<p>Don’t you think it is funny that for the next month we are begging for the yield to be as low as possible; but if any of us get in (which we will! Optimism!) Then as undergraduates at Harvard we will be hoping for the yield to be as high as possible?</p>
<p>I’d still hope for low yield…I’ll route for the waitlisters all the time and every time.</p>
<p>But that’s the problem; If yield was lower one year, more applicants would be accepted the next year to make up for it. So unless you want to hope for the yield to go down every year, you are really hoping for a significant drop in yield this year followed by a steady yield in the coming years… I think that makes sense. </p>
<p>Another strange idea: we have to get really excited for the college we are going to next year while still being willing to give up that college for Harvard. Ahhhhhhh. The thought process is so confusing.</p>
<p>-Optimism!</p>
<p>@qizixite: Yeah, it is like a limbo, isn’t it? Don’t worry. All will become clear soon enough :-). One of my friends bought me this bookmark that says a quote: “The greatest power is often simple patience.”</p>
<p>Welcome qizixite … We are now 36.</p>
<p>astrophy918 (NY)
beefinbj (US citizen abroad) - trilingual (reading, writing, speaking in all of them)
Boggler
carolightning
cicero<em>oratore (MA) - physics/math
Clamzoni</em>of_RI- Well-rounded w/ emphasis on Biochem. and Tenor Voice
daffodils
DoleWhip
DreamHigh91
dx1992
fluffysheep (IN)- the blunt well-rounded type with a special thing for science
goyankees1219 ¶
gunther6456
HurtLocker (So. Cal) - well-rounded with a leaning toward music, psych, and history
ItchyTorso (Switzerland)
JenRocket
KRNpro (WA) - well-rounded poor man with a inclination towards the humanities
Macarenaps (Peru) well rounded
MorganSimone (NJ)
mrbopalop1 (WI)
MSauce
Neapolitan
nickwasy
pappa1 (NYC Suburbs)
passiongirl
plumazul (Maryland) Hispanic, Concert Pianist, Chemistry/Music/premed trilingual …
qizixite(northeast) interested in some sort of mathy subject
raving(SC)
RedlinetoHarvard
serendipityyy
simplywaiting (GA)
SouthKP
Tharp993
tracyxxx
vikroz (MI) - cello, science
Zachboy</p>
<p>There are getting to be more of us. Hopefully all will go well. A yield of under 75% would be enough to give me hope.</p>
<p>quixite, I think it was northstarmom who has said several times that if you have fallen in love with harvard once, you can always do it again. So get really excited for the school to which you have committed and know that harvard is still out there for you.</p>
<p>Welcome qizixite! Glad to have a number-cruncher here to speculate and kum-bay-ya with us. I think we’re all realistic about our chances, but it doesn’t hurt to hope.</p>
<p>I truly think the yield will be much lower this year simply because more kids applied to more schools than ever. How many more applicants did Harvard have this year? It was a huge number and it’s not because there are more kids.</p>
<p>This is a unique year with tons of cross-admits at HYPMS etc. My kid got on six freaking waitlists. Crazy.</p>
<p>By the way, on the cross-admits thread, the current stats are:</p>
<p>HYPSM Cross-Admit Yields
H: 6/18
Y: 16/24
P: 10/26
S: 4/19
M: 2/11</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/920080-harvard-yale-princeton-stanford-mit-cross-admits-class-2014-a-7.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/920080-harvard-yale-princeton-stanford-mit-cross-admits-class-2014-a-7.html</a></p>
<p>This year out of 30,489 applicants, Harvard accepted 2,110. The average Harvard freshmen class is around 1660 (meaning that Harvard already expects around 450 to decline the offer of admission).
Nonetheless, I wish the best of luck to all of you! Never lose hope!</p>
<p>@HurtLocker: Six waiting lists?! O_O </p>
<p>Well, I am just waiting for that article…</p>
<p>Hi Hurtlocker: first of all, great movie! Secondly, the cross-admit thread is being taken over by current students at those schools who want to make their school look good. so it really isn’t that relevant. Still, perhaps the yield will be 33% (cross your fingers).</p>
<p>I know the data in that cross-admit thread is not to be taken seriously in any way. I just meant that it’s fun to read. To see that H actually gets rejected A LOT is comforting in those late cold lonely nights when you click refresh 100 times in a desperate attempt to get sliver of new news. :)</p>
<p>I hope that sometime this week we will have the official yield numbers.</p>
<p>true. Refreshing does get boring.</p>
<p>Cicero, I think the Crimson has released their yield article pretty consistently on May 8th. For example over the last two years,</p>
<p>[Yield</a> Holds Steady For 2013 | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/5/8/yield-holds-steady-for-2013-seventy/]Yield”>Yield Holds Steady For 2013 | News | The Harvard Crimson)
[College</a> Sees No Change in Admissions Yield | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2008/5/8/college-sees-no-change-in-admissions/]College”>College Sees No Change in Admissions Yield | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>On the other hand for the class of 2011, the article came out on May 17th:</p>
<p><a href=“http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/05/yield-for-the-class-of-2011-nears-80-percent/[/url]”>http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/05/yield-for-the-class-of-2011-nears-80-percent/</a></p>
<p>Although those were all based on preliminary data, and as can be seen in the second link, can be changed pretty radically.</p>
<p>-Optimism!</p>
<p>My favorite line from last years article …</p>
<p>“Yield … 66 percent for Latino” students … :)</p>
<p>any info about Native american yield, I know H doubled its admittance for NA</p>
<p>geoindy, are you on the Harvard waitlist?</p>
<p>yes along with Princeton</p>
<p>I was waitlisted at HYP, so I figure that at least one of the schools has to take a significant amount of students from their wait list…</p>