<p>What is QuestBridge? I’m an international so I’m not exactly familiar with a lot of these things lol. Do QuestBridge applicants receive their decisions early or something?</p>
<p>Guys, I’m in trouble, my November SAT Subjects German w list & Math 2 are still unavailable on the Collegeboard due to the makeup German test. The scores will be only on 6 Dec. What am I supposed to do? Omg, I’m so anxious about that</p>
<p>@Karabekian I was super tight with one of my teachers who wrote my rec even before she wrote it. I think that sort of relationship actually helped my letter of rec because she got to know me as a person, not just as a student. </p>
<p>@missdianaKhr I would simply rush deliver the scores when they come out. Also, subject tests are optional at Harvard, so it’s not like they can’t consider your application without them. To be honest, they are already evaluating apps. At this point, if you took a November tests, it could possibly push you into the acceptance pile if you’ve made it to the committee, but if you’re already a definite yes no or deferral, then it really won’t make a difference. They only bring very strong cases to the committee by the way. The majority of applications have already been evaluated. </p>
<p>@oxoxhawja3xoxo, wait, so people (other than athletes and other likely letter recipients) have already been put into the “accept” pile. So not every qualified person goes to committee?</p>
<p>@howtocollege how tight is super tight? haha</p>
<p>@Karabekian This year is her third year as my English teacher, she knew me since I was a freshman. She likes me a lot; freshman year she taught my whole freshman class (small school) and selected me to win the English 9 award, which was pretty epic. Starting last year we’d often have 40+ minute conversations after school about random things like books or music or whatever else happened to be going on in our lives. I actually had a lengthy conversation with her today about college and such. </p>
<p>@HobbitTon for some reason I think that really, really qualified people wouldn’t be viewed by the committee, since there would probably be like thousands of apps that would have to be reviewed at committee level at that point. </p>
<p>@HobbitTon Nope. There would be way too many applications to read. There has to be some process that narrows it down. The regional reader reads your application first. If you’re unqualified, they can reject you. If you are an athlete, important legacy, or have completed some amazing feat, they can also accept you right away. I have heard that people can get likely letters for academics also in rare cases. Otherwise, from the rest of the applications, they score you in different areas, like academics, personality, and extracurricular activities. I’d assume there must be some cut off cumulative score that gets you to the committee. People who don’t make that, I’m sure are simply deferred. This is just my theory of how it works. I for a fact read somewhere that they do score you though. It was from a Harvard article actually. And I know that your regional reader reads your application first. And I also am sure that not everyone’s application is read by the committee. Take my theory with a grain of salt though. Besides, the committee began it’s meeting today. That means that they have decided the fate for some of us already. ahhhh. </p>
<p>That made me 10x more nervous.</p>
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The below article is 12 years old, but if William Fitzsimmons wants an applicant – be they an athlete, legacy, high achieving academic student or developmental case (child of a big $$ donor) – I suspect those kids get in without much discussion. Maybe William Fitzsimmons presents them to the Committee, but with his recommendation, I bet they all get quick approval.</p>
<p><a href=“WSJ.com - Admissions Preferences Given To Alumni Children Draws Fire”>http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Polk_Alumni.htm</a>
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<p>@oxoxhawja3xoxo That’s what I heard too! Also, it’s true that people can get likely letters for academics; my friend received a likely letter to Stanford after winning multiple entrepreneurship awards and hackathons, finishing lots of research projects, and developing some incredible mobile applications using AI techniques, etc.</p>
<p>Is anyone else really freaked out by the thought that today, Admissions may have decided the fates of any number of us? Knowing that they’re currently deliberating in committee just makes that much more nervous for the 11th/12th!
@emenya: Best of luck in the RD round! </p>
<p>@frozens Kind of freaked out, but trying to focus on the load of work presented to me by my wonderful teachers prior to Christmas break.</p>
<p>Is it confirmed that we’ll get decisions on/by the 12th?</p>
<p>@zerowulf i called today to ask about sat stuff and also asked about decision date. I was told December 12th but the person on the phone said it was a Thursday, so that doesn’t really match. </p>
<p>It’s either the 11th or the 12th, but it honestly doesn’t matter. We’ll find out in less than two weeks.</p>
<p>@harvard00 either way, hopefully we won’t have to wait over the weekend?</p>
<p>So scary to think that the committee is already reading our applications. I’m pretty curious whether decisions will be released on the 11th or 12th.</p>
<p>@Zerowulf yeah i’m glad we don’t have to wait over that weekend i’d probably spend every second worrying about the decisions </p>