<p>seriously, I feel like they should at least have requirements for applying, like min GPA, level of god-like status, number of children saved in life, etc. At least in that case the applicant pool wouldn’t be so enormous.</p>
<p>Dear XXXX,</p>
<p>I am delighted to inform you that the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid has voted to admit you as a transfer student beginning in the Fall Term, 2011. Please accept my personal congratulations for your outstanding achievements.</p>
<p>This year nearly fifteen hundred students applied for the twelve places available for transfer students. With many more talented and highly qualified candidates than it has room to admit, the Admissions Committee takes great care to choose individuals who present extraordinary academic, extra-curricular, and personal strengths. The Committee is convinced that with your outstanding qualities of mind and character you will make meaningful contributions in college and to society.</p>
<p>I haven’t received anything :S What was the timestamp of the e-mail?</p>
<p>@trans2011 You must have god-like… everything! Congratz</p>
<p>LOL @readyforsummer</p>
<p>So SOOO true!! Haha if only</p>
<p>Trans2011! Congrats!!</p>
<p>Rejected. And the weather is lovely outside!</p>
<p>I got my email @ 5:09 pm</p>
<p>Rejected but i am not even ****ed seriously 12 out over 1500
are they serious?
So that means less than 1 person out of a 100 applications was accepted
smh
its just too funny</p>
<p>Yeah, great day for my university’s email to go down. And I thought I’d be better off using the university’s email instead of gmail. The cryfest is momentarily delayed.</p>
<p>trans2011: CONGRATSSSS!!! mind posting your stats?</p>
<p>I was rejected too. I just woke up from a nice 2 hour nap to a rejection. =/ Oh well…and I had compelling reasons to attend to ='[</p>
<p>"I am writing to inform you that the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid has not yet made a final decision on your application for a place at Harvard College as a transfer student. However, because of your achievements and promise, the Committee has voted to place your name on a waiting list of students for whom we hope places may become available later.</p>
<p>Among the nearly fifteen hundred applicants for the twelve places available for transfer were more candidates of unusual ability and promise than we were able to admit. The Committee has selected a number of students from that strong group to comprise a waiting list. The list is not ranked. If spaces become available, the Committee will reconsider all candidates who have elected to remain on the waiting list.</p>
<p>We realize that you must make plans at another college while you await our final decision. Please be assured that all colleges understand your situation and that we will proceed as quickly as possible to reach a decision. Normally, most waiting list decisions are made by July."</p>
<p>@OutHere-Congrats on your waitlisting! It’s an honor! Do you mind posting up your stats as well?</p>
<p>Current School: New York University
Current Year: Sophomore
Decision: Waitlisted
College GPA: 3.978
SAT: 2310 (CR: 800, M: 720, W: 790)
APs: 14 AP Exams (twelve 5s, two 4s)
High School GPA: 94.3
High School Rank: 56/578
Demographics: White Male</p>
<p>College Extracurriculars: Policy Debate Team (President), Teach debate and public speaking skills in a major NYC prison, Roosevelt Institute, College Democrats</p>
<p>Work Experience: Coach top-5 high school debate team, Founded (and am vice-president of) a nonprofit organization that provides free debate education to students at economically struggling schools, lecture at multiple summer debate institutes, summer internship at congressman’s office, summer internship at marketing agency</p>
<p>High School Extracurriculars: Debate Team (Captain), Literary Magazine, Mu Alpha Theta Math Honors Society, National Honor Society</p>
<p>College Awards: Dean’s List, University Leadership Honors Course, Degree of Distinction - National Forensic League (Coach), Merit Scholarship</p>
<p>High School Awards: National Council of Teachers of English Achievement Award in Writing, National Merit Finalist, Degree of Outstanding Distinction - National Forensic League (Competitor), AP Scholar with Distinction</p>
<p>Recommendations: One is amazing—the best possible recommendation I could have wished for, and the other is very good.</p>
<p>Essays: My essays for why I want to transfer are excellent. My personal essays are less superb— I’m not very good at writing really personal papers. They’re not bad… they’re just not amazing.</p>
<p>Other: Received interview.</p>
<p>Wow very impressive. I hope you have better luck with the other colleges you applied to! I’m sure the outcome would have been different if you applied (I’m not sure if you did) as a freshman. I wish you the best of luck man</p>
<p>Thanks! I didn’t apply as a freshman. I only applied to two ivies Brown and Columbia, and was rejected from both. I think my high school GPA was too low.</p>
<p>I also applied to Yale and Swarthmore… Yale comes out next week, and Swarthmore on June 1. The anticipation is making me crazy!</p>
<p>I will say, the waitlist result is probably the best outcome in terms of studying for finals right now… I have no excuse for apathy or depression. Just an incentive to work my ass off.</p>
<p>Rejected… MY FRIEND A 20 YEAR OLD CEO OF A 6 MILL DOLLAR COMPANY WAS ALSO REJECTED… wooowwww…those 12 kids must have been nuts haha</p>
<p>@trans2011: congrats!! mind posting ur stats here, like what OutHere did? ;)</p>
<p>I didn’t get an email… What is this…</p>
<p>Not only was I rejected, but my rejection email was different from those posted. It says:
"Dear XXXX,
We at Harvard University cannot quite understand why you bothered to waste your time and ours by even submitting an application. Are you some kind of moron? No, seriously, are you capable of tying shoes? How do you manage to put one foot in front of the other and transport yourself from one destination to another each day?? Rarely do we receive such a gem as your application; and by ‘gem’ I mean, complete piece of trash, yet so ironically entertaining that we all laughed for hours upon hours. Unfortunately, this endless ensuing of laughter put us significantly behind in evaluating other transfer applications, so we were forced to ‘eenie-meenie-miny-mo’ the applications of several of your peers, and project the unlucky ‘mo’s’ towards the paper shredder; however, not before providing these students with your personal email and phone number, so that they may personally contact you and give you the intense berating you clearly deserve. How dare you destroy the Ivy League dreams of strangers?? It’s shocking. </p>
<p>Unbelievable, Harvard. Unbelievable.</p>