I’m not sure when the deadline is,but the pre-orientation application opened yesterday. It had been delayed for a while.
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when did your child get off the waitlist last year? i’m just wondering when they do each wave
There is no real way to know of a wave now due to the political circumstances. If harvard pulls kids off the waitlist, so will most likely the other ivies.
However, if I had to guess, we’ll hear something before june 14
She received an offer on May 16, 2024. She was given one week to accept or decline. After that, I noticed two or maybe three rounds of offers being mentioned online.
FWIW, there were a total of 41 students admitted off the waitlist last year. My daughter was an unhooked RD applicant from a large public non-feeder high school from which no applicants had been admitted in the prior two years. She submitted both a LOCI and an additional teacher’s recommendation (her third) after she was waitlisted. She receives financial aid.
how did she determine if the 3rd LOR was worth submitting? how did she determine if it was different enough from the other two
anyone please respond to this asap but in common app, it only required 2 teacher LORs and it said a 3rd was optional so i put in 3. does this mean they received all 3 letters in RD as i submitted them? or if anything was listed as optional in commonapp, does harvard not take them? like for example, i also had my research mentor submit one under the “other recommender” category and that was optional too, but my harvard applicant checklist doesn’t reflect any of these optional ones. is there a way to confirm that these were ever submitted?
if you submitted, they received. The portal, as is the case for most colleges, isn’t updated with optional submissions
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okay thank you so much. i wasn’t sure whether to submit an additional rec or not since i already reached out to my interviewer and they said they would advocate personally for me to my AO so i decided to not submit another LOR since it may be a bit repetitive.
smart move
There is a high chance of movement next week and not tomorrow.
why? how did u know? 
Read the news.
Did you interviewer tell you that they will advocate for you?
Because generally the interviewer doesn’t have that much influence on the admission process. They just only submit a summary sheet after the interview.
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She determined the 3rd LOR was worth submitting as she was a prospective physics concentrator and it was written by her senior year AP Physics BC teacher.
In her high school, students are permitted to request two teacher recommendations, and those requests are due in January of their junior year. So, the recommendations on her file were from her junior year AP Calc BC and AP Lang teachers. While they were very strong, they were not “fresh” and they didn’t speak to her contribution in the classroom in her expected field of study.
She also asked her interviewer to advocate for her, which he did - we believe this helped considerably. He now is a mentor to her.
yeah bc we really connected during the interview so i reached out to him after bein waitlisted since he told me to keep him updated. he basically said he really did not expect that and that he believed i really deserved a spot so he talked to the regional AOs and my AO personally and made a case for me in person apparently. he did say it’s hard to tell what influence it can have if any, so don’t expect too much from just that. i also did submit a loci in april tho and one just recently after the end of senior year
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oh wow. my interviewer also did advocate for me but he said he’s not sure if he’ll have any effect. is there anything specific your child told him?
This is going off topic, but please feel free to send a DM.
i don’t really know how to send dms lol i’m new to this, would u be able to dm me first? sorry about that lol
I sent you a DM.