<p>Did anyone else get a phone call from Harvard this summer? Only two people at my school did (myself included). The lady just said nice job with high school and that I should consider Harvard. I’m pretty sure this doesn’t mean much, but I was wondering if anyone else got a call from them and could shed some light on its significance.</p>
<p>maybe you should've asked. perhaps you should tell us some more information about yourself if we are to speculate</p>
<p>someone at my school got a call like that...</p>
<p>2 other ppl and i have gotten a call</p>
<p>ive been getting a lot of calls from crap schools. maybe it means they have a particular interest in you</p>
<p>i havent received any calls from other schools, but i get too much mail. I found out today that University of Alabama will pay me to go there, so now my parents are making me apply. To LAgal and the others who got calls, do you know what prompted them, because mine was before National Merit or any other significant stuff. It was really random.</p>
<p>yeah, mine and one of the other people who got calls were both before national merit...as far as i know, the third person got a call recently/after nat'l merit (but he wasn't a semi-, only commended)...i'm thinking if you've taken the act/sat and done well and sent your scores to harvard...demonstrated interest through campus visits, maybe? lemme know if you find out; i'm curious to know, too</p>
<p>i think it's almost semi-random.. i got one in the summer b/c it was like a minority recruiting thing for qualified students... but im semi and no one i know that's a semil has gotten any calls</p>
<p>I've gotten a lot of calls from schools I'd never heard of before and random people for surveys about college selection. </p>
<p>I didn't want to tell the schools that I'd never heard of them before, so I ended up staying on the phone for twenty minutes per call, listening to them describe the school and its programs, asking questions so I wouldn't be rude, and then ranking the schools on a scale of 1-5 for a list of categories, hazarding a guess for most of them or saying "Not enough information to base a judgement on." </p>
<p>Now I've figured out that it doesn't really hurt their feelings if I politely say that I have already chosen my final list of schools to apply to and that I was no longer considering their school, but thanks for taking the time to call me. </p>
<p>But no calls from Harvard :-(</p>
<p>LOL, chatterjoy, i can't believe you talked with colleges you've never heard about on the phone for TWENTY minutes? you could've just said you're busy at the moment</p>
<p>I put Harvard down as my school of choice for National Merit. Probably not a good choice because even if I do get accepted, I won't be getting any sort of merit aid, but my counselor told me to put down my first-choice school, so that's that.</p>
<p>Did the rest of you do that too?</p>
<p>I have undecided as my NM first choice right now. I think I'll either keep it like that, or put down a school that doesn't give NM money (Harvard, for instance), so I have the best shot at the $2,500. Only one school that I'm applying to (Ohio State) gives money to Finalists, but I really hope that's not where I end up.</p>
<p>Well, now I know better, ivyleaguechamp! But I just have this really overreactive conscience, bordering on paranoia...like Jiminy Cricket on steroids, so I'm always afraid that the people on the other end of the phone will be offended.</p>
<p>Although, in retrospect, if they found out that they wasted 20 minutes talking to a kid who had no clue what their school was like and had no intention of applying, they probably WOULD have reason to be offended.</p>
<p>heh, well if they have to hire people to call us up, they have to figure that they are not very well known. personally, i just politely ask them to end all contact with me</p>
<p>with a name like chatterjoy, i guess you must like to talk, right?</p>
<p>lol, yeah I do, I guess I just encourage them. </p>
<p>haha, what do you say, "Please never call me ever again"?</p>
<p>It's usually students that call me. At first I thought it was awesome (some girl with a hot southern accent from TCU called). Then, it got annoying (Cornell College in Iowa calling multiple times). And then I started telling them I wasn't interested (which was harder than I thought it'd be). </p>
<p>I think Harvard might have called me, but I wasn't home, and they didn't leave a number. I don't think it was a big deal.</p>
<p>Amherst's football coach calling was awesome, though.</p>
<p>Congrats just<em>forget</em>me! Are you thinking of doing football in college? I think I'd do intramural swimming, because most of the schools I applied to are Division I or II (although being in the swimming team at UM...when Michael Phelps trains there...). It's been a part of my life for so long that I'd hate to let it go. Plus it should help keep the freshman fifteen at bay!</p>
<p>I couldn't play football at a place like Harvard, I'm not big/fast enough. I'd love to play at a DIII school like Amherst, if I don't get in to some of my top choices for academics. I'm sure I'll do some sort of intermural no matter where I go. Like you said, sports have been a huge part of my life for a really long time.</p>
<p>"thanks, but i'm not interested" usually works pretty well cj :D. </p>
<p>just<em>forget</em>me, you look exactly like someone i know! are you hosting pictures for everyone?</p>
<p>Everyone's welcome to use that webshots account. I made a couple posts about it, but mods kept deleting them, so I basically gave up. The password is "collegeconf" if you want to log in and post stuff.</p>