Rejected at Harvard, Prospects for Re-applying EA/Transfer?

<p>“without knowing the specific reasons that person might have for wanting to attend that college.”</p>

<p>Yes, I’ve known a few people with truly justifiable reasons to keep striving for Harvard over any of its peers: an overpowering interest in certain fields of pure math, or Francophone (as opposed to French) literature; a burning ambition to be a budget travel writer or write for the Simpsons/David Letterman or run a homeless shelter; a few other paths. People in that group talk about their interest left, right, and center. Their obsession is with their ambition, not with Harvard per se. An OP who doesn’t specify any reason for continuing to focus on Harvard despite admittance to “several Ivies” doesn’t sound like part of that category.</p>

<p>I’m the biggest Harvard fan you’ll ever meet, and I knew that no school fit me quite as perfectly, but I was joyfully preparing to go to Penn before Harvard said yes that final time. Harvard’s advantages over Penn were icing, not the cake. That’s true for most of us.</p>