<p>Isme,</p>
<p>If sending your email will help you vent and blow off steam, by all means send it. While I think some of your analogies don’t really work, it doesn’t do any harm. But please understand that it will not change Harvard’s decision or your son’s situation. Nor does it change the fact that, even if Harvard had admitted 40 transfer students, as it did last year, the overwhelming likelihood (97%) is that your son would not have been admitted anyway. And as many others in this thread have pointed out, while the situation stinks, there’s no basis for any legal claims. Harvard has no legal obligation to admit any transfer students - it’s on a space-available basis and there wasn’t space. Should they have figured this out earlier? Absolutely. Do they have legal liability? Absolutely not.</p>
<p>Finally, I agree with other posters who have said that the best thing that transfer applicants can do at this point is to get on with their lives. I know that may sound a little harsh, and I am sympathetic to the transfer applicants, but they need to accept what is and put it behind them.</p>