Who’s anticipating rejection/deferral? 
What’s the percentage of deferred applicants who are accepted regular decision?
Is there anyone who didn’t receive an interview?
Is everyone here a National Merit Semifinalist?
No lolololol @YungApplicant
@YungApplicant no but I do have Hispanic national merit!
@YungApplicant I am!
Psat barely matters
As am I. But @expertiger is quite right.
@EarlyAction2020 assuming deferred applicants are treated the same way as normal regular decision applicants, the RD-only acceptance rate was 2.8% for the class of 2019
@expertiger why is that?
This thread is dead today
@tuty143 agreed.
@schroscat we have filled out like a page at most lol
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2395749
Prepping for deferral lol
Looks like this thread needs a second revival.
Well, what do you guys consider your hooks? I don’t mean your socioeconomic status or your race in the traditional sense of what a “hook” is. I mean, if there’s one thing that the reader can remember about you ten minutes after she’s put down your application, what do you think it would be?
I am an international student living in a country that is listed as the country with limited interview opportunities, and I just received an email from an Harvard alumni for an interview this weekend. Haven’t the decisions already been made? I’m not so sure if the interview will make a difference towards the decision that Harvard makes. (I’m assuming they already made their final decisions, as it is only six days before decisions come out) What do you think?
I hope that admissions can see my passion for medicine; my being oozes science and if there’s one thing that I’d want them to know, it would be that I hope to one day change the face of medicine. I don’t want to just be another surgeon, I want to be life-changing–in the sense that I don’t just want to save lives as the bare necessity–but rather, I want to impact lives. I want to teach the world the wonders of medicine, the wonders of the human body, and the wonders of humanity. As a physician, I want to be passionate about my work; I will be that one person at 4:37 in the morning singing and creating an environment of enthusiasm for my peers.
I dunno, I just think my passion to impact something so incredibly important to me is evident throughout my application.
@orionsagittarius I’d say one of my hooks is my passion for music and how I’ve used it for service. I know a lot of applicants are musically talented, but I have used my love for music to start a program called Arts in Medicine which uses the arts as therapy. I mostly had it focused on a local nursing home and centers for Alzheimer’s patients but I also used the club to go on a medical mission trip to Ecuador for a week (got to watch a bunch of cool surgeries, translate, and do art therapy!). I focused on that trip specifically a lot in my supplemental essay and j wrote my personal essay about how my bicultural upbringing has provided me a unique outlook on life. Those are essentially the two elements of my personality I hope they get out of my application!
@NParker I think you should schedule the interview and it seems like it’s a sign you’ve made it to committee! They could want an interview to add more to your application (or it could just be that they’re following through on their promise to try to get interviews for everyone even up to the day decisions are released)