<p>@PcollegegirlP I want to say that the fact that we only have the required recs won’t hurt our chances. Sure, recs are nice, but once you have the required recs, the extra recs won’t be a make or break deal, I think. </p>
<p>And I’m definitely making a reaction video! Since it’s such an important moment, I feel like my reaction will be valuable to capture, whether its happiness or disappointment. </p>
<p>@lalib1997 yes from the city too</p>
<p>@NinetyNeinProbs @PcollegegirlP I second what @NinetyNeinProbs said. I was strongly considering not submitting an extra rec, and the reason I ultimately decide to submit an extra rec is that I wanted to highlight certain personal characteristics that don’t appear elsewhere on my application (especially since my strength lies not in my grades and test scores, but in my ECs and other subjective qualities). It’s a very individual process: I submitted an extra rec to fulfill a particular personal need, and if your application does not have that need and already paints a complete portrait of you, then another rec would just be noise. So don’t worry! :)</p>
<p>does harvard keep track of its visitor and then match applicants to them when they said they have campus visit?</p>
<p>@boomboom123,</p>
<p>Harvard doesn’t track demonstrated interest. Ultimately, it doesn’t need to. It’s Harvard. Very few people would actually pass on attending.</p>
<p>Harvard is the only school I’m applying that doesn’t require an essay with the prompt “WHY Harvard.” sure. make sense.</p>
<p>@lalib1997 Me!</p>
<p>but the interviewer asked.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t count it out completely, even if it’s minuscule. On the commonapp they had the choice for how you learned about harvard. They had the option for a visit and then asked for the month and year.</p>
<p>@nomatterwhat @NoRsinBoston How did you guys answer “Why Harvard”, assuming you were asked during your interviews? </p>
<p>@plumplum @alee29 Nice to meet you! What boroughs are you from?</p>
<p>I too have been lurking on this thread for a while. I’m an aspiring paloclimatologist. I want to use environmental engineering and sustainable development to find more effective “solutions” to climate change rather than just impractically trying to lower CO2 emissions. I believe that studying how the Earth dealt with past “global warmings” would give us valuable insight on how to deal with the contemporary, human-induced climate change.</p>
<p>I am also a short story writer. But I am terrible, and I mean terrible. I switched to writing essays about how terrible of a short story writer I am, but why I still continue to write for the sheer devotion of writing.</p>
<p>@Ninetyneinprobs I don’t think I was asked it. I’m not sure if my interviewer planned to ask or not, but I think I answered it while responding to other questions.</p>
<p>@lalib1997 That’s such an interesting field! I’ve actually never heard of it until now, so thank you for educating me. And I’m a writer, too! I think it’s fantastic that you stuck to writing, even if you think you aren’t very good at it (which probably isn’t true). That’s really admirable. Welcome. :)</p>
<p>@NinetyNeinProbs I wasn’t actually asked the question, but when my interviewer asked if there was anything else I wanted to talk about, I did answer “Why Harvard.” I talked about my emotional and intellectual experience when I visited campus and sat in on one of the classes, and then I discussed the overall spirit of the school.</p>
<p>@lalib1997
Queens! But I go to school in Manhattan</p>
<p>How many of you have visited Harvard before? I haven’t gotten the chance to see the campus before. :(</p>
<p>I’ve visited 3 or 4 times…It’s really amazing in my opinion xD in a nice part Boston but has its own fairly separate campus, which for me is the perfect balance</p>
<p>I have yet to visit any of my east coast colleges but I’m going in February! I’m so glad that my interviewer didn’t ask “Why Harvard” because at that point I had no real good reasons tbh, I didn’t even want to interview because this was a “frick it” school at first aha… then I started to get attached as D-day approached</p>
<p>I love writing! AP English is definitely my favorite class this year! One of my poems is actually published ;)</p>
<p>You guys are definitely the nicest people I have ever met on this site. One time this guy told me I couldn’t get into
ASU because I accidentally put “Kronkite” instead of “Cronkite”</p>