#Harvard. The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I fe (2022-2023)
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heh?
dude I've been drawing for 12 years lmao
OK that's way too artsy for me
meh it’s always been a hobby
if you’ve been hardcore drawing for 12y you’re probably a lot better
I don't know if fanart counts but if it does then yea
maybe
I wouldn’t say so lol. I appreciate your enthusiasm but I think it’s just to get more info like most schools
okay i meant as an intl and i thought there was a march 1 deadline
i mean for intl
i’m mixing it up
prolly sorry
i was thinking intl
Yeah I'm Indian
hi! does anyone know what a second interview means?
Likely incoming? 👀
maybe really dug deep into your activities and stuff.
it sounds really good tho. Def borderline because two interviews is definitely intentional and uncommon
it means theyre gonna reject u but they wanna troll u first
but on a real note it depends
is it n ao interview or second alum interview
i think if u get a 2nd interview it’s kinda apparent they’re considering you
especially if it’s from an AO
suspicious
You just listed the two possibilities, so you could’ve told them it means either one of those
Pretty sure you’re the guy who asked me for my ECs as well so that’s why I said that
Sorry
what are your ecs luck enlighten us

bro called luck guest
smh
I would have told you if you didn’t call me guest, calypso

:(
i’m sorry it was force of habit
i made a joke
i don’t normally make jokes about you
that’s a good thing
🇷
🅰️ 🇷 🇩

😢



What is this shit
harvar
why are you a yale simp?
based luck
bro live in UP
I said I had to travel there for 24 hours on the train
yaa kinda sucks and stinks
great thing you still studied for APS and applied to all those school
closest city is 6 hours in train lol
only if Harvard feel that
but yeah bro you should have a banger essay
are you only applying to harvard
Nah but HARVRD like is my life mission
insane
there are better unis for engineering than harvard
but yeah harvard is harvard
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Harvard = 💌
Damn okay discord
I don't really have anything to say, I just hope that effort pays off for you - that's a really impressive thing to do
I'm in a similar situation (I'd need to take a two hour flight and then drive for another hour to reach the closest SAT test center), and it's definitely pretty tough
Best of luck
good morning, nerds
u called? 😆
What did he say
..?
(gonna post this in all ivy chats)
we’re in the home stretch people! i know it’s easy to be nervous but even if we don’t get the results we want it’ll all work out in the end. i promise ❤️
The message you responded to is gone
good outlook
im a glass half full kinda guy
i like that
bro i cant wanymore
i need it tobe april
💀
not cause of decisions but because im so tired of the shit from school lmao
meeeee IB is tearing me to shreds
teehee
average ib day
i’m actually terrified for friday
i want the admitted student reply form too
if i don’t get in i’ll just crash it
😟
i’m jk of course 🥱

you’ll see me in august 😈
i visited harvard on the day of freshman orientation last august
and my aunt met me after she helped wrap it up bc she apparently speaks and leads people around for that
🥰
ooooookay
art HL aware
schoology app is such an L 💀
I was asked to lengthen this post’s name
The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a
That’s the max
Ur welcome
Oh shit
Harvard needs to be in front
Harvard. The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can g
oh my god im so dumb i didnt even realize that the copy paste was jfks letter 😭😭
Lol
what makes it even worse is that ive read that thing with my friend like six times because its fucking funny
bro same
i feel u
i have a lit paper 2 tomoreow 💀
and then a french paper 1 on thursday
but i feel so confident in french for some reasona fter my io grade
like what the fuc
maybe im a french god????
je suis un dieu de francais???
peut etre???
je n'ai aucun idéé
peut etre je vais rater tous mes examens francais oui
c'est la vie quoi
me when i don’t understand
i’m going to fail friday but it’s ok
whats firday for u
my french io
oh sheeet
good luckkkkk
im so glad to be done with IB stuff
💀
😭
i wish i took history
and then i should definitely prep for french
stead of fucking psychology
just study ur grammar if ur not skilled at that
si if
subjunctive
advanced negation
relative pronouns using dont and lequel
conditionelle
compound tenses
different parts of past sentence (plus que parfait)
etc.
and then study cultural connections
u need a bunch
thats like the second most important thing
for each theme
remember u can speak about francophone stuff too
i’m in ab initio and we were only told about the present tense of all of the forms except for passé compose, subjonctive, and imparfait
yeah
we don’t have a SL or HL french
💀 ur hardes tpassage on reading test is apparently our first passage
literally gonna cry
like its our easiest passage
😭
💀
reading is impossible at hgiher levles bro
listening is easy
speaking is ok
wrting is ok
reading is freaking hard
because the entire time i’ve been google translating shit 😭
reading is easy for me
we read SL passages
all the time
never have a problem
i’m just not good at thinking of words to speak
yea
fair
takes time
i been learning french for 6 years now 💀
anad i still suck
💀 💀 💀
i blamne educartion system!
oh i thought ab iniito was for compeltely new kids
the requirement for us to take it
was french 1 and 2
and if you were able to take the 3/4 class
you should’ve taken it
which i did
but yeah it kinda sucks. we weren’t really speaking ever except for the assignments she gives us and is like “use your computer to write about x image and then speak it”

she also said if you can you should schedule time with her after school to do a practice ia because she has practice images which are essentially the image she’s giving us friday
is delf b2 equivalent to AP French?
AB INITIO IS THE BEST HTING EVER
💀
This may be a dumb question but what is this? I already had an alumni interview late january "
"
bruh take it
this is really good
it's an AO interview
might just be for a likely ngl
yea ofc lmfao. No oone would reject it, just wanted some clarification on what it was
is this a randomly assigned thing like the alumni interviews or is it selective?
got it, thanks. Appreciate the 6 am response lol
I’m international lol, 2pm here
the grind begins
i’m memorizing french words
the thing i’m really good at is busting my back absorbing language like a sponge and i can do it quickly
i already know how to say i bought a ticket for my trip to france and was going to my plane but i fell and died
Stay strong king 👑
t-2 to french IA
bonne chance
merci beaucoup!!
my french teacher just said “if you forget a word, say it in english with a french accent”
😭
does gettin an interview from harvard mean anyth for ints - asking for a friend ( i actually am )
It means auto rejection jk
it means that an alumni was available
(if ur in uk or canada)
pakistan
where you from
could not be further from the actuality here LOL
was it a likely?
Someone I know got an AO interview request today as well
insane keep us updated
let us know what it was after you go
harvard L
I haven't gotten any interview requests or anything yet should I be worried
world class at something (not trying to brag), shouldn't I expect something??
Are they still doing requests?
No and not alumn ones i dont think
So it's a bad sign? I heard interviews were particularly important for Harvard
Well it certainly isn't a good sign. But idk if I'd say bad sign either
autoadmit 
if i send in a loci now (deferred) will they read it?
Doubt it, grades are pretty mid
SAT is fine but I heard it doesn't carry much weight anymore
I mean I'd like to think my main EC and my others are pretty impressive but no interview isn't really helping
Same for Yale, no interview there either
are you international
Domestic
https://archive.advancingjustice-la.org/sites/default/files/(419-55) SEALED HARV00001392-1438 Interviewer Handbook 2014-2015 (002).pdf Even in the alumni interview handbook it does say that a lack of an interview doesn't necessarily mean that you won't be admitted
I'm in a relatively populous area so I'd think they would have people in the area
Even if not don't they schedule virtually?
That’s 2014-15 though surely things might change?
Idk who am I to say I haven’t gotten an interview 😭
iirc, this document is one of the driving factors for the Harvard court case, and based off of their arguments, a similar document should still be circulation. One of my recs does the interviews and confirmed that it's pretty accurate still
Oh cool thank you! Honestly has calmed my nerves a bit
Me too 😔
Like did they hate me that much please just give me a chance
Did you have a harvard interview
No like fr!! I think they got lost in the mail
checked all my spam still nothing
😦
where are you Yale..
I check my spam multiple times a day
My english teacher yelled at me for being on my phone
im gonna do an application update if I don’t get one in the next few days
look at my application again please kind folks!
Do you have an update
ya
doubt tbh my recs aren’t as strong
n interview is mainly personal characteristics I thought
welp guess i got rejected since I haven't gotten an interview request yet
and im intl
oh well theres always Stanford
I wish but idts 😭
I've only read one of my recs that I sent
It was great but idk about the other one
ya bro we aren’t Apollo 😭
cracked ass
no fr lmao
Is that the fucking JFK Harvard essay in the thread name 💀💀💀
I'm losing hope
Bruh I’m beyond loosing hope 💔
As an intl with no interview offer… (and currently suffering from mono) it’s hard to enjoy myself LOL
interviews practically mean nothing
even yale extended interviews to be nothing really more than availability
What about AO interviews then
Someoen sent a Harvard like document thing and although it was from 2015 it said in like the first line that interviews were v important
AO interviews are different
with covid, they aren’t
I didnt even know there were AO interviews omg
not everyone has access to an in person or online interview
more applicants + less alumni interviewing
so 🤷♀️ and it’s all pretty much random
Yeah makes sense
i can’t believe it’s march already though
You say that but mostly everyone who's gotten in has had an interview
Welp! Can only pray that the next three weeks pass fast
it feels like 10 minutes ago it was december
mood
So trueee march creeps up becuase February is only 28 days
they offer interviews to ~70% of applicants though and there are definitely edge cases I think. if you’re in an area where one wouldn’t be available then it doesn’t count against you
I'm not in the middle of nowhere though
i was upset for awhile because all of my friends got harvard interviews rea, and i never got one until a week or two before decisions.
it takes awhile
If u dont get a interview it means nothing
Yeah I’m in central london LOL
Alumni get lists of people and randomly choose
yep
Just means u got unlucky
So they didn't like my name I see
I learn so much from a2c it’s not even funny
Like where would I be without it
I had no idea they choose from a list
they’re randomly assigned
they get random assignments
and all they have is name, high school, phone number, and email
my guy didn’t know i wanted to go into astrophysics i don’t think
he was from canada which was cool
i’m mid atlantic region
sometimes if they overflow an alumni will take some more applicants to interview
My interview was from a highschool like 30 mins from mine
My Stanford interviewers kid went to my neighbouring school!
Yea they also try to give interviewers who went to nearby schools
my harvard interviewer grew up in my area, but lived in montreal
Bc theyre more likely to have a similar hs experience
and it’s also really cool, he went to undergrad at caltech for nuclear astrophysics
Damn
That’s so cool
Caltech has the actual most beautiful campus
I loved it so much
Loaded resume lmao
absolute unit of a man
rip to internationals then
bro wtf is this shit
😭
definition of cracked
how the fuck did he go from undergrad at caltech in nuclear astro to duke med
what the fuck
yeah it was wild
he did
caltech nuclear astrophys -> harvard applied phys PhD math PhD -> duke med
and then did like 4 different post docs and worked at WUSTL for awhile
he told me it’s never too late to pursue your passions
meanwhile me... my interviewer asked me what research ive done 4 times...
Bro had all the med school pre req classes too
🧍♀️
😭
im still not over that
Me when not a singular interview
and it was 2 weeks ago
😭
😭
ive never had an interviewer ask me. what research ive done.
like bestie.
wtf.
😭
noooo
its ok
columbia? more like.
columpoopia
💃
no lol plenty of people get in without interviews
guest got in without an interview
wtf
the fuck
I think this is the third time I mentioned it here
ok well 20 of those kids are lying
No
I have checked insta bios
B)
🤣
shush
99/412 from my school
ur the only one
wtf kinda school do you go to
Accept/Applied
Uh have you heard of Stuyvesant
😭
😭
no way this guy is a stuy kid
“yeah i’m not stuy i’m actually exeter get it right”
Lmao no
Exeter kids are stuck up
From the ones I met
The one dalton kid I met
Nice person
if ur from nyc i can kinda infer
i have a friend who goes to a certain prestigious hs in nyc
he’s not from stuy
Francis Lewis?
stuy is huge-
its so luxurious
😭
nah he goes to a school in manhattan
i wouldnt even go to college
id just stay there
and never leave
might as well live there
my god
seems like trinity
so ive reduced my expectations to ucsb :) cuz my parents went there
ohh what ur public
💃
zamn
were you the bronx school of science guy
yep
Why am I here
I didn’t even do harvards
💀
I know one person got deferred
Other accepted
@humble stirrup rizzics
W
:) im gonna. buy a cake. after i get accepted into community college/
Wanna do MS in aeronautics at cal tech
🥲
yea i know i’m not getting in for undergrad but
grad id like to do an astrophysics phd
if i got into caltech rd i’d be mortified
THANK U LOL
I know one guy who did cal tech REA
like cry on the floor for weeks it would pummel me
Got deferred
W
i only know one friend who did rea
not famn
she got rejected
idk what famn is
she was cracked
yeah um idk 😭
Like HYPS
it doesn’t provide a boost idk?
so i didn’t do it
i was going to do it and i should’ve to just get it out of the way
and a lot easier to get into cool research
pasadena is beautiful
i wish i could rewrite my essays
That’s why
i feel like i threw
the essays are notoriously hard
like
i wasn’t going to apply but forced myself to
i’m glad i applied
i didnt do NYU
bc i was too tired after doing cooper union
and other things due 1/5
actually didnt end up doing MIT
i was like
im gonna ger rejected either way
and was burnt out
this but stanford
i sacrificed stanford for mit
has anyone here gotten an ao interview
“harvard man”
idk what any of them mean
nah, its Stanford>MIT>Harvard
👎
lets agree to disagree
if perchance one had a second ao interview and thought it didn’t go so hot, how fucked would they perchance be
Depends on wym by not so hot
If u actually did really bad or something, probably a rejection
If it was mid, u probably still have a chance
Then again im not an AO so thats just my guess
"After an alumni interview is conducted, when the AO is reviewing a file and believes that an interview with the candidate could answer some questions and/or bring flavor to the file, the AO can reach out to the candidate for an interview."
very few applicants get this interview which means a majority of those accepted don't get these interviews. It's nothing really special, just like double checking stuff.
I did reading on it so
but if u like. did something weird during the interview i would.
be concerned LOL
ok it wasn’t rly that bad
i just wasn’t like
super good yk
i feel like everyone has these awesome stories of rly connecting w their ao
Speaking of @tropic yoke did u have ur interview?
but i was a bit awk🧍🏻♀️
😭 ur fine
i had this amazing interview and i got rejected from princeton
an interview is not the deciding factor
yahh
ao interview?
and just enjoy ur senior yearrrrr and eat all this good food around uuuu
it was alumni
but even with ao
its not a big deciding factr
its just to see if you can add more to ur file
😭
hit me w that letter alr
i would just relax and stuff
4 (ish) more weeks 😩
We’ve finally made it to march

i was so relaxed and joyous and happy and then i got the email from the ao and i’m back to a2c and away from the grass😔
Only 30 more days until our lives are permanently changed :D
i wonder who’s gonna make it with me
Me
it better not be some random person that barely messages in here
Trust
😭
maybe me, if my interviewer emails me in the next 4 hours
Harvard wants me trust 🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱
:( i just wanna do the harvard berklee program
you fall less in love with the school after you are admitted
or maybe it’s just me
like i don’t even care this point
I just want my portal to show some dudes throwing leaves pls
I wanted a more exciting college app season
💀 i think after my rejection from ea, i just have completed lowered my standards.. i just wanna go to college man
REAL
i wanna. go grocery shopping on my own
so i can finally pick my own snacks
away from my asian mothers decisions
I WANT CHIPS.
Istfg lmao
lmao this is so real
i just want lays chips..
i just want to do something new
pelu you got a yale likely right
yeah
wat i didn't even commit 😭
:)
thanks 🙂
jail affiliates aren’t allowed in here
i can't even commit
didn't u apply to yale
how come
official decisions come back in the 30th

i have many reasons for wishing to attend
but the most of all
is because of my hero
john fitzgerald kennedy
for his father also attended
and thus I will continue the legacy of their legacy?
<3 harvard please take me ill be a good i promise
simp :)))))
live laugh love harvard university <3 :))
TYSM
i thought ppl who had an ao interview were admitted at like 40% or something
😭 ao interviews are rare.. so if you do get one I would assume the ao would advocate for you more if you did well.
if that percentage is true
it was in the lawsuit i think
i dont think it adds much weight
people still get rejected even with an ao interview
i dont think it means much tbh
but i would take it as a sign to add something to ur app
just checked the lawsuit
its not a thing i dont think
its just cuz those who receive a staff interview are among the more competitive applicants
thus making the 52%
so if you get an ao interview, you are a competitive applicant and ur interview can make or break ur acceptance 🧍♀️ oof.
How did y'all send the admission updates?
LIke just put it into a word document or something?
Yep
then upload in portal
@humble stirrup have u done it?
what is LOCI?
ohhhh letter of continued interest nvm I just figured out
I don't know if early march is too late for it but anyway final pitch
i submitted most of my updates in early feb
aside from loci
sometimes people forget that correlation does not equal causation
an ao interview may mean that they're sus about some things and just need clarification
neitehr am i
reallly?
they’re still considering you heavily if they give you one
well yeah, that's what I mean by correlation
you don't get in because of the ao interview
you were already on their radar for admission which is why they interview you
yk?
ye
i got a likely ||to get rejected||
that got me in the first half ngl
LMAOOOO
And Yale
and cornell
mood
integrity issues
It was an AO interview and they had a few questions about the Ecs that I had. She was asking specifics and just overall wanted to know more. Pretty similar to a normal interview execpt for the fact that most of the questions were directly related to my application
Day 11 no harvard likely
im genuinly curious if they've sent likeies alr
from what ive heard its mostly just been AO interviews
huh
they typically don’t send likelies
Nice
Ugh gotta love Vandy
My fellow bassist received a likely from Harvard last year
But that was like mid-March
for music?
and he was screaming like heck
i’d assume they only really send likelies for people they want for music/athletics
Nope I forgot what concentration he put in his application
Nope he play really shit bass ain't no way Harvard wants him to play bass in their jazz band
but tbh their jazz band is pretty shit
^
he was in an American high school just like me
I was the conductor of the band so I know a lil bit abt his college app
He was a serious programmer and developed a sick ass AI software for people to learn English vocabs
Then he sold his idea to a Chinese company and earned 8k from it
so I guess pretty cracked
I would kill to get a likely istg
I just got. most likely to end up in the principal’s office
🗿
for my fucking superlative
people are so funny
I got a likely to get no bitches
my friends got “most likely to succeed, most studious, etc”
people just fucking hate me
LMFAO
I agree
i haven’t been in that man’s office once
that's taking the definition of A + student to the next level
ha I know someone who bought cryptos and earned 1M eventually
he applied to Wharton and get deferred lmao
oof
idk probably the AOs are just jealous about his success
lmao so tru, they must be like " How is this kid making more than me "
lmao yah
He made a post on the Chinese version of Quora and got like 12k upvotes
my man that was crazy
lmao wtf was i even typing
Luck doesn't qualify you for wharton 💀
yes das rly tru
“Have you heard of it? It was called Duolingo, or something like that…”
dude honestly these schools don’t really see that as much
the stereotype of the kid selling NFTs really ruins the idea of a good EC
even though trading crypto is such a smart idea
Na man it's kinda different, Duolingo is totally self-paced and their learning system sucks
i get why the chinese company wanted to buy it. all the asian parents. going ‘fuck learning at your own pace’ would totally buy into it
it would go ham esp w india
my dad HATES all the courses that are self paced
Yee but it's been proved that his method is actually better
Anyway screw CS it's not my thing
😳
i got most likely to succeed and best smile
😞 no need to flex that ur a walking W
you’ll break out of the cycle very soon, trust
mad scared rn
staying after to do a speaking sample in preparation for my test tmr
@earnest cloud my teacher said i’m guaranteed a 5 tomorrow but could raise it to a 6+ if i made a few changes 😳
me when i pass french?
aye yes you are gonna do amazing 
i didn’t know this
🙏 hopefully breaking out of my L streak for college apps

just with exams and ppl and stuff
been on the grind for no reward
hopefully soon
so true
For real! I'm proud of you though keep it up
dude ALL my IAs are due rn#
and it’s that constant thing of like ‘how do i make it better’
INSANE
Congrats and good luck!!
Also must continue tbe legacy day 12 no harvard likely
yale
The regional AO emailed my counselor to ask for the final IB grades is that good
Even though he'll see I dropped 3 points 
yeah a promising sign for sure
counselors asking for grades and more information than the common app provides is never ba
Stanford >>>
I’m biased asf
🤩
thas crazy dude
Stanford campus is sm better
im visitng for the first time next wseek
I havent visited
But from what ive seen from pictures its just so much nicer
Harvard is so mid ngl
I thought that it was cool that it felt like a small town in a big city, but besides that, I felt like it was so unremarkable that I might find it in the middle of nowhere, Kentucky while driving to meet my distant uncle.
I dislike California
I meant the campus 😭😭
Why
Stanford campus is so nice
It seems like new
Compared to how ancient harvard seems
True
po*litical reasons i don't think it's appropriate to discuss in this server...
what
but yes I do agree with this, Harvard dorm sucks ass
didn't know there isn't a place about politics in America
na na man it's not
it's more like a liberal vs. conservative values argument
but anyway I know Harvard is pretty liberal too...
UCHI WOOOOOO
FUCK LIBERALSSS
what are you guys on about
is it bad that political climate doesnt play any factor in deciding at a college to me 💀
no
you can find pretty much any intellectual political view on any campus
in some capacity
no i meant as in some people are avoiding red states and what not
man screw that school of nerds
It's gonna be hell for pre med kids like me
if it doesn't matter to you then it doesn't matter to you, you don't have to care too much
yea it's really up to you
should it play a role doe
up to you
I mean bro if u care a lot about politics like I do, then it matters
But if politics for u is like mama bwoi ima go to sleep, then it doesn't
how much do you want ppl around you that believe in the same stuff you do? how much do you want ppl that disagree w u?
if you care about those two qustions
then u should consider
if you don't care, or aren't even interested in anything politics, it doesn't matter
i never really got into the whole politics thing, what exactly do the two sides stand for?
that is far too complex to explain and anyone that explains it to you will be biased towards their side
like as what do you mean by "stuff"
agreed
political issues
if you don't even know what the two sides stand for, i don't think you should factor this into your decision
im also 17 yayyy!
ayo









