<p>Waitlisted!</p>
<p>I also got into Cornell, so I'm not too stressed, but Harvard is still my top choice.</p>
<p>Who else was waitlisted and is now stuck in Harvard-limbo? And anybody with experience know what we should do? Could do? Can do?</p>
<p>I’m a 2013. I got in at Cornell and Harvard waitlisted me as well (my top choice). I ended up at Cornell and am super happy I am here. You will also realize this if you come here. Doesn’t matter too much. To be honest, if Harvard would offer me a transfer admission today I would decline (given that the financial aid is the same).</p>
<p>Harvard waitlist = you are good enough to attend but you were not chosen and you are now in a super competitive pool and will most likely not get in. The sooner you get over with the idea over Harvard the easier. However, if you want to fall for the same mistake I did, hoping and hoping until you get that final “nice” rejection in the end of July and still keep that small chance of getting in, then that is your decision. Anyhow, waitlisting is a nice way of saying you are good but you got kind of rejected.</p>
<p>What you could do is write one page essay like the personal statement but more so as an update of what has happened and reinforce your interest in Harvard.</p>
<p>Good luck in whatever you choose to do! (I wouldnt be suprised to see you at Cornell next semester)</p>
<p>I too am waitlisted… but I also got waitlisted @ princeton, wharton AND columbia… I don’t have too much hope of getting in off the waitlist, but there always is that hope. Hang in there and maybe we’ll both be in Cambridge in 5 months!</p>
<p>So much for being done with this process today. Well, there is no point in giving up now. So I will “actively” wait 
… I’ll be a real pest …</p>
<p>haha thanks for that message reptil! I’ll probably be seeing you on campus :]
The more I hear about Cornell the more I want to go there! Seems like a perfect fit for me.</p>
<p>But I’ll still send a one page essay around late April just for peace of mind. Hang in there everybody! We will all be happy in the end haha</p>
<p>I got waitlisted, but it’s not that big a deal to me. I’ll be perfectly happy in Chicago.</p>
<p>For all those staying on the Harvard waitlist, here’s a little something to sing while you wait …</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hangin’ On (Radio Edit)](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IfTHLi-7rk]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IfTHLi-7rk)</p>
<p>Also got waitlisted. I am not actually expecting anything, but I see no harm in staying on the waitlist. I am going to write a letter reinforcing my interest and updating them. Any idea how many are on the waitlist (or are usually) and the average amount taken off of it (I know it varies greatly from year to year).</p>
<p>D got waitlisted. Got into NYU. Didn’t apply to Cornell. Got rejected from Brown. Oh well…</p>
<p>Got waitlisted at Harvard and Yale.
Rejected at Princeton
Accepted at Brown, UCLA with Regent’s Scholarship, Berkeley, some other UCs, NYU, and USC.
Right now I’m deciding between Brown and UCLA, but I would easily go to Harvard or Yale if I was taken off the waitlist and if by some even greater miracle I was admitted to both I would pick Harvard.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted too. I’m not too broken up by it, I got into every other school I applied to. I will probably be going to Yale or Princeton or Stanford…or…yeah well, I haven’t decided yet. :)</p>
<p>Waitlisted! </p>
<p>This came as a pretty big surprise, not gonna lie. I was expecting a flat-out rejection, lol.
Anyone know the stats of Harvard’s Waitlist from previous years?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/3/31/financial-aid-percent-students/[/url]”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/3/31/financial-aid-percent-students/</a></p>
<p>waitlisted shouldn’t give up hope! I got waitlisted at Penn and Duke (rejected from Harv), but I thought you would like this article. Dean Fitzsimmons basically said he’s hoping to take a lot off the waitlist this year! they took 120 off last year which is more than what both Penn (100) and Duke (75) took last year.</p>
<p>I think Harvard just assumes a really high yield, despite their past results.</p>
<p>Is anyone writing a letter? I was waitlisted and wondering what actions I should take to get off the waiting list.</p>
<p>Does anybody know a reasonable deadline for the letter and etc?</p>
<p>Here are a couple of good articles:</p>
<p>[How</a> To Get Off A College Waitlist](<a href=“http://www.hecaonline.org/waitlist]How”>http://www.hecaonline.org/waitlist)</p>
<p>[College</a> Admissions: Deferral and Waitlists](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_admissions/deferral.htm]College”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_admissions/deferral.htm)</p>
<p>Reach out to your interviewer if you made a connection with them. I’ll be around to give more advice later, but for now… congratulations on achieving what most people don’t! There are certainly no guarantees, but you definitely should not be giving up hope at this point.</p>
<p>Speak with your counselor and your interviewer if you think it’s appropriate, and come up with a game plan. Good luck :)</p>
<p>I got waitlisted too!! I am hoping I will get in…</p>
<p>I got waitlisted, too.
Does anyone have a clue of how many people are waitlisted by Harvard each year?</p>
<p>The number 120 is not correct. There were 85 people who were admitted after being waitlisted. I can assume that Harvard puts around 1500 students on its waitlist. Of these 1500 around 50-65% accept. And in recent years Harvard has accepted around 50-200 students. Let’s midpoint that out to 125 and take the midpoint of 50-65% of 1500 = 863.
125/863 = 15%. This is not a good model but shows how there is no good chance in getting chosen; especially considering that this pool has a very high level. </p>
<p>Last year I did a much better model using regression models across Ivies and their waitlists and applied that to Harvard’s numbers. Anyway, the odds are against you but there is no harm in just trying.</p>