Congrats on 100 pages everyone I’m proud of us
Yay!! Page 100 =D>
@bruhinterviewme I am surprised about #29, but it seems that they were an international applicant which probably made the process more stressful for them. Obviously, applying to these schools is a risk, and there might just be a confounding variable that we don’t know about that might have affected it. This is stressful!!
Stanford is known to deliver surprises. I have seen unhooked Asian males with ACT 33, SAT 1400 getting in REA at Stanford; its unthinkable it would happen at Harvard.
^Actually my S’s best friend who was an unhooked white applicant with low-mid 1400 SAT’s got in REA to Harvard.
And #18 was just not working hard enough, even though she’s a URM.
Harvard’s process seems to involve at least two readers, and in the case of admitted applicants a 40 person committee. I don’t know about Stanford, but the past results seem to indicate there was narrower spectrum of Harvard’s unhooked admits. I imagine it may have to do with the nature of getting majority votes among 40 people.
Finally made an account haha. Good luck to everyone!! Thursday is really getting close.
Also anyone else from NC??
Do people think the students on this forum show a stronger, weaker, or relatively average sampling of the students who applied to Harvard SCEA
@skirugby That’s a good question but there might not be an answer. There are maybe 50 people here actively talking? Even more just reading. The page reads was over 200K. If an average person read all 100 pages once, that’s still 2000 people out there. And most of them are quiet. @skieurope might give us some concrete statistics as he’s the owner of the forum. I doubt all of the readers are applicants though.
I think they are just chattier. But come on Thurs ff every applicant here posts result then we will know for sure.
I’ve never analyzed the data as the sample size is too small to be statistically significant, but I have always felts that the users on this site are not a representative subset of college bound students, and my opinion extends to the subforums for highly selective colleges.
Based on history: (A) they won’t all post results and (B) as said above, the sample size is too small to be meaningful.
How important do you guys think the department that you applied to matters? What if you applied to a very un-competitive department of Harvard…do you have a better chance?
Which departments at Harvard are considered “noncompetitive?”
If 6 or 7 chattier ones make to Harvard, then they are stronger as a whole since most of them are unhooked and face a much smaller chance than the 14% early admit rate. As a reader of this forum and related ones, he or she can definitely become a strong candidate if done so a few years before college application.
@shehar17 Anthropology, maybe? 
'I think the more competitive the department, the more you have to have ECs to back you up. You shouldn’t apply as a bioengineering concentration when all your extracurriculars were, for example, writing related. Harvard also tries to make a well rounded class, so they know that you can easily switch concentrations later but will have approximate quotas for the different concentrations. So essentially, pick a concentration you like and that your ECs support and just make bomb essays @h2a216
Has anyone gotten decisions? My mom’s friend (guidance counselor) told my mom that she was upset with who got in this year (not important). But does that mean the decisions are out for some people? Or maybe just a special guidance counselor thing.
@bruhinterviewme your guidance counselor was upset with who got into Harvard through early app this year??