<p>Thanks for the messages from everyone. My daughter had contacted the admissions office before I posted my first query and they told her they would reconsider her admission, but she had to interview with several admissions officers. She went by herself to Cambridge and spent several hours making her case for admission. She returned home, satisfied she had made her case, but knowing it was a 50/50 change she would be readmitted. Luckily for her, it all worked out and she was allowed back in.</p>
<p>Why did she change her mind? She was initially put off by the current students she met at Harvard, who were either socially awkward or incredibly self-satisfied. And I think she saw that nothing is necessarily easy at Harvard–you have to work to get a good advisor or to comp for activities. She saw everything that is not great about Harvard and did not consider the benefits. When the dust settled, and she caught her breath (she was exhausted at the end of senior year), the benefits became much clearer to her. </p>
<p>I was glad she had to make her case to the admissions office because it helped her really figure out what she wanted. And she is thrilled to be joining the class of 2013.</p>