| Is anyone begining to feel manipulated by the way Harvard is managing this process? Some straightforward, specific communication would go a long way to relieving unnecessary stress - beginning with:
- disclosing how many are on the wait list with more specificity than "several hundred"
- how many decisions of the "over 200" to be admitted off the list have already been made
- how many of those accepted off the wait list have been informed that they have been admitted?
But to keep everyone at fever pitch, Harvard is dribbling out acceptances and information - they're determined to maintain that sense of exclusivity. It's offensive. Didn't Johns Hopkins (and maybe other schools) have an admissions officer who - gasp! - actually gave accurate information in his blog about about when decisions would be mailed out, etc. this year? Why can't Havard have the basic good manners to give enough accurate information so that over 70 kids/families on this forum who are smart/talented/hardworking/lucky enough to be on the waitlist don't waste an enormous amount of time and their considerable intellectual power chasing rumors, trying to piece together fragmentary information:144? 147? changes in the number of the facebook group? Small waitlist? Huge - 2-3000?
That's my rant - I'm hoping a good buddy will get of the waitlist and join me here next year, but the arrogance of Harvard is so obnoxious, maybe he's better off elsewhere. Honestly! |