| I've heard somewhere that although writing a letter can help, a school like Harvard really doesn't need students to show them "interest," as they know that an overwhelming majority of the students staying on the waitlist are more than interested in attending harvard. I think that the way they fill the waitlist is by selecting students who will make their numbers look a little more like the way they want them to look. For example, if they're severely lacking in African- American enrollment, they may target AA students in order to have a more diverse class. Same applies to gender, geographic location, and even extracurriculars.
Then again, i don't work in the admissions office, so this is all what I've heard.
BTW- we don't even know if anyone's getting taken off the WL this year. Harvard is, well... Harvard. |