who is my admissions officer?

etondad
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:38:53 +0000

There are few automatic admits except for “expected summa” (which I have seen on some students’ files, which travel with the admitted student throughout his/her Harvard career (scary, eh???) so watch out, the person who will write your House Letter for your Fellowship/medical/law school application will frequently refer to material in your application–I know I do). If readers write “summa” then there has to be a reason why not to admit the student.

BTW, the admissions people do well on their predictions–like with 55, although there will be summas they did not predict, very few of those whom they identified as “summas” in the admissions process do not graduate with that honor…pretty remarkable.