<p>i’m still on the extended… ugh just give me a decision already!</p>
<p>Okay guys, just one last thought. There were around 150 waitlistees on this thread. 7 of us are still waiting to hear back from Harvard. If the original waitlist consisted of 708 people, (7*708)/150 equals (in a very unscientific way) around 33 people still waiting to hear back. The number of people who can say that they were a part of this distinguished group in the last 50 years is probably less than the number of freshmen at Harvard. So whatever happens, we all have great stories to tell our kids when they complain about the college admission process. </p>
<p>Last prediction: I think that 1-2 of us will be accepted and that we will be z-listed. I doubt anyone will be accepted for the class of 2014. Good luck!!!</p>
<p>I can see that my daughter did not put the name on your list. She is also a CCer.
We are from southwest region. My daughter got Z listed last week. We decided not to stay. We never planned for a gap year .
She wants to move on with life .Her exact words were" I love harvard, but I want to go to college this year"</p>
<p>Hope her decision will help someone form this group & wish you all the best.</p>
<p>Hi, mom 1967
I think your daughter made a good decision, but congratulations to your daughter! at least Harvard accept your daughter’s accomplishment. there still are many schools as good as Harvard. This is the beginning of life.just keep going. She will have a very bright future.Where does your daughter plan to go?</p>
<p>The perception about the z-list is that it is mostly for kids of alumni or kids who won’t need financial aid. I found these Harvard Crimson articles on-line and thought they might be of some interest.</p>
<p>[The</a> Back Door to the Yard | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/6/6/the-back-door-to-the-yard/]The”>The Back Door to the Yard | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>[Veritas</a> Has No ‘Z’ | The Harvard Crimson<a href=“a%20commentary%20on%20the%20above%20article”>/url</a></p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2010/3/30/students-year-harvard-zlist/]Z-Listed”>http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2010/3/30/students-year-harvard-zlist/]Z-Listed</a> Students Experience Year Off | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/10/17/veritas-has-no-z-it-is/]Veritas”>Veritas Has No 'Z' | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson)
(especially read the part called "A Legacy List?)</p>
<p>[Let?s</a> Be Real | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2010/5/12/harvard-college-students-financial/]Let?s”>http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2010/5/12/harvard-college-students-financial/)</p>
<p>As I wrote a while back, my daughter was waitlisted at Harvard, was rejected in the first wave, and is truly excited about going to Northwestern (she fell in love with Chicago, and I’m afraid we might lose her for good). This could make me a Harvard hater. However, my son will be going into his senior year at Harvard, we have, up till now, bled Crimson, and we are extraordinarily grateful for the financial aid restructuring that took place in time for my son’s final three years at Harvard (we haven’t gotten the aid package yet for this year, but we assume that it will be good). As you can see, on the one hand, I am a huge Harvard fan. On the other, I am annoyed that my daughter didn’t get in, but that a legacy or monied student might be getting in without the same qualifications. On my third hand ;-), if I want my son to get significant scholarship money, well, someone has to pay for it. Essentially, Harvard is helping to pay for my daughter’s Northwestern education. I go around in circles with this. I am happy that my daughter no longer gives a hoot and has started wearing a significant amount of purple.</p>
<p>Good luck to all of you! You are all going to be amazing people at some fabulous school!!!</p>
<p>She is going to Duke. She got into all other ivies to which she applied (except Yale- rejected) & got merit scholarships to Rice, JHU, and Washu. then she went & chose duke (where we are paying the full sticker price!). </p>
<p>We don’t know why she got Z listed. We are not legacies, did not apply for fin aid. The only thing came to our mind was her age- she is 16. She skipped grades. (May be they thought she can take a gap year??) </p>
<p>I know how frustrating this process can be. I hope at least some of you will hear good news from Harvard. Looking at all the univ/ colleges you all got accepted I feel that you will do fine wherever you go.</p>
<p>Being 16 is probably the case. Also, more kids are telling the AdCom upfront that they WANT a gap year, which gives the Committee a way to accept them without reducing this year’s admit number. I have heard of 3 z listers-- none of them are rich or legacies. I think that the journalists were working off of older data, or—Heaven forfend–the writer had an axe to grind. </p>
<p>BTW, the president of the UCC and several summas were former z listers this year…</p>
<p>I didn’t mean to get anyone’s hackles up. I just wanted to report back on what I had found out when scoping the issue. Clearly @etondad has more information than I do (I only know two past z-listers, and they were both daughters of alum). I didn’t mean to imply that anyone’s brilliant child didn’t get into brilliant schools and doesn’t deserve to be at all of them at the same time. As I’ve said before, all the kids who got waitlisted here clearly have lots going for them, and, as far as I can tell, are all going to fabulous schools. And as we can see from @mom1967’s daughter, she got into ivies, but decided to go to the school that she liked best even though it isn’t an ivy; that’s the way it should be. Congratulations to her! That’s all. As I think I’ve said in all of my measly 5 posts, you will all be amazing!</p>
<p>One thing, i think is that there will be a few spaces left over for the third rounders and for the class of 2014. These i take to be special cases in which the adcom has had significant difficulty coming to a discussion and they hold the places just in case.</p>
<p>Any news? 10 char</p>
<p>Nope- and I’m happy to say by the lack of posting on here it seems everyone has moved on.</p>
<p>blah got letterz. whatevs, midd is probably going to be more fun!</p>
<p>letterz? …</p>
<p>Sanguinity: Didn’t you post, on 5/21, that you were rejected? Did you receive another letter?</p>
<p>Acceptances from wait list are always proceeded by a phone call from the adcom regional rep-- not via the mail. not sure if sanguinity (who i thought did post a denial earlier) means “z list” but odd that someone who was denied is then suddenly “z listed.” if true those are AMAZING strings to pull–but then to say no? I think someone here is not being completely open.</p>
<p>right now the harvard admissions folks are hosting their annual conference (see the admissions website, subpage for counsellors) so i doubt any meetings are taking place these past few days.</p>
<p>I was rejected off the wait list a little while back in May, and I decided to revisit this thread for fun… and I just have to say, I cannot believe some of you are still waiting on your final decisions. I don’t know what I would do if I had to wait so long, but you all should be very proud. Harvard’s obviously having a hard time letting you go. Best of luck to you all!</p>
<p>True, some of us are still waiting. I’ve long since given up most of my hope and enthusiasm for Harvard as I get more committed to the place that took me in months ago (bonding with classmates, filling out housing forms, etc.). I should probably pull out before they tell me there’s no room at the inn, but somehow I can’t quite let go.</p>
<p>@ qizixite (#1862): where did you get the number 708?</p>
<p>i think that they will tell the last of us on monday. They were having their adcom meeting on friday</p>