<p>Ohhh nooooooo…!! Boohoo… “sob”</p>
<p>I wish I would have applied EA to Harvard. I wasted it on Yale (deferred), which turned out to be more selective than Harvard. Now with such a low Harvard RD rate, I get the worst of both worlds.</p>
<p>Someone tell me how I can concentrate on school at all this week… ;_; All I think about is decisions! Ahhhhhh!!</p>
<p>This is less than the chance of one winning the Hunger Games</p>
<p>^I like how you think. Hahahahaha.</p>
<p>This also means the other Ivies will also have lower RD rates and overall lower acceptances rates due to the expected higher yield rates etc., hard to believe admissions have become even more of a crapshoot.</p>
<p>This has just gotten obscene.</p>
<p>Wow. This just ruined my day. HOWEVER…</p>
<p>Correct me if my reasoning is wrong, but the article seems to assume that this year’s RD matriculation rate will be ~80% like last years. However, it seems to me that if we have EA this year, that also should mean RD’s matriculation should be LOWER (since the most hardcore aspiring Harvardians have been accepted EA and will be matriculating there). Therefore, I don’t think that the overall matriculation rate should be much different than last years, with or without EA. EA merely takes the applicants that are more likely to matriculate from the RD pool.</p>
<p>I seriously hope that the Admissions Office takes that into consideration…unlike the authors of that Crimson’s article… Otherwise, we will have an excessive number of unnecessary waitlistees.</p>
<p>^^^Please tell me you are correct!!! 3% is just wayyy too depressing. I say we should look at Yale’s normal regular decision rates to get an idea of Harvard’s. Man 3%…3%…THREE PERCENT. Ahhh well there is always Grad school!</p>
<p>3% is like being a box of 100 people and having to ruthlessly fight - and win - against 97 of them… if you can just picture that in your head… okay I’m not making this any better, sorry :(</p>
<p>Then again, compared to the odds against ever being conceived in the first place, 3% sounds pretty good.</p>
<p>With this percentage, its more probable to win in the hunger games than get into harvard.
“may the odds ever be in your favor!”</p>
<p>So this is just the speculation of the article’s writer, correct? Not the thought process of the actual adcom?</p>
<p>^^^ The writer interviewed William Fitzsimmons (his quotes are pasted below). The conclusion, while speculative, is based upon solid math.</p>
<p>“Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that those who were accepted in December under the early action program will be more likely to matriculate. “In the past, the yield for early admission students has been higher than the yield for people applying regular admissions—in fact, 15 to 20 points higher typically,” Fitzsimmons said.”</p>
<p>“Expecting these eager admits, Fitzsimmons said that his office will be conservative in the number of students it admits this year to avoid overcrowding.”</p>
<p>Guys, the decision is two days away (less, in reality). Fretting over percentages and proportions is neither useful nor healthy. I appreciate the OP’s contribution, but I don’t think we should all freak out about the number.</p>
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<p>I imagine 100 applicants are put into a dark room of hope, depression, anxiety, and eagerness. Their fates are not decided by survival of the fittest, but by the whim of several unknown men who call themselves “the admission committee”. Some of the candidates pray, some silently wait, some go crazy, some fill their lives with activities; one thing in common, everyone wants to be that selected one. After three months of soul-destroying waiting, the admission committee suddenly slide open the door, filling the room with lights of hope. They randomly announce the names of three men and escort these euphoric individuals out. The rest is given a flat “sorry”, whilst a few are notified they might get picked at a later date. The officers then violently and callously slam the door shut, leaving the remaining 97 in shock, disbelief, and heartbroken.</p>
<p>I paint that picture in my mind to contribute to the already hopelessly bleak atmosphere of this thread.</p>
<p>^ Ha ha. That’s a good one. By the way, does anyone know the percentage of students that are usually waitlisted? And of these, how many are eventually admitted?</p>
<p>@persman So much imagery… dark imagery :(</p>
<p>@yaleeh I don’t know the stats but I know that very few are admitted off the waitlist since Harvard has a really high yield rate.</p>
<p>So…assuming regular admit rate is ~3%…what will the CC admit rate be?!</p>