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dennypenny
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 23:26:19 +0000

@lizjohnson254 Congrats on the waitlist! I know quite a few friends who were waitlisted and got off, many were notified over the summer, some got off the waitlist weeks or days before the start of school – it’s more common than I maybe thought and certainly possible. I’d recommend having some actionable updates for the final bit of senior year and plans for the summer. Any new awards won? Any exciting hobbies during corona quarantine? Anything that demonstrates to your regional admissions officer that they’re really missing out not taking you, or anything that would show that you are constantly learning, striving and bettering yourself. Update your admissions officer and remind them again of your interest in Harvard, how it’s your first choice, how you see yourself fitting in on campus, etc. I think beyond that, there’s not much else that one can do, so stay proactive. They don’t rank in order to keep these updates into consideration, so if you won a national award next month for example, it would still “count”. I don’t think there’s necessarily a number on it – they have a somewhat fixed number of beds in Harvard Yard for the incoming class, so it’s just a function of how many students decide Stanford or Yale over Harvard, and that’s usually a similar % year over year.