<p>Again, another curiosity question. What do undergraduate student employees at Harvard admission office do? </p>
<p>(and are they allowed to read common app stuffs?)</p>
<p>[Don't</a> Touch That File | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/4/30/dont-touch-that-file-by-the/]Don’t”>Don't Touch That File | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>“The students who work in the office create thousands of folders nearly each day.”</p>
<p>"Students alphabetize, file, and “scrutinize” about once a month, after they have put together many applications.</p>
<p>“We sit at a file drawer and look at every single piece of paper to make sure it’s in the right place,” says Adams. “We check to make sure the drawer is in alphabetical order, and in each folder the names are correct. You cannot do it for more than two hours without losing your mind.”</p>
<p>Over winter break, Anderson leads a team of students from the Boston area who work full time to put 14,000 folders together in four weeks. </p>
<p>Anderson, who was responsible for more than 40 fellow soldiers when he served in the army before coming to Harvard, says the leadership style demanded by his current responsibilities is comparable but that the people he “commands” here have different expectations.</p>
<p>“Here I spend a lot more time explaining why students are doing what they are doing and the steps they must take to remain organized,” he says, comparing them to soldiers who were more ready to simply carry out the tasks he gave them without question.</p>
<p>And though the student workers have full access to applicants’ materials, they are trained in non-disclosure laws and Adams says they rarely look twice at any of the information. </p>
<p>“You’d think it’s this really glamorous thing where we have all this insight, but when you see the sheer number of materials that we are working with,” she says, “it just turns into paper, almost.”</p>
<p>Hmmm… Why so curious…? </p>
<p>Just curious. Lol.</p>
<p>Basic organization. My big sister spent a time working in MIT admissions and said although technically they aren’t supposed to look at the files they can, but after sorting through and seeing so many files it quickly loses its intrigue.</p>
<p>Is this the same sister who is at Harvard? Or do you have more than one sister? Or, did you lose track as a newbie poster? Or, as I suspect, are you just posting garbage to every thread so you can to accumulate 15 posts? </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1439352-supplementary-materials-video-game.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1439352-supplementary-materials-video-game.html</a>
Post #6: I would fax a powerpoint or something describing the work you did. Maybe this is completely off base but my sister did it last year for similar projects and was admitted.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1438111-too-late-interview.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1438111-too-late-interview.html</a>
Post #9: My sister didn’t get an interview until early March and was admitted.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1443322-what-do-student-employees-undergraduate-offices-do.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1443322-what-do-student-employees-undergraduate-offices-do.html</a>
Post #4: Basic organization. My big sister spent a time working in MIT admissions and said although technically they aren’t supposed to look at the files they can, but after sorting through and seeing so many files it quickly loses its intrigue.</p>
<p>^ lolwut maybe somebody is overreacting</p>
<p>^^ Maybe, but having been around CC a while, any newbie poster who accumulates their first 15 posts in a half hour always raises a red flag.</p>
<p>Ahaha gibby you got me, I honestly haven’t been here in forever and couldn’t find my old login or what email I used so I was trying to get up to 15 to message someone by fluffing any thread I could. But I do have one lone sister who got into Harvard but went to MIT and everything I said was factual</p>