<p>@reach4thestars45: Same here. Although, I never really learned AP Chem the first time around, so it’s more like my goal is to just learn chem. My teacher is one of those teachers where you can tell that they themselves are geniuses, but they are incapable of coming down to our level and imparting any of their genius on us.</p>
<p>I really should be working on my end of year paper for my AP Lit class right now (that is what he is giving us the class time for after all haha), but eh. It’s less than a week after the AP test, and I could write this paper in about 2 hours (he let us choose our own topics, and I just did the power of names in Ulysses–superficially impressive, but ridiculously easy if you read just the sparknotes character summaries haha)</p>
<p>qizixite: Thank you for continually updating the list of where we’ve said Yes while awaiting word from H. Add me to the Columbia group. Cheers, S.D.</p>
<p>Updated Dedalus and Raving! Glad to help. Unfortunately there is no yield news today. I am confident it will come out this week but The Crimson is certainly taking its time.</p>
<p>I thought this would be an interesting topic of debate; Is anyone leaning against attending Harvard if they got off the waitlist? Just looking at the colleges which we are matriculating at I can see a lot of reasons to attend colleges like Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Harvey Mudd, Caltech… For the unique opportunities that those colleges offer. It is probably easier to answer “yes” until you actually get off Harvard’s waitlist, but any thoughts? I’ll share mine if someone else shares theirs!</p>
<p>I’m pretty committed to attending harvard if I get in, the tough part would be if I got z-listed; I’m matriculating at Georgetown as it is, after a tough decision between there and JHU and I’m really thrilled to be in DC next year. If Harvard came through I’d be ecstatic, but no complaints so far :)</p>
<p>It seems I’m the only Hoya on this list so far!</p>
<p>“The high yield of admitted students means that Harvard will admit fewer students from the waiting list than in recent years. “Currently, we expect to be able to admit between 65 to 75 students,” said Marlyn E. McGrath, director of admissions. “We will begin the selection meetings this coming week and complete our work by July 1.””</p>
<p>If Ms. McGrath is correct, I am going to give myself props for post #305. After random analysis detailed there, I said:
“62 < the number of students accepted off the waitlist. < 78”</p>
<p>The idea of waiting until July 1st is somewhat annoying but predictable.</p>
<p>Gee the yield isn’t looking too good for us, seems like I better send one more update!
Just a question, can I send in my update in bulletin form?
i.e. Voted ***
*** Award
Blah blah blah</p>
<p>I guess 60 or 70 students being accepted off the Harvard wait list is better than none. But when the director of admissions says that they’ll complete their work by July 1, does that mean that accepted students won’t hear back until July 1?? </p>
<p>It’s crazy to think that we applied to Harvard on January 1 and we might hear back from them 1/2 a year later.</p>
<p>That is exciting. And maybe when they say they’ll finish by July 1, that means that they’ll begin taking people off the wait list soon, and they’ll continue to do so to create a full freshman class until July 1 like most other schools.</p>
<p>And in regards to your previous question, about whether we would accept Harvard’s offer if admitted - I am not entirely sure. I’ve fallen in love with Princeton. And yet, somehow I feel that Harvard is the only school that could ever possibly tear me away. It would be a very tough decision. After I got into Brown, I remember wishing I hadn’t even gotten in so I wouldn’t have such a hard choice to make. I guess I didn’t learn my lesson, because I’m still hoping I get into Harvard (even though I know that decision would be 10x harder…)</p>
<p>Well this isn’t very good news, is it? It’s not horrible, but I guess Harvard and Stanford cleaned up. It will probably end up being around 80 people in the end due to the fact that some people do not accept the waitlist offer.</p>
<p>Well it seems they’re not even starting deliberations until next week, so we probably won’t even hear until the week after that. We might not hear until the end of May.</p>
<p>Kudos to SDedalus whose post 676 predicted that 60-70 slots would open up. I suspect the other parts of his post as to timeline are equally accurate.</p>
<p>That’s disappointing… I feel like the healthiest thing to do would be to try and forget about the Harvard wait list for awhile, so I can focus on finishing high school and get excited for graduation.</p>