Thanks for the response. Could you send the link to the article, and do you think that there will be a wave tomorrow/Friday?
Can’t find the exact article. I do have a NYtimes one saved that mentions it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/harvard-international-students-lawsuit-injunction.html
Bad news if freshmen are in that dorm. But if that’s the case, it means Harvard knew about the over enrollment long ago. Why did they keep taking people off the WL in the past months and why they didn’t officially close the list? I’m baffled.
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Over-enrollment isn’t unprecedented—Harvard’s Class of 2021 DeWolfe to House 28 Freshmen | News | The Harvard Crimson
They should have just closed the list the day after the deferral deadline.
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I sent in two application updates (awards/research) last and this month by directly emailing an AO. Both times they responded quickly, said thanks for the update, and mentioned something about letting everyone else in the office know/adding to my file.
From what I can tell the AOs still care somewhat and are pretty responsive with waitlistees.
I dont know if this info helps or not but I am definetly still holding on hope for a Thur/Fri or next week wave.
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Not next week, this week. If it’s next week, it’s gonna be impossible for some people to move in on time.
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If it’s already over enrolled, why would there be more people coming in?
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I’m a waitlisted transfer–do you mean that they waitlisted most transfer applicants, or that they waitlisted the small group they would’ve off-the-bat accepted?
No, because the admissions team is distinct from the student affairs team. Under different deans. I bet they still don’t have a good sense of how many internationals can come here into the US so no harm to them in keeping the waitlist open.
Personally, I don’t think that they’re overenrolled—based on the information (Harvard extending the waitlist, International Student deferrals, etc.) I thought you brought up a particularly good point: if everyone was going to be rejected from the waitlist, why wouldn’t it have simply closed on Monday (as it did during the Class of 2024)? Also, if the university was already overenrolled, there would be no reason for the few “one-offs” that we saw in July.
I believe that there will be a wave tomorrow or Friday.
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I think so too. And to the person who was asking about me, please don’t make assumptions about where people are from based solely on their name. For privacy reasons, I won’t be disclosing that information. All I can say is that I am not from Asia or Africa.
I doubt that the Class of 2029 is truly overenrolled following the July 1st email from the Admissions Office extending the waitlist. If overenrollment had already been confirmed, we likely would’ve received a mass status update by NOW.
And if the DeWolfe “overflow” story really signaled overenrollment, I’d bet The Harvard Crimson would have reported on such an undesirable situation - just as they did on August 3, 2017, when the Class of 2021 faced a housing overflow.
Haha just for the sake of having fun, I have a theory supporting all we have seen so far if the Dewolfe overflow story is true. As I mentioned before, it could actually be in Harvard’s interest to over-enroll as a way to hedge against visa revocations for international students. If that’s the case, it seems Harvard may have leaned into this strategy and decided to take most people off the waitlist. They might’ve already begun redistributing the overflow between the regular and wl admits.Again, don’t take it seriously. It’s a joke.
I’m not entirely sure. This is information I am relaying that was provided by a couple of students matriculating this academic year.
Also, as @Mehdi29 claimed, I can confirm of one person (domestic) who was initially rejected, then put on the waitlist only to be accepted later. I’m really confused as to how this had happened. Perhaps it was a mistake that was swiftly corrected? I feel like JackDavis might need to confirm of such an event being possible because there lies a huge chance that I’m just being tr0113d.
I also noticed that there are a lot of domestic students (such as myself) that are on the waitlist…still waiting. So I’d have to agee with what you said.
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This is so delusional JLunar.. but it’s definetly something I would also think of lol. We really really just need to distract ourselves with other things and move on with life as best we can. If Harvard comes calling, great! Anyways, at this point we need to stop pining.
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It could happen, but it is very very unlikely. When you are rejected it is set in stone unless something major happens to which they need more people to admit.
To go from Rejected to Waitlist to Accepted makes no sense to me. You’d just go straight from Rejected to Accepted if there is a mistake.
To be rejected means both of your initial application reviewers thought you did not meet the requirements. Or you were rejected in committee later down the line if you got past the initial screening.
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Hopefully, we will see soon whether this is true or not. Has anyone been able to ask the Admissions Office about when a wave could be expected? Going past this week without providing some decisions seems untenable.
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