Short Story Published

gibby
Sun, 20 Mar 2016 19:23:31 +0000

what exactly is admissions doing? Are they done reviewing applications?

My guess is that next week (March 21-24) is the last week of full committee meetings where regional admissions directors are presenting their top candidates to 40+ staff, half of whom are senior Harvard teaching faculty. The following week (March 28-30) is probably when the financial aid committee is meeting to calculate financial aid for every admitted student who applied for it.

IMHO your published short story would have to appear in a noted national publication, such as The New Yorker or The Atlantic for it to have any effect on your application. If the publication is not of that caliber, I wouldn’t even bother phoning Admissions about it, as I doubt you could even get an Admissions Officer on the phone as they would be in meetings all day long.