<p>@jgraider (several posts up) - Nope, I still got all my financial stuff to do, and I have to finish an Emory supplement, wrap up a couple other things, and do about six or seven interviews. Then I’m done. :D</p>
<p>@referee I highly, highly doubt that everyone’s been notified already. They said April 1 (or March 30 or something like that), and that’s always when they notify the masses.</p>
<p>They haven’t even completely finished processing applications, I can 100% guarantee that not everyone’s been notified already. In fact, I can guarantee that virtually no one’s been notified already. You would have to be an incredibly strong applicant for Harvard to contact you about an acceptance this early.</p>
<p>^I agree. You would have to be the “perfect” applicant, with stellar stats and international awards. You’d have to be a mini Einstein. Even then you might not get admissions this early. It’s only January, folks!</p>
<p>Yeah, I’d be surprised to even hear that Harvard has begun looking at apps, or at least thoroughly enough to know if they want somebody. You’re friend is either the perfect applicant, or they are lying, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Not trying to attack what you or she says, I’m just saying.</p>
<p>Do not trust everything you hear or read. There are people out there who like messing with people’s minds and with the appropriate state of insecurity (paranoia?) that floats from now until April 1, any rumor will be seized upon. </p>
<p>Harvard offers likely letters to two groups of folks–recruited athletes and some international applicants who (such as in the UK) have already heard from their local universities and have to make decisions before April 1st. If Harvard is very interested, they will get a likely letter so as to give them security when they turn down, say, Oxford. But that is it. </p>
<p>So take a deep breath–don’t over think stuff and get yourself all wound up with these sorts of rumors. After all, Harvard can pick and choose. Why in January would they violate their policies when in all likelihood they will get whom they want after the RD are released? Right? Again, other than these very special circumstances (and unless you are going to row for Harry Parker or go to Cambridge–they do not apply to you) Harvard does not tip its hand.</p>
<p>oh right! harvard did do away with ea. someone slap me, i shouldnt have applied, haha.</p>
<p>all in all, to my knowledge (and it seems everyone else) harvard does not send acceptances until march 30/ april 1. the few exceptions would be to EXCEPTIONAL students. i vaguely know a guy who got in last year (this guy apparently CARRIED the US team at IOI) and he didnt get his acceptance letter till normal time. be pretty hard to beat that.</p>
<p>I was going to send in my transcript this week because my school didn’t have it available until now, but the snow has ruined that for me. Will it be too late if I mail it next week? I think I’ll have to fax my transcript from junior year for now.</p>
<p>Inherency, there’s a good chance your friend is telling the truth.</p>
<p>I got a call from a Harvard admissions officer yesterday in the morning. She told me that the committee had just reviewed my application and voted to send me a “likely letter.” She followed up with an e-mail, too. This is part of what it said: “First of all, you will be receiving what we call a Likely Letter either late this week or early next week. The content of the letter will explain that as an Admissions Committee, we voted today to send you this letter because we are quite certain that we will admit you officially at the end of March, when we send all of our letters of admission (our policies prohibit us from sending official letters until then). In other words, unless your academic (or disciplinary) record changes significantly, you should expect to receive that letter of admission! (In other words, youre in! J)”</p>
<p>I did submit my application as soon as I could after December 1st (that’s when they started reviewing apps). While I am not being recruited for a sport, I am being evaluated as an international student (not that it should matter…need blind admissions, right?). I go to a highly competitive public Math and Science school in Los Angeles. If I were to be ranked, you’d need to borrow all of your friends’ fingers to count. I don’t know how, I don’t know why. My head feels light, my body is numb, and it’s too hard to type right now. But just know this: I am no Einstein, like RainbowSprinkles said. You guys should all look forward to big opportunities. Give the committees time.</p>
<p>^What? That’s amazing! Congrats to you 
Why do you think you received a phone call like that? Is there anything that you think made you stand out?</p>
<p>@RainbowSprinkles</p>
<p>Thanks!
I know. It feels unreal because academically I am NOT at the top of the class.</p>
<p>If there were one thing that I think made the case for me, it’s this link I’m posting. I don’t know if they saw this little project of mine, but I did include the link in my application. I dunno how much crap I’m gonna catch for the content here on CC, but hey, I’m proud of my work and I have no shame.</p>
<p>wix.com/rima044/usr</p>
<p>oh i was just editing it right now too so thats why some things are off</p>
<p>You created the website? That’s so impressive. This is probably why they’re going to send you a likely letter (:</p>
<p>again, thanks. i guess this letter im getting really does lend credence to the claim that admissions reviews are holistic</p>
<p>did you apply to harvard as well? good luck with your other decisions though</p>
<p>Yes, I did (RD). I’m not expecting much, being an international with no hook and all. It <em>is</em> Harvard (:</p>
<p>ah ok
where from?</p>
<p>you should have the same chances as a domestic student…at least they say so on their website…but…we all know they have quotas >_></p>
<p>be optimistic! where else did you apply?</p>
<p>Canada.
Yes, we all know it’s harder for internationals to get in ): it’s too bad
I also applied to Brown, Cornell, and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>well good luck for those decisions. who knows? you might get a likely letter from them. </p>
<p>Well it’s late for both of us. I’m turning in RS. </p>
<p>ttyl :)</p>
<p>There’s no advantage or disadvantage to being an international at Harvard. All applicants are treated equally, and when they say they don’t have any form of quotas, they mean it.</p>
<p>Well it is true that at every single top school the difference in acceptance rate between domestic and international applicants are quite significant. </p>
<p>(like MIT’s 3% and 11% last year)</p>