***Official Harvard Waitlist Thread**** With TIPS from Those Accepted last Year

kclubs
Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:17:41 +0000

Here is part 2 to another person’s question as to who to send the letter to

Hey even though i was waitlisted, i still felt like I was already accepted to harvard (It’s just that my acceptance letter got lost in the mail lol). You have to keep you head and hopes up. I mean that’s why i was able to convey why i wanted to go here so vehemently. it’s perfectly fine if you want to send a hard copy. But The thing is that it’s going to go into your file anyway. You have to realize that it’s probably a good number of people on the waitlist and they are all sending in stuff (most of them too much I might add). So it has to be filed away, but i can assure you that it will be read. BUT I WOULD NOT SEND IT TO THE DEAN OF ADMISSIONS. He gets far to much mail and he really isn’t the one that will be making a case for you to come here, THAT JOB FALLS TO YOUR REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE. so here’s how the process works as i remember it last year: your reg rep rereviews all the waitlisted students from their area that accepted and brings each case to the board (which is made up of all the reg reps and the dean) and presents a case on why you should be admitted and then they all vote. YOUR REG REP IS YOUR SINGLE GREATEST ALLY IN THE ADBOARD so prove to HIM/HER why you should be here. (Sorry if i wasn’t clear before, but for your given area, let’s say Philadelphia, there is a reg rep who is the person that reads all of the apps from that area. During the reg admission process they make the case for who should be admitted and who should not. And that is a reg rep, and why they are so important.)

So if i were you I would email your reg rep telling him/her that you will be sending them a hard copy of your comic (maybe give a little abstract on what it’s about). Again you can just call up the office and ask who that person is for your area. Then i would send it to the address of the offics of finaid and admissions, and put on the envelope or on a piece of paper in side that you intend for it to go to your reg reps mailbox (not the dead because i simply don’t have access to him, i dont even know what he looks like), but its your decision . Either way it will be put into your folder, BUT I GUARANTEE THAT IT WILL BE READ. this is why i say just send in one - two things: it keeps things concise and easy to read. You don’t want to bog down the person who’s fighting for you.

Anyway it’s my pleasure to help, and i’m always available. i really identify with waitlistees (for obvious reasons) that is why im not hosting any Pre-frosh. I mean they get all the attention , but when the waitlisters are accepted they don’t get a weekend or anything. they get neglected and feeds the thought that you don’t belong here. That’s why i’m trying to set something up so that you guys get recognized when you get you letter (Which WILL HAPPEN and probably around mid may,. ACTUALLY IT WILL BE A PERSONAL PHONE CALL FROM YOUR REG REP (i got mine on may 22… i think lol), which i think is better seeing as you also get you letter the next day, it’s like a little bonus.

Can’t wait till you get your phone call and come to campus. hope you get placed into CABOT house in two yrs for housing day (like me lol). again sorry for the sloppiness i had to rush and write up a rough draft for a final paper and am a lil tired.

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