<p>its really too bad that all these rich board members and deans of students think that they are somehow entitled to something just by their position and wealth and feel that they have the right and privilege to mess with the hopes and dreams of 19 year old kids simply because they can. the actions previously elucidated further affirm my opinion that ivy leaguers think that they are smarter and feel more entitled than they really are.
shoutouts to laura colman, marianna linz and kumar chatterjee.</p>
<p>A reminder that it’s fine to use CC to vent about your feelings about this situation. However, stay within terms of service, which means not flaming or using any profanity.</p>
<p>i forgot…we’re children.</p>
<p>juenetics: they’ve been getting a lot of grief in the admissions office for letting in too many kids and exacerbating the housing crunch. It came to a head this year and so the admissions office is finally acting responsibly and cutting freshman admissions and transfer admissions. This may be hard for people to stomach, but transfer admissions have always taken a backseat to freshman admission (hence why they don’t decide on transfers until later). As such, they like to maximize the number of freshman admits they can take who will be able to take advantage of all four years here, before they turn to transfers (who are also inherently worthy and have their own merits). </p>
<p>Long story short, they’re going to be getting a lot of angry letters and calls in the next few weeks from rejected freshmen. Don’t expect the added angst of spurned transfer-apps to tip the balance. This is an exercise in futility.</p>
<p>As an aside; ajp - were you a transfer app?</p>
<p>“anyone from inside harvard has any news of whether the adcom is going/not going to change their minds about this year’s admissions?”</p>
<p>I’m not inside Harvard, but I am confident they aren’t going to change their minds.</p>
<p>So as a freshman applicant, I can understand the pain that you must be feeling right now, having put so much time and effort into an application.</p>
<p>But to me, some of the responses have gone over the top.</p>
<p>Firstly, no one should have been banking entirely on a transfer acceptance. I empathize with the fact that you have “fallen in love with Harvard,” spending money to visit and so forth, only to be told “no.” But that’s college admissions in a nutshell; these feelings aren’t only happening to you, but to the thousands of students who apply to their dream school anywhere- transfer or otherwise- and are rejected. Only focusing on Harvard as a transfer would be the same as applying to Harvard as a freshman without any safeties (and actually worse, because the transfer acceptance rate is historically much lower).</p>
<p>Secondly, I doubt the aim of this whole fiasco was to personally inconvenience or dupe anyone. These are PEOPLE, after all, who made this decision, people who I am assuming are trying to have the best interests of everyone at heart. But the people who come first in this situation are, for better or worse, the students who have already gained admission to Harvard- that their experience is as best as it can be, and overcrowding would detract from that experience. Unfortunately, because we can’t have it all, some other positives- such as the presence of transfer students- have to be sacrificed. It’s a shame, but it’s reality.</p>
<p>And while it would have been nice for the admissions office to give notice a little earlier than they did, to say the least, I think that what some of the other posters have said regarding study abroad figures makes sense. With study abroad and other “gap” experiences have seen a national boom, perhaps Harvard expected the same to happen on their campus, which lead them to believe they would have spots this year. Why would Harvard deliberately waste time and resources reading applications if they knew they had literally no chance of acceptance?</p>
<p>And if this one undoubtedly mishandled situation managed to make you think that Harvard is a “vile, despicable university,” then maybe it wouldn’t have been the greatest fit. And no matter how many angry letters you send to the admissions office or the dean or the media, I doubt anything will change. Like the many other students who will be rejected from Harvard this year, all you can do is move forward. If you let this break you, Harvard won. But if you work hard and make Harvard regret not making an exception for you, you become the winner.</p>
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<p>I’m even less inside Harvard than Hanna, but it’s quite clear that the decision is already set, and will not be changed. All of the transfer applicants are, it would seem to me, already in college, and now is the time for them to make the best of the college situation they are in.</p>
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<p>Yes, realism is important in the college application process. The thread on this forum mentioning the importance of having a safety college </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/357223-what-your-favorite-safety-college.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/357223-what-your-favorite-safety-college.html</a> </p>
<p>was posted in June 2007 and has had thousands of views since then, so this shouldn’t be a new issue to participants on this forum.</p>
<p>They should refund all applicants their $65 application fee. This is totally unfair.</p>
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<p>Read the fine thread. They have. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=522698[/url]”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=522698</a> </p>
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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/476671-transfer-admissions-announcement-post1059999661.html?highlight=fees#post1059999661[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/476671-transfer-admissions-announcement-post1059999661.html?highlight=fees#post1059999661</a> </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/476671-transfer-admissions-announcement-post1059999417.html?highlight=fees#post1059999417[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/476671-transfer-admissions-announcement-post1059999417.html?highlight=fees#post1059999417</a> </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/476671-transfer-admissions-announcement-4.html?highlight=fees#post1059994249[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/476671-transfer-admissions-announcement-4.html?highlight=fees#post1059994249</a> </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/476671-transfer-admissions-announcement-post1059994164.html?highlight=fees#post1059994164[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/476671-transfer-admissions-announcement-post1059994164.html?highlight=fees#post1059994164</a></p>
<p>This is so terrible. Ugh. It’s ghastly. Sorry to all of you who tried and put so much talent, time and money into this endeavor…god. How ridiculous. It’s one thing to not accept transfers, but the fact of the matter is this was so poorly handled and the timing was so off.</p>
<p>i’m sick of all these pansy responses. no i’m not a harvard transfer applicant but one of my best friends was, and she is completely heartbroken. it doesn’t matter that she probably wasn’t going to get into anyway, thats not the point at all. to spend all of that time for a 0% chance of admission when she thought, like every other applicant, that they had a 1-5% chance, makes this school a despicable and vile university. no respect was shown to these applicants and therefore no respect should be shown back.</p>
<p>by voicing frustration in a harsh manner does not mean that harvard is “breaking” my friend or any other applicant. the point is to “BREAK” these lowlifes in admissions that caused so much pain unnecessarily when it could all have been avoided months ago. don’t let them get away with murder. maybe being brash wont bring any acceptances to anybody but it sure can be used to bring this terrible school to justice.</p>
<p>i’m sticking to my opinion and everyone who feels the same should do the same. you people trying to defend harvard or say to move on or else it will break you is just an ignorant person that was not hurt or affected at all by this ridiculous situation. if you were in different shoes…your tune would MUCH DIFFERENT.</p>
<p>Sure this sucks…but I don’t believe in just moving on right away. I put my heart in this and to just let it go is indeed acting like a defeatist. Yeah…I’ll get over it eventually…but I don’t think it’s anyone’s place to tell the applicants to just get over it. I feel completely disrespected by Harvard and I’m not going to let that fly.</p>
<p>If I deny the feelings now they will just come up later in a passive manner. So people can just shut up with their “godly” quotes and preaching Dr. Phil worthy advice. It makes me absolutely disgusted to read some of the peoples posts on here…stop pretending to know what you’re talking about…and telling us how to feel.</p>
<p>i agree totally with ajp. only those who have applied, or know of those who have applied, would truly sympathise with the whole situation. </p>
<p>i can’t even start to talk about how heartbroken i felt. i mean, my top dream school is princeton, but i’m not upset that i can’t study there because there wasn’t even a transfer option to begin with - but i’ve been working towards harvard for the past 20 months, and to be rejected in such a cruel fashion is not nice at all.</p>
<p>i don’t know what else i can do. iit’s like the death of something deep and personal inside me.</p>
<p>Agreed ^^^</p>
<p>I know how you feel juenatics. I’m sorry this had to happen to us…</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, how many of you applied to transfer to other schools?</p>
<p>I’m so sorry for all of you who applied and were dealt this blow. If I were you, I’d be heartbroken. No one really has the right to tell you to move on, especially if you have been planning to apply for a very long time. Good luck in all that you do.</p>
<p>Uhhh…i applied to Transfer and i’m not down in the dumps. It’s just the way i feel. I can move on.</p>
<p>By the way, i did not apply to any other schools</p>
<p>umm ok. Well good for you. What do you want…a medal?</p>