<p>...to ask about the waiting list. They said that they're giving accepted applicants until 9:30am (or maybe it was pm) Tuesday to reply by e-mail or any method (because post was due a long time ago) and then they'll see if they'll use the waiting list. He also said that there are a couple hundred on the waiting list, and that if they do resort to it, they will inform applicants by later next week or the week after.</p>
<p>Good luck...
Hopefully CCers will be happy anywhere they go.</p>
<p>And....
Thanks Byerly, and all the supportive figures on CC.</p>
<p>...afterthought -- if Harvard's being so lenient about deadline (since they say that "yes" cards received after the 5/3 deadline will only be accepted if there is still more spots available in the class), at least that means they definitely did not overaccept and have more spots to fill.</p>
<p>Anybody else worried that somehow the admissions office will get mixed up and give their spot in the class to someone else, even though Harvard is where they plan to attend. </p>
<p>Maybe I'll call tomorrow just to verify that they know I'm coming in the fall.</p>
<p>lindsey, yes. Like you we aere concerned so we faxed the accpetance, mailed the acceptance and after few days called them. Then only we sent out all the other rejections.</p>
<p>"if Harvard's being so lenient about deadline (since they say that "yes" cards received after the 5/3 deadline will only be accepted if there is still more spots available in the class), at least that means they definitely did not overaccept and have more spots to fill."</p>
<p>I don't think that's what it means. I think that Harvard wants to give accepted students every opportunity to accept Harvard. Those students are Harvard's first choice. Harvard also knows that things like mail delays, family emergencies, etc. can cause acceptances to be delayed.</p>
<p>The same thing happens with the deadlines about when applications need to be sent in. Harvard doesn't automatically reject applications that come in a couple of days late.</p>
<p>Due to the large volume of mail that comes in at deadline, the mail isn't opened right away anyway. It doesn't even get to the admissions office right away since it has to go through the Harvard campus mail office. For this reason, I have heard adcoms tell applicants not to bother Fedexing applications so that they get there exactly by the deadline.</p>
<p>I just emailed the admissions officer from my area and she said that they just calculated the yield rate today and Harvard will be taking only 15 people off the waitlist this year. Sorry to be the carrier of bad news.</p>
<p>wow...that's an extremely small amount...doing some quick math....</p>
<p>at one end of the spectrum (200 people on the list) there's a 7.5% acceptance rate, while on the other (1000 people), a pathetic 1.5%...well, goodbye Harvard undergrad! Hopefully I'll have better odds in 4 years....</p>
<p>I may know better by Thursday night. Only 15 off the waitlist would mean a yield jump of almost 1% from last year, even though they took fewer EA.</p>
<p>15 people! Does anybody know how they look at the waitlisted? Is it internationals in one group and domestics in another, or is everybody evaluated against one another?</p>