Official Harvard SCEA Class of 2019 Applicants Thread

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<p>@messibarca: Some applications have already been screened by regional admissions officers as accepted or rejected, which may never make it to committee. This takes away a good portion of applications. </p>

<p>As for the rest of them, each is reviewed for a minute or two by the committee and voted on. They work long days and do not stop until all decisions have been made. </p>

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<p>Guys, doesn’t this video actually tell us that all applications go to the committee?
I mean, he said, that they start all over and analyze each applicant again… So it means that each applicant is brought up to the committee , right?
<a href=“A Glimpse of the Admissions Process - YouTube”>A Glimpse of the Admissions Process - YouTube;

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<p>@Karabekian‌ omg I hadn’t seen these videos, they’re so good. Lol now I’m gonna spend so much time watching all of them. Hmmm I haven’t seen Inception in quite a while but yeah it was insane. Idk I guess right now Interstellar is on my mind since I watched it last night and I’m still reeling from it haha so I guess I should go rewatch Inception to decide. What do you think?</p>

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<p>@PoorKid41‌ only about 20% of apps are even going to the committee. Your regional admissions officer has already thoroughly read your file. Then 1 or 2 other regional officers read the file. They can toss you into the rejection pile right there. They also rank you by a lot of different things. From your recs and essays, they give you a personality ranking. From your transcript and scores, an academic ranking. From all your extra curriculars, they’ll give you a score. I’m pretty sure there must be an overall cut off score for making it to the committee and the rest of the applicants are deferred. </p>

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<p>In previous years, the full committee meeting did not begin meeting until after the Thanksgiving break. If that holds true this year, the full committee will meet from December 1st to about December 13/14 reviewing the strongest applicants. </p>

<p>It’s important to remember that most applicants ARE NOT voted upon by the full committee – only those students who the Regional Chair thinks can garner the majority vote are brought to the full committee. As there are about 40 members of the Admissions Committee, including Admissions Officers and faculty, successful applicants must garner at least 51% of the vote to be admitted. In addition to all the Admissions Directors, the faculty sitting on the Committee last year included: <a href=“College admits Class of ’18 — Harvard Gazette”>http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/03/college-admits-class-of-18/&lt;/a&gt;

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<p>The below article details the process: <a href=“Stairway to Harvard | News | The Harvard Crimson”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/7/7/stairway-to-harvard-span-stylefont-style-italicthis/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Speaking of videos, Have any of you seen the Ivy League Dreams series on Youtube? Its really interesting and relatable. Thoughts?</p>

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<p>Thanks @gibby!
And Happy Thanksgiving to all! :D</p>

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<p>@oxoxhawja3xoxo When you say “only about 20% of apps are even going to the committee”, you are talking about regular round, right? Since last year Harvard accept 21% in early round :))
@gibby Thank you! </p>

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<p>@PoorKid41‌ oh yeah, I mean 20% of apps total. I’m sure the process is similar for early round, just with a larger percentage of applications! </p>

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<p>Two more weeks. (The number of days left was literally just in the twenties…what happened to all that time!!!)</p>

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<p>Are decisions released on the 11th or 12th? I thought they were announced on Fridays. </p>

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<p>@calliemoon11‌ totally agree! Two weeks, I think I will survive lol…
Can’t wait to find out the exact date & time! :-SS </p>

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<p>@Benzy50‌ The admissions office says most probably the 11th.</p>

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<p>I don’t know how I’ll be able to breathe the day decisions are released</p>

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<p>@harvard00‌ I know! I was just thinking about opening the e-mail and I had trouble breathing.</p>

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<p>Also, to the people who are nervous about not being contacted for an interview: in last year’s thread, some people were contacted right before Decisions Day by the admissions office for a phone interview. So, if the office thinks that your application would be benefitted or supported in any way by a conversation with you, they’ll do one! And if they ultimately never request an interview, that means that an interview wouldn’t have made a difference on your application anyway. :)</p>

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<p>I am cooking a Thanksgiving dinner for my family today, and will try to get a picture posted tomorrow. Can anyone give me a website that I can post the picture (I have never done this for this site). I am only doing this for the CC community. If you don’t believe it, that is fine (I am having hard time to believe it myself). If you want to make comments, be respectful.</p>

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<p>@etr009 As mentioned upthread, don’t waste your time; I will delete any photos posted here as well as any links to external photo-sharing websites.</p>

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<p>I’m a little confused about the “regional” reading part… Is this gonna be where we are going to school or where we are from? Is there an “unclassified” region for those who move around too much? How would the regional officers deal with those?</p>