<p>My daughter heard a rumor on nearly her very last day at Harvard, just before graduation, that if you are accepted and enroll, that you can by special request be allowed access to your admissions file. You can read the adcoms’ evaluation of you and find out why you were accepted. Rejected students or accepted students who did not enroll cannot get access. You have to be a Harvard student.</p>
<p>I told her by all means do it. Let’s get a look at the file. But it never happened. It was too late; the office wasn’t taking those requests at that time, etc. And she graduated and left a day or two later. But I still would have loved to have seen it, to know what about her app and her qualifications they liked and didn’t like. </p>
<p>Maybe someone with kids still at Harvard can find out if it really is posslble to read your Admissions file.</p>