<p>I know they say the application process is need-blind, but is there any advantage to answering either “Yes” or “No” to the financial aid question… or am I overthinking this?</p>
<p>Woo, Harvard interview this Tuesday. So excited. Any tips from someone who has had a college interview before?</p>
<p>Question: is the 150 word limit for the EC supplement a hard limit? I’m having a difficult time condensing my essay, which I guess is the point haha.</p>
<p>Since it said “about” I assumed it was a soft limit, but CommonApp cuts you off. You’ll have to get it down to 150, as painful as it may be.</p>
<p>@neutrality, i had my interview this morning! very easy going, just talked about my academics/activities for a little, what i want to do in college, and about harvard and boston life. it just become more of a friendly coversation! don’t stress at all, i didn’t have any curveball questions. just prepare on the typical questions (why harvard) before you go.</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>Lol I’m liking my supplemental essay so much I might just do the extra one because there’s no way I’m getting this down to 150 words.</p>
<p>Anybody know the current status of Slideroom?
I submitted my CA yesterday, and didn’t see any question about supplemental on there…</p>
<p>jk, I see it’s up.</p>
<p>AHHH I’m starting to get super anxious about this entire process dangggg. I have my common app essay/required EC essay done (although I’m trying to find people to read it so I can see if I need to make slight adjustments), but I’m so lost as to whether I should attempt writing an extra essay or not. It’s a pity Harvard hasn’t extended their EA deadline. D:</p>
<p>OK, so I submitted my common app on 10/8 and even though my recs were downloaded on 10/13, they still are showing as not received in my portal. Anyone else have the same thing going on?</p>
<p>So I just a call about my interview…My interviewer’s son goes to a rival high school in my town and is also applying to Harvard this year. Isn’t this a conflict of interest? Harvard likes to achieve geographical diversity so do you think it’s advantageous for my interviewer to give me a bad report?</p>
<p>Yes it is a conflict of interest. If the guy has a kid applying this year, he needs to ABSOLUTELY recuse himself. You should email Harvard admissions.</p>
<p>I just wanted to wish everyone on this thread good luck. I know how stressful and mind-numbingly terrifying this entire process has been and I can only imagine what some of the people on here have put themselves through. Take solace in the fact we’ll all end up where we’re supposed to be - whether or not that’s in Cambridge a year from now (and we can only hope!), we’ll all attend great schools and do great things. So, now that most of us have gotten our applications in, let’s take a deep breath for the first time in what seems like three nonstop years of academic and extracurricular rigor and enjoy ourselves. I know I’m going to! </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone, I’ll be praying for/thinking of you all over the next month and a half as we await our fate! Take a weekend off, see your friends, go to a party, do anything but worry/stress over college applications. It’s out of our hands now!</p>
<p>Yes efeens44! Good luck to everyone! We’ve all worked hard to get where we’re at, and now that we’ve applied all we can do is wait until the decision. Even if we don’t end up at Harvard, i’m sure we’ll all love the college we end up enrolling at. For the time being, let’s enjoy our last year of high school. I know I have so far!</p>
<p>We just send scores through SAT, correct? And enter “No” under the self-report section of Common App, without having to mention future dates we plan to test?</p>
<p>No, answer “yes” on self-reporting. That way schools will know your scores and will just need your score reports from the testing agencies to “confirm” them so to speak. All self reporting is is just writing your scores and test dates. That way, your application won’t be held up if score reports are somehow late getting to a school, because like I said, they’ll only be used as confirmations for the scores you self-reported on the common app.</p>
<p>I’m really nervous, I’m hoping to finish everything tonight and sit on it until tomorrow until I click the button. Really nervous that everyone else finished earlier than me or that I just might forget to do something (especially financial aid-wise). Also how important is writing the second ‘optional’ essay? Do I get notified for the interview once I submit the application?</p>
<p>Guys, some advice: when you’ve finished reviewing it for the 100th time or whatever and think you’re done, don’t submit just yet. Sleep on it, inspect every word once more and go through every section of the common app, and THEN submit. I just wanted to get the submission over with and thus forgot to list planned AP tests and made a couple other random mistakes.</p>
<p>@efeens44 But what if I don’t want to list every test I’ve taken?</p>
<p>@leatherlibrarian or anyone else, with regard to AP exams, the Common App only allows for 10 scores. I just put the 9 I’ve taken so far; I am taking 12 overall, but I figured it’d be weird to list just 1 of the 3 that I am taking in May 2014 since the application only allowed for ten scores. Is it okay that I just listed completed tests? Is there some other protocol I should’ve followed?</p>