<p>Were you seriously a torch bearer for the Olympics? THAT IS SO LEGIT.</p>
<p>Got my likely letter today! IM ECSTATIC! 
I was likely to Wellesley’s Early Eval and deferred to Yale Early Action. I’m going to Harvard!!! This is unreal.</p>
<p>^ Congrats. Do you mind posting your stats? Include ethnicity please.</p>
<p>Congrats swim! Doesn’t it feel amazing! I hope to see you during visitas!</p>
<p>“No felix, interviewers ask where else they are applying. Likelies are also used for the same reason for athletes - Harvard does not want to loose athletes to other schools. Can you explain this too with made-up logic? (Rhetorical, no need to respond)”</p>
<p>Rhetorical - but going to answer anyway. My Harvard interviewer did not ask where else I was applying, nor did I offer to tell him my other choices. Yet I still received a likely. I agree with you in that Harvard offers likely letters to those it feels are top applicants because it wants “first dibs” on them. But I also believe that likely letters will be given regardless of what other schools Harvard thinks (or knows) you are applying to, as long as they really want you in their class. </p>
<p>@StanfordCS, you weren’t asking me, but, although I don’t feel like posting stats, I am not URM (nor an athlete).</p>
<p>Also, congrats swim! I hope to meet you all at visitas :)</p>
<p>^ I concur with what bks85 said above. For many interviews (including my Harvard interview) I was never asked what other schools I applied to. Assuming that if they did give out likelies in order to attract those who had applied to many schools, you would think that they would have to pay very close attention to what other schools Harvard applicants applied to. </p>
<p>There is no section in the application for listing what schools you applied to. And during interviews, this is not a required question that the interviewer must ask each Harvard applicant. Thus, likelies are not given out based on this criteria.</p>
<p>Homer, i’ve noticed u say a lot of wrong/non logical based things in this forum and other forums. Get it together.</p>
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<p>I cannot help but mention that most people who apply to Harvard would also apply to Yale, Princeton, etc. It’s almost a give-in.</p>
<p>Blackbanana, </p>
<p>I have only posted in this Harvard forum… I’m not responding to your ■■■■■ post (because it is that, a clear provocation) and I’m also wondering why someone would want to name themselves after a rotten banana.</p>
<p>bks, schools are more inclined to hand out likelies to students it fears they might loose. I’m sorry but with the level of animosity, I doubt whether your interviewer asked where else you applied. Only you know if you’re BSing, and that’s all that’s really important. Would you care to post stats, btw? Have you already posted them?</p>
<p>I second what Blackbanana said. Homer needs to be more thoughtful when writing posts.</p>
<p>Poly, I believe you should not feel the need to provoke Harvard applicants, considering you’re a supposed Harvard student. I vaguely remember your username elsewhere…</p>
<p>I also might add that all of my interviewers asked where I was going. I do not believe a word of how you (two people who said their interviewer never asked where else they were applying) were not asked where you’re applying; partly because you claim they are not required to ask. That is made-up information, because only alumni may view the interview form online. No more ■■■■■■■■ guys.</p>
<p>I was asked where I was applying during my interview for Harvard, but my interview was actually a week after I received my (non-athletic) likely letter.
So, while some interviewers may ask that, there’s not necessarily any correlation between likely letters and knowing what other schools an applicant is applying to.
On the other hand I’ve interviewed for schools that have not asked me what other schools I am applying to, and I’ve heard several Harvard applicants state that their interviewers never asked them which school they’ve applied to. </p>
<p>At any rate, Harvard is the number one ranked school in the nation. I’m sure they worry about yield as much as any other institution, but I don’t think that would be so paranoid as to feel the need to drill every applicant on which schools they have applied to and use this information in making their decision to send out likelies/acceptances/rejections/waitlists. Harvard knows how hard it is to turn down Harvard, and I don’t think they’re tossing and turning over yield at night. If it really played into decisions, they would make this a question on the supplement, especially since several applicants never get interviewed. </p>
<p>On a similar note, Rice DID include that question on its supplement, and that was a major factor in why I decided not to apply. (That, and the fact that Rice is in Texas… sorry Texans.)</p>
<p>homer314 - Please add me to your list of “■■■■■■”… “who said their interviewer never asked where else they were applying”. We never discussed it.</p>
<p>I might add that I received a likely letter, and was never asked what schools I applied to. In fact, none of the many interviewers I met with raised this question, and I believe it was rightly so, because I view it to be rather tactless.</p>
<p>Did you read my post?</p>
<p>“I do not believe a word of how you (two people who said their interviewer never asked where else they were applying) were not asked where you’re applying; partly because you claim they are not required to ask. That is made-up information, because only alumni may view the interview form online.”</p>
<p>Continue your negative posts actoss the board, Poly. I recall you hammering a guy with a 1800 just because he scored low, while everyone else in the thread was supporting him with long thoughtful posts. Jerk.</p>
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Blunt honesty is better than false hope.</p>
<p>I have not received a likely letter, but I had an interview last week and my interviewer did ask me what schools I applied to. Perhaps they might have a list of suggested questions, and it is up to the interviewers to decide whether or not they want to ask.</p>
<p>Also, does anybody know how the Harvard interview process works? Are the applicants interviewed chosen at random, like some other schools claim, or are they filtered from the entire pool of applicants? It would make me feel better if I were rejected to know I passed that first screening stage…if not I’ll go back to feeling depressed.</p>
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<p>No I don’t think so. The person was a forign speaker fluent in several other languages. Given 2/3s of the SAT is heavy English, it is understandable they would score lower in those sections. Polygot claimed that most forigns not fluent in English score above 2200, which although may seem tempting, is simply a jumping to conclusions figure that is just as likely not true at all. :rolleyes:</p>
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<p>It’s random and is no indication of your chances or strength as an applicant</p>