<p>If I am from an over-represented country (e.g. China, Korea) with a yield rate close to 100%, should I basically give up hopes of getting off the waitlist? =(</p>
<p>@dreamhigh91 - No one outside the Harvard admissions office has much sense about your chances or mine. There are roughly 100 people on our group. Pretty much all of them, me included, really want Harvard. An optimistic scenario is that 10% of us will get admitted. It could be higher, or it might be only half that. I’ll be surprised if it’s less than 5 or more than 15 from this group. But how your chances are affected by being international, or a legacy, or a pianist, or from Nebraska is not something we have much chance of knowing. </p>
<p>If you get in but I don’t, I’ll be disappointed, but I’ll still cheer your good fortune. If I get in, I’ll be very happy, but still feel bad about all the very good and talented people in this group who didn’t. But at this point, I suspect most of us have done all we can to influence the outcome.</p>
<p>If the target class size is 1667, that means there are about 63 spots open (since the Crimson article says 1604 accepted Harvard’s offer). And, if you assume that at least 30 students will defer, then maybe about around 90 (or up to 110, if 50 students defer) waitlistees will be offered admission. That doesn’t sound too bad. Even if only 40 or 50 get off the wait list, that’s still better than none.</p>
<p>@dreamhigh91
Don’t worry I’m with you! (also from over represented country where everybody worships Harvard)</p>
<p>@reach4thestars45
IMO the people who defer their admission doesn’t necessarily mean more spots for us. There are people who defer every year, and the ones who deferred last year are going to take the spots of those who defer this year</p>
<p>does anyone know how many students in total are on the waitlist? and would it matter if i sent in my update letter really really late? and is it true that international waitlistees dont really have any chance at all?
up until now i was being positive and thinking “if its gonna happen its gonna happen if its not gonna happen its not happen” but now im getting really nervous… esp because this is pretty much my only option…</p>
<p>@tracyxxx: They factored that in already to how many are matriculating to the Class o’ 2014. It can only mean more spots for us.</p>
<p>@pooooh: if you’re going to send in an update letter now, it would have to be through email, because otherwise it more than likely won’t arrive on time. And you might as well send it in even this late: it’s better than nothing.</p>
<p>I agree with RedlinetoHarvard, you can’t know what the adcoms will do. I think it is about ‘rounding out’ a class and even if you are from a well represented geographic area, you may have other qualities that they absolutely can’t pass up. </p>
<p>At least two International students were admitted from the CC list in 2013. </p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>For the list, I have decided to matriculate at Yale</p>
<p>@Boggler
i already sent the letter, i was just worried that it was a little late. i guess you are right, anythings better than nothing.</p>
<p>i’ll just have my fingers crossed… hopefully i’ll get a call next week</p>
<p>For that list, yes, I stayed on the waitlist. I “sent in a deposit” to Dartmouth (more like I just clicked yes to their offer).</p>
<p>Really, really, really hoping for a miracle to happen.</p>
<p>I faxed my daughter’s update and a week later her Reg Rep emailed her and thanked her for the update.</p>
<p>@HurtLocker, as to your question from post 927 (I’m sorry I don’t kow how to quote) about people who decide that they would like to attend Harvard, I think Fitzsimmons was saying that some people who initially defer admissions for a year take it back and decide to attend the coming year as normal. I’m pretty sure once you tell a college you won’t attend that you cannot go back on that committment.</p>
<p>Welcome! I’m putting college of matriculation in brackets. Please state your own and I’ll add it!</p>
<p>If your name is in bold PLEASE come out and say hi so we can confirm that you are remaining on the waitlist! Thanks!</p>
<p>Updated with wonderful lurkers. More people should come out and join us! (113 people so far; 92 for sure-21 unknown)</p>
<p>1337pi [JHU]
2014ss
999999
Acedyou92 [U. Penn]
Ancalagon4554 [Vanderbilt]
**Ayeeeconnie ** Not staying on?
Astrophy918 (NY)
Az1506
Back2ca [Stanford] probably set with Stanford
Beefinbj (US citizen abroad) trilingual [Mcgill]
BigBalla
Blissfulting
Boggler [TX] math, science, music [U. Penn]
Cali4me [U.C. Berkeley]
CalPeg [U.C. Berkeley]
Carolightning
Chichibi (SoCal) [UCLA]
Cicero<em>oratore (MA) physics/math [JHU]
Clamzoni</em>of_RI Well-rounded, Biochem. Tenor Voice
Courteau91
Daffodils
Dan92 [Yale]
Dee1000
Derivate [Cambridge or Princeton] {Pton for tally}
Djokovik
DoleWhip [Upenn, Wharton]
DreamHigh91
Dsalazar6608 [Upenn, Wharton]
Dx1992
Fenwaylover [Duke]
Floridahopeful [Princeton]
FightTheTide11
Fluffysheep (IN) well-rounded, science [Dartmouth]
ForHarvard
Fraudulence
Gcall1090 ¶ history, psych./math. [William and Mary]
Geoindy [U. Penn]
Goodenough (CA) [Princeton]
Goodluck1 [Yale]
Goyankees1219 ¶ history
grouptheory
Guitar01 (FL) [Columbia]
GuitarPlayer6516 [Emory]
Gunther6456 (NJ) english and technology [WashU]
Handlebars (SoCal) [U.C. Berkeley]
Harvardwaitlist international asian male, math/science
Harvardwannabe4 (TX)
Hhopeful2 [U. Penn]
Hillsongfan [Yale] Probably going to stick with Yale
Hobofishead (TX) [WashU]
HongLong86
Hoomaikai [U. Chicago]
HurtLocker (So. Cal) well-rounded, psych, history
Icelands0 [Columbia]
Idiosyncra3y
Iluv11alot (MD) also on Princeton’s W.L. (UMD)
ItchyTorso (Switzerland)
Jaylay [JHU]
JBK151 [Stanford]
JenRocket
Journeverte (Texas)
KRNpro (WA) well-rounded, humanities [Cornell CAS]
KWWBoarder
Lincoln12 daughter going to [NYU] w/$$ unless…
Macarenaps (Peru) well rounded
Maxgoettler (Germany) [Oxford]
Meowmix0669 [Dartmouth]
Mikezy (Australia)
MorganSimone (NJ) [Princeton]
Mrbopalop1 (WI)
Msauce [Yale]
Navanna [U. Penn]
NCDanceMom not staying on? [UNC-CH]
NYPrepster [Georgetown]
Neapolitan
Nickwasy (MI) math/physics [U. Michigan]
Noaflora (NY) [U. Penn]
Orkinman [Caltech med. Scholar to USCD med. School]
Otsuns [U.C. Berkeley]
Pappa1 (NYC Suburbs) [JHU]
Passiongirl
Plumazul hispanic, concert piano, chem/premed [UMD]
Pooooh intl., needs F.A. [gap yr/ community col.]
Pretzellogic [Williams]
Qizixite (Northeast) mathy subject [U. Chicago]
Quince
Raving (SC) [Princeton]
Reach4thestars45 [Princeton]
RedlinetoHarvard [Dartmouth]
Rtgrove123
Rubin95 [Dartmouth]
Sanguinity [Middlebury]
Scull
Sdedalus [Columbia]
Serendipityyy [Yale]
SeriasB (Florida) [Yale]
Simplywaiting (GA)
Soccerspaz1245 [Princeton or Yale]
SouthKP
Status123
Stressed23 [Northwestern]
Tharp993 (Western NY) [Stanford]
**TheYankInLondon ** Not staying on?
Tibet000000 [Dartmouth]
Titan10 interested in engineering [Notre Dame]
Tony1337
Tracyxxx [U. Chicago]
Verbosely [Columbia]
Vicariousparent probably sticking with Yale [Yale]
Vikroz (MI) cello, science [Hillsdale College]
xxLAJxx
Ynd1234 [Harvey Mudd]
Zachboy</p>
<p>Colleges Attending (67 responses / 92 active waitlistees):
1 Caltech
4 Columbia
1 Cornell
5 Dartmouth
1 Duke
1 Emory
1 Georgetown
1 Harvey Mudd
1 Hillsdale College
4 JHU
1 Mcgill
1 Middlebury
1 Northwestern
1 Notre Dame
1 NYU
1 Oxford
8 Penn
5 Princeton
3 Stanford
4 U.C. Berkeley
1 UCLA
3 U. Chicago
1 UNC-CH
1 U. Michigan
2 UMD
1 Vanderbilt
2 Wash U
1 William and Mary
1 Williams
8 Yale</p>
<p>who do we email our update letter to?</p>
<p>I’m going to Williams, too. I forgot to say.</p>
<p>Ok, my daughter did not apply to Harvard but she is on the MIT waitlist, so I thought I would see some MIT students here in the Harvard waitlist, but I do not see any. i think this is interesting. I thought Harvard and MIT had somehow an overlap.
Good luck to all, the waiting is just terrible.</p>
<p>Wow the thread slowed down to a crawl. No one on our CC list is even going to MIT either. That is strange.</p>
<p>My son wanted to go to MIT and didn’t get in. However, he found out if he gets in Harvard that Harvard and MIT allow cross registration so as a Harvard student he can take classes at MIT.</p>