<p>Hey everyone.
I was fortunate enough to get into Harvard this year. However, i was also waitlisted at Princeton and Yale. I visited harvard and liked it. I am not madly in love with harvard but i am pretty sure I will learn to love and accept harvard eventually. Should I stay on the waitlist? What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>What have you got to lose? It’s not even as if you’d lose a deposit or anything (Harvard doesn’t require one, does it? I know Princeton and Yale don’t). If you do get bumped up, you’ll just have more choice; surely not a bad thing if it’s between Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
You CERTAINLY won’t go wrong with Harvard; but why not stay on the list at the others? :)</p>
<p>^I’d strongly disagree with this line of thinking.</p>
<p>Look at all those H vs Y vs P threads. I think the decision has been made much easier for you.</p>
<p>Go to Harvard and remove your name from the waiting lists. You’ll do a big favor to many on the waiting list who have concrete reasons to want to go to Princeton. </p>
<p>(this of course, is only my opinion)</p>
<p>I don’t think I see the logic in that.
If you get offered a place from the waiting list, and decide not to take it, is that spot not offered to the next person on the list that the admissions office deems qualified?
And if you end up not going to Harvard, doesn’t that open up a spot for someone on the waiting list there (who you’re ostensibly supposed to be so concerned about having better reasons than you to want to attend; “concrete reasons”).
Who, exactly, do you end up robbing of a choice in the long run except yourself?</p>
<p>I do however think there is a good point to what the previous poster said; and that is that Choice can be paralyzing. But some people prefer to have the choice between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. If you’re not one of them, then it’s true that things have been made easier for you. If you are, though (and this is something I’m inclined to think only you are going to be able to figure out for yourself), then I’ll ask again, what have you got to lose? :)</p>
<p>If you really have your heart set on Princeton, and WOULD take it if you get off the waitlist, then I suggest you stay on the waitlist.</p>
<p>Do you have a first choice among them and is it not Harvard? If so stay on that wait list. If not, your decision is made. </p>
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<p>Well, the choice has been made for OP in the first place. The OP has not been admitted, but waitlisted. These are obviously comparable schools each with its own strengths. </p>
<p>Nothing in the original post suggests that OP is very keen about Princeton. Unless there’s something particular about Princeton that you think Harvard would not offer, I don’t see the point of remaining on the waiting list and prolonging the wait for yourself and others. I agree with WindCloudUltra, stay on the waiting list only: </p>
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<p>You’ve indicated that you are not “in love” with Harvard but have not given us a sense of how you feel about Princeton and Yale. I’m left to assume, then, that you are either undecided about them or prefer them over Harvard. (I know, at the least, that my discussions with current Harvard students have convinced me that Princeton and Yale are better places to have an undergraduate academic and social experience.)</p>
<p>If this is indeed the case for you, staying on the waitlists and then getting accepted have merely superficial downsides: extra waiting time and extra decision making. Staying on the waitlists and getting rejected has likewise superficial downsides: extra waiting time and any injury you sustain from rejection. Not staying on the waitlist, if it turns out that Yale and Princeton are your preferences (which, again, they would be for me), carries a potentially worse opportunity cost.</p>
<p>Best of luck. And if you don’t stay on the waitlist, all the more room for me! :)</p>
<p>I think it’s pretty simple. If you prefer either Princeton or Yale to Harvard stay on the waitlists.</p>
<p>^^^^ duh! Simple.</p>
<p>If you prefer Princeton( or Yale) you should absolutely stay on their waitlists. A few years ago a student at my Daughters’ school ( a year older than D1) was admitted to Harvard,waitlisted at Princeton. He let Princeton know about his Harvard admission and that Princeton was his first choice-he came off the Princeton waitlist fairly early in May, and is attending. D1 is a sophomore at Princeton, loves it, did not care for Cambridge or New Haven. D2 was just admitted to Princeton and will be attending. I would think that both Yale and Princeton would love to “take” a student from Harvard- so I would stay on their waitlists and let them know you prefer them to Harvard if that is the case.</p>
<p>Good Luck and Congratulations!!!</p>
<p>Think carefully about what Princeton and Yale offer you that Harvard does not. No school is perfect; you might not initially find that “warm fuzzy feeling” at any of them. </p>
<p>But I’m with silverturtle in thinking that P and Y offer superior undergraduate experiences. If you agree, the waitlist might be the best decision.</p>
<p>It is an interesting thought that Princeton and Yale would let you in from their waitlist if they know that you have been admitted to Harvard and would attend Princeton or Yale instead…</p>
<p>you got into Harvard- it’s the most famous university in the world. Why would you even care about P and Y if they waitlisted you?</p>
<p>It was like in grad school, when I got into Stanford, UCB and MIT and rejected by Southern California. I mean who cares about USC?</p>
<p>^^^so cmburns, are you saying that a student should attend a university simply because it is “the most famous university in the world”?</p>
<p>and your comparison is way off</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale and Princeton are a lot closer for an undergraduate education than the graduate departments of Stanford, MIT and UCB are to USC (except for a couple departments like film).</p>
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<p>I can think of some good reasons.</p>