<p>^^ Five years ago, my daughter did. </p>
<p>this is really strange… please arrive, letter!</p>
<p>@Harvey21344 have you received a letter?</p>
<p>Yes, got a personal handwritten letter from one of the senior admissions officer – I wasn’t sure if this was given out to everyone, because if it was I didn’t want to flood the officer’s inbox with a thank you others are probably sending</p>
<p>To all those students who have been deferred or rejected, as you go about the rest of the college applications process, here’s something that might help to brighten the next three months: </p>
<p>While some of Harvard’s faculty did attend the College, many of the administrators, professors and coaches earned their undergraduate degree elsewhere, including:</p>
<p>Drew Faust, Harvard College President, graduated from Bryn Mawr
Rakesh Khurana, Harvard College Dean, graduated from Cornell
Michael Sandell, Harvard Professor, graduated from Brandeis
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard Professor, graduated from Yale
Tim Murphy, Harvard Football Coach, graduated from Springfield College</p>
<p>Many famous and noteworthy people were outright rejected from Harvard, including: <a href=“Famous Harvard Rejects Named by Magazine - ABC News”>http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3201481</a></p>
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<p>Go where the winds take you and make those places better because you are on their campus. Best of luck to all of you in the coming months!</p>
<p>Did you get a call back? This is a crazy story. I can’t believe this happened to you. It must be a mistake on their end.</p>
<p>Investor Warren Buffet, - UPenn - Nebraska - Columbia
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, - Yale
Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner, - UC Berkley
NBC “Today” show host Meredith Vieira, - Tufts
former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw, - Iowa & South Dakota
New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick, - Princeton
CNN founder Ted Turner, folk rock legend - Brown
Art Garfunkel, - Columbia
Matt Groening, creator of the animated television series “The Simpsons,” - Evergreen State
Sun Microsystems chairman Scott McNealy, Stanford and Harvard
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center president Harold Varmus, Amherst, Columbia
Columbia University President Lee Bollinger. - Oregon - Columbia</p>
<p>Of the 12 people on the list, only 4 don’t have an Ivy League pedigree. Of those 4, one has UC Berkley and one has Tufts (not bad if you can’t get the Ivy). Only 2 do not have a “prestigious” university. One reads for a living and the other one draws cartoons. </p>
<p>To your argument of
, I ask what does this have to do with the price of tea in China?</p>
<p>When I read/hear this kind of “advice” or “wisdom”, it reminds me of “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” when the advisor clearly must know that the people can’t afford it. It’s just another way to keep people in their places.</p>
<p>^^ While you may disagree, I very much subscribe to Jeffrey Brenzel’s way of thinking over at Yale
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<p>ACCEPTED!</p>
<p>act:27
sat: 1700
no extracurriculars
leadership: dog walking business
GPA: 3.5</p>
<p>my dad works for Harvard though so that might have helped…best of luck to everyone else!</p>
<p>@mercurial23 I’m so sorry! That’s a horrible situation. Let us know if there’s any resolution.</p>
<p>Can anyone please tell me if I could exceed the word limit for the ECA supplement for Harvard? I am also an international applicant and I have to write “How would you like to use your education” supplement. In common application I couldn’t see the world limit beforehand. I wrote the ECA essay in like 500 words and when I pasted the essay in the box I was told to remove this many words. Same with the other essay. Do I have to be in the word limit? I really feel the essays are great with those many words.</p>
<p>@classified000 I’m not sure if you’re using something other than common app, but the 150 word limit is strict. You can’t add anything extra. At least I haven’t been able to 
The supplement itself is different as there is “no word limit”. </p>
<p>EDIT: Found it</p>
<p>Anyone who was defferd got an official letter in the mail?</p>
<p>@luvinbaba nope, did you? i was wondering if we should be receiving one.</p>
<p>So I got deferred and I called the Harvard Admissions Office to get my Regional Officer. I emailed him to ask if there were any holes in my application, like maybe I need to boost my grades or test scores or maybe get more leadership positions in extracurriculars and he said that there is nothing I can do to improve it. Did anyone else try to call the admissions office to find out what they could do to improve their chances for regular decision?</p>
<p>Did anyone on here who was accepted also receive a hand written note from an admissions officer?</p>
<p>^Yes, I did.</p>
<p>@Harvey21344 and @skieurope: do you think they send them to all EA-ers, or just to some? Have you heard of others?</p>
<p>@gibby do you think those personalized letters are common? I’m just curious if this is part of their general woo-ing process, or whether they single out certain students whose applications they liked?</p>
<p>@pipsicle I’m trying to figure that out as well. It was pretty personal…I just wonder if that’s standard procedure. </p>