Why you shouldn't mess with Harvard.

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<p>This is perhaps the funniest admissions story I've heard so far:</p>

<p>Someone I know got into Yale EA, but applied to Harvard RD "just so he could turn them down." His mother was talking to another parent a few weeks ago and told her about the joke ("Yes, well, he's going to Yale--got in Early--but he applied to Harvard so that he could turn them down! Wouldn't it be hilarious?").</p>

<p>Unfortunately for her, the fellow parent happened to be the wife of the local Harvard ASC chairman. I somehow doubt he'll be admitted.</p>

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<p>ouch lol...</p>

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<p>I want to backhand that person and his parent right now - want a bunch of arrogant *******s. I hate people like that with a passion.</p>

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<p>yea i hate those people</p>

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<p>I think they received their "backhand" already, lol. How mortifying that must have been...of all the people to tell, it happened to be the Harvard rep's wife....</p>

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<p>that actually isn't so bad...might open up a space for a deferred kiddie like me :)</p>

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<p>wow that kid needs to be beaten with a stick...stupid show-off</p>

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<p>I would feel terribly stupid if this had happened to me. See, that's what happens when one is too prentitous.</p>

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<p>to even assume that he'd be admitted is really pompous in my books</p>

<p>Sure he got into Yale, but with the 5% or whatever it is acceptance rate for the RD round, you gotta have a pretty big ego to assume you're going to get into harvard regardless of your stats and ecs</p>

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<p>must of been some ignorant kid or parent or something b/c to assume that you would get into hvd just because u get into yale is pretty out there</p>

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<p>Kebree---who told you the story?</p>

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<p>The story was told on the Parents Forum of this CC site.</p>

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<p>oh. Thanks</p>

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<p>What a great idea. I guess to that family throwing $60 the drain is no big deal.</p>

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<p>"Why you shouldn't mess with Harvard."*</p>

<ul>
<li>Unless you're an MIT student.... :)</li>
</ul>

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<p>all I can say is: good</p>

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<p>Just a follow-up to what I said earlier about MIT students... That's one of the things I love about Harvard, how it has good-natured rivalries with it's peer institutions. When I was at the H-Y football game (football recruit at the time) I almost died laughing at some of the stuff that was going on between the schools...</p>

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<p>Serves him right. Besides, Harvard admissions are so rigorous that I don't think anyone has a guaranteed shot.</p>

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<p>unless of course you are Fitzsimmons Jr.</p>