this first year!
I’m a math and science person and from a not so good school district. But I do love the humanities so I hope I will live up to Harvard’s expectations
@shankar334 The point is not to live up to Harvard’s expectations, but to your own!
I did graduate with an honors AB in physics, even though my high school physics program was terrible (and NO AP Physics.)
Although I started behind some others, I still ended up in the same place. I do think I probably had to work a little harder.
The point is, if you were accepted, you have the ability to do it!
@radmadeline I think that’s probably the correct approach. (I didn’t follow it myself, but probably would today if I had to do it over again. I took the absolute hardest classes on the very edge of my ability… and worked like crazy.)
Besides classwork, the first year at Harvard will be challenging enough for other reasons. Give yourself a chance to settle in and do well… and to meet people! That’s the one small regret I have about my Harvard experience. If I had to do it over again, I would have spent less time studying and more time meeting the extraordinary people that were my classmates.
Because, to be honest, you’re never going to be in such a place again surrounded by the caliber of student you will be. Harvard is a strange, terrible, wonderful, hard, exciting… unique… place.
But it’s not the place that matters: It’s the people.
Get out of the library and look around once and awhile!
Has anyone received his/her acceptance package?
@GregB77777 Thank you for the words of wisdom! Meeting new people is one of the things I’m looking forward to most, so I’ll make sure to apply what you said to my experience
@shankar334 also no, I haven’t gotten mine yet but I imagine some will get theirs in the next day or two. I live so far away that I think it will take time for mine to arrive.
Do you think it would be silly to frame my acceptance letter? I’m still a little giddy about getting in!
@radmadeline According to old threads, it’s a pretty nice letter. So no, I’d probably do the same. I live in NY and got my Yale package today so I expect to receive Harvard’s tomorrow or Saturday.