<p>Ughhh this feeling sucks. I feel like complete crap, even though I know it's Harvard... I've already been deferred once too :(. </p>
<p>I know that it's nearly impossible to get off the waitlist, but anyone know how big the list is?</p>
<p>It's gonna be ginormous. I'd just look elsewhere and not get attached.</p>
<p>I actually consider it a semi-achievement, considering it's harvard</p>
<p>does anyone have any good figures as to what number or % constitutes "ginormous?"</p>
<p>Waitlisted too.</p>
<p>They say it is a small percentage though..
How do they pick who gets out of the waitlist? Is it need-blind? Or do ppl with no fin aid needed get in before others?</p>
<p>Also waitlisted...</p>
<p>I'm not sure about how they pick off the waitlist though...they said they reconvene so we'll see, but I'm guessing Harvard will get a really high yield this year and might not pick anyone off it at all.</p>
<p>waitlisted...</p>
<p>I wish I were anything but Asian. ANYTHING.</p>
<p>Now I just want to get off the waitlist just to turn Harvard down for MIT.</p>
<p>I'm guessing 0 off the waitlist</p>
<p>Also waitlisted...</p>
<p>by the way here's the letter for anyone who wants to see it,</p>
<p>Dear Mr. ******,</p>
<p>I am writing to inform you that the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid cannot at this time make a final decision on your application for a place in next year's entering class. However, because of your outstanding achievements and promise, the Committee has voted to place your name on a waiting list of men and women for whom we hope places may become available later.</p>
<p>This year over twenty-seven thousand students, a record number, applied for admission to the entering class. There were many more candidates of unusual ability and promise than we were able to admit. Of those strong applicants, the Committee has selected a group -- representing a small percentage of all our candidates and presenting qualifications which might well have led to admission in other years -- to comprise a waiting list. The waiting list is not ranked. If spaces become available, the Committee will reconvene to reconsider all those candidates on the waiting list. Usually about two-thirds of the students offered places on the waiting list choose to remain active candidates.</p>
<p>The number of students to be admitted from our waiting list will depend entirely on the number of students who decline our offer of admission. That number has varied greatly from year to year. In some recent years, we have admitted over one hundred candidates. In other years, it has not been possible to admit anyone from the waiting list.</p>
<p>We recognize that you must make plans at another college while you await our final decision. Please be assured that all colleges will understand your situation and that we will proceed as quickly as possible to reach a decision. Normally, most waiting list decisions are made by the end of May and all are completed by early July. To help expedite this process, please return the enclosed postcard or reply to our offer online at <a href="https://admapp.admissions.fas.harvard.edu/hanevo/waitlist-haNevoLanding.do%5B/url%5D">https://admapp.admissions.fas.harvard.edu/hanevo/waitlist-haNevoLanding.do</a> by May 1st.</p>
<p>We hope you will decide to remain a candidate. Over the years, some of our very best students have been admitted from our waiting list.</p>
<p>Again, please accept our congratulations on your outstanding achievements. Whatever your decision may be, you have our best wishes for every future success.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>William R. Fitzsimmons
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid</p>
<p>..................</p>
<p>I'm guessing the waitlist is between 1000-5000 people if it really is a "small percentage." Don't really buy it though</p>
<p>me too
did yall accept or reject it?</p>
<p>I'm already setting myself up for the mental preparation to go to one of my other colleges, but there's no harm in putting myself up for the Harvard lottery (: Harv's my fave.</p>
<p>I want to know how many people have been wait-listed. maybe an article will come out in the near future with all the numbers... </p>
<p>I just accepted the wait list option and paid my deposit for my other school...
I was counting on today for a final decision from harvard so i can finalize travel arrangements. now i still don't know whether i'll be on the east coast or the west coast for the next 4 years....</p>
<p>Waitlisted
The list will be larger than in past years because of schools' less-predictable yield in this year of change (no Harvard or Princeton Early option).</p>
<p>Same here....damn waitlisted but sort of proud at the same time.</p>
<p>Rejected from Yale and Princeton
Waitlisted at Harvard, Columbia, and Stanford</p>
<p>Well I am off to UCLA or UC Berkeley....xD</p>
<p>Waitlisted as well- the letter made me feel good tho!
so Stanford or Columbia for me!</p>
<p>In at Yale and Princeton, but waitlisted at Harvard!</p>
<p>The waitlist must be huge because as of now, I know 6 people from my 150-person school who have been waitlisted..</p>
<p>Waitlisted here and at Columbia, but was rejected at Brown and Cornell (what the heck? i know).</p>
<p>I'm off to NYU Stern for now...</p>
<p>What should I do to even try and get off the waitlist? Write a letter?</p>
<p>dwindlelights- me too. rejected at Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Columbia.. waitlisted at Dartmouth and Brown.</p>
<p>UCLA or Cal, here I come :P</p>