<p>@sd6: when did you submit your applications, just wondering?</p>
<p>is harvard first come first serve?
like, does applying early give an advantage?</p>
<p>Applying early helps them make sure they have all your stuff in on time, and I think the earlier you apply, the better the chance you will get an interview. Beyond that, it doesn’t affect your chances</p>
<p>I submitted my common app on December 1st, and I got contacted for an interview on December 9th. It was FAST. I’m terrified too!! Unlike the Duke interview, this one sounds intense. Oh dear…</p>
<p>The vast majority of people that live in or near Metropolitan areas get interviews irregardless of when you submitted your app. One interview tip: RELAX! Nerves will not help you in any way.</p>
<p>I’m too scared to submit my Harvard app until I hear back from Yale SCEA on Wednesday. =/</p>
<p>My son had his interview today. Lasted over an hour and seemed more intense than many others. She asked him to bring a list of his activities and awards. She asked about his scores, which no other interviewer so far did, and even asked him to email her his SATII results as he didn’t remember them at the interview, as well as a link to a review of his EC. He thought it went well but not great. Well, for better or worse i dont believe these interviews count for much…</p>
<p>I had my interview almost a month ago…For anyone who hasn’t had theirs yet, I would say that it’s not as intimidating as on would expect. The lady who interviewed me scared me at first, but in the end, everyone who goes/went to Harvard is/was human…(: They do ask for scores ad everything, though, which is strange.</p>
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Sent the Common App and Supplement on 11/28 (Common App is listed as being downloaded by Harvard on 11/29). Got contacted for an interview on 11/30 (amazingly fast notification now that I look back on it). Had interview on 12/11. Submitted Payment and SAT/ACT scores on 12/12.</p>
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<p>I was going to wait until after Yale SCEA notification on December 15 to apply to Harvard (I don’t know why, because I would probably apply to Harvard regardless of my Yale decision), but Harvard makes it a point to “strongly recommend” having your application in by 12/1.</p>
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<p>I would have to agree with you. Admittedly, I’ve only had one other interview (Yale SCEA), but this one was quite a bit more intense, not that there’s anything wrong with that. I was also surprised when I was asked for a full rundown of my SAT/ACT/SATII/AP scores and when I took them.</p>
<p>I just joined all this today after submitting my application to Harvard. I’m hoping to get an interview sometime soon - but I’m assuming that things will slow down during the Christmas season, so I’ll probably end up getting interviewed mid-January. It’s been my dream to go to Harvard since I was little !</p>
<p>O, and one more thing. My brother went too. First generation. Great essays</p>
<p>Also, Harvard accepts around 2K people, not 1K.</p>
<p>ed, they accept a lot less so they can boost their yield by accepting wait listed students who almost all come… xrcalico, being black doesn’t excuse me from anything. it dramatically helps my chances, especially when all other black students in my school got into columbia, penn, etc w worse grades and sat scores. 4 kids with B+ averages got into princeton from my school. Furthermore, billionaire connectoin was close, helping my brother as well as meeting with me and giving advice. </p>
<p>All i’m saying is that at a time when black admits sat scores average a 680-720 at top ivies(ive done my research, i’m in college now), a student with higher sat scores, great ap’s, a fraternal legacy, and great recs would have a good chance. especially when considering a billionaire who has donated millions and millions of dollars who was best friends with the former harvard president, the chances would increase dramatically. and i was being modest. just saying, don’t get your hopes up. Also, i had meetings set up by my rents with head of admissions in my state, who later told my parent that i was a very nice intelligent well spoken young man. godspeed my friends</p>
<p>also, my high schoolhas around a 50 percent admit rate for students into ivy’s stanford and mit, ends up being around 100-150 kids then who attend those schoools. Average grade in my school is a B.</p>
<p>I’m getting a little curious as to how far along the adcoms are in terms of reading apps. I know they began at the start of this month…</p>
<p>Just had my interview today. It lasted 2 hours. The day of the interview, he e-mailed me a newspaper book review to analyze. That was kind of a shocker, but I actually really enjoyed the interview. He was a really interesting guy and we actually took some time to talk about other outstanding schools, if I don’t get into Harvard. I hope I do! But then again, the admit chance is so low, you never know.</p>
<p>For anyone who wants to know, I was contacted around 7-9 days after I submitted my common app, not the supplement yet. Also, mine was held at a nice restaurant, so business casual really paid off =D</p>
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<p>Understand that single-digit admissions rates are a promotional fabrication fed to the largely gullible public who largely do not understand the rate’s true significance. In deriving its figure from admissions to the class of 2014, Harvard was completely disregarding admittances from the wait-list and students annually situated upon its “Z-list”* in order to gleefully announce the unprecedented sub-7% acceptance rate. Uniting U.S. residents with international students in the same calculation, (internationals, based on reasonable estimations, are admitted at a four-times-lower rate) slenderizes the figure a bit, in addition.</p>
<p>The statistical reality is that a preponderance have practically zero chance of admittance (and that holds true at Harvard’s peer institutions, as well), despite attestations that a sizable majority of the pool is “qualified” to handle the academic demands. In fact, the “85% are qualified” response politely evades answering the inquiry that attracts far more wonderment and relevance – how many are actually viable contenders. Asking how many are appropriately credentialed in order to make reasonable inferences about their ability to manage the workload and how many are realistic candidates for admission are not the same question and entail completely disparate answers. That the standard applicant stands “a 6.9% chance” is misleading because it’s largely an extraneous factoid about the aggregated applicant pool in conjunction with convenience of excluding the aforementioned students from the tally. The acceptance rate is more genuinely 20%-25% if one were to aggregate those who do have a chance while the rest are merely purchasing a bogus ticket to the Harvard lottery. Admissions competition is not genuinely among ~31,000 (the total applicant pool) or the 26,000 or so that that Harvard claims are qualified. It’s more realistically limited to roughly 10,000 remotely feasible contestants. You will occasionally hear older members of the CC community assert that MIT unintentionally verified this reality about ten admissions cycles back when they arranged its pool in order of outcome of the Academic Index calculation, and the bottom half produced no admittances save for particular candidates with special consideration. Many of the most selective institutions validate this actuality in a more evasive and nebulous manner when they contend that they could admit a second or perhaps a third qualified class (but certainly not a fourth or fifth). </p>
<p>The relationship between SAT scores and admissions also serves as an efficient proxy for modeling and inferring the same conclusions. The effects of this can also be observed in the book [url=<a href=“The Early Admissions Game - Christopher. Avery, Andrew. Fairbanks, Richard J. Zeckhauser - Google Books”>The Early Admissions Game - Christopher. Avery, Andrew. Fairbanks, Richard J. Zeckhauser - Google Books]The</a> Early Admissions Game<a href=“page%20153,%20Figure%205.13b”>/url</a>, which charts Harvard acceptance rates during the 1999-2000 admissions cycle by SAT breakdown . To summarize:</p>
<p>400-1400 – 2% regular / 6% early
1410-1450 – 8% regular / 21% early
1460-1500 – 7% regular / 22% early
1510-1550 – 12% regular / 55% early
1560-1600 – 33% regular / 57% early</p>
<p>In other words, those from priority categories are admitted from the lowest distinction; no visible sensitivity is applied to the SAT in the “mid-range” categories, with exponentially heightened admissions probability as scores approach higher levels. The page 153 figure essentially denotes a different graphical interpretation of the charts assembled in the Revealed Preference Rankings study and in Espenshade’s earlier publishings. Namely, it determines the same meaningful relationship and matches the identical fundamental conclusions of multiple sources. The acceptance percentages will necessarily be lower eleven years later (for the 2010-11 admissions cycle) by virtue of having more applications contend for a similar number of spots. But the reduction will be roughly proportional to the above percentages presuming that admissions policies have not substantially altered since then.</p>
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<p>I’m curious, fledgling, but have you been contacted for an interview yet?</p>