Harvard. The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I fe (2022-2023)

[kind elk]

you should be excited instead

28 minutes

[bronze spire]

AHH

[merry meadow]

crap caught in 4k

[turbid cypress]

HARVARD 15TH SO TRUE

[merry meadow]

🤩

[turbid cypress]

mit stanford and berk are not valid

thats just forbes being tech elitist

WHICH MEANS PRINCETON AT NUMBER ONE ONCE AGAIN

[vague ice]

I'm so over it

[kind elk]

It’s going to be alright, no matter the decision

[vague ice]

Yeah

[bronze spire]

Luck do i get in stanny yes or no

[vague ice]

Still sad though

[bronze spire]

If u say no i will end you

[kind elk]

No

[bronze spire]

FUCK

[kind elk]

I would love it if you prove me wrong though

[bronze spire]

I prolly wont

[kind elk]

[merry meadow]

why would u wana go to a school where 90% of its students wana sell their soul to cs

[bronze spire]

Bc i would do the same???

[kind elk]

Are you implying that Stan > Penn?!

I’m reporting you to AOs and penn discord server mods rn

gg, you’re done

[bronze spire]

Stanford gives me more options bc its cracked at everything

Like i can change major and still be in a very strong program

Upenn is same but kinda harder

[kind elk]

I was right, right?

[wild shore]

^ it's okay if not because it's called stanmid for a reason

i actually agree w u on this one

[bronze spire]

Yea 😔

Wharton it is 🥳

[kind elk]

@mossy flume https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/apply/visiting-undergraduate-students

Have you seen this?

[kind elk]

actually, im not sure if you qualify for this nvm

"If you are currently enrolled full-time at an accredited college or university you may apply to spend one or two semesters studying at Harvard College. This program is not for High School Graduates who wish to study at Harvard for a Gap Year."

They give no financial aid or housing either LOL rip

[next pendant]

https://ask.usc.edu/app/answers/detail/a_id/875/~/can-i-appeal-the-admission-decision-on-my-undergraduate-application%3F this too might be important to read, false hope can be dangerous

[mossy flume]

i know im applying !!

[next pendant]

U have to be an undergrad already to apply

Bc you need the approval of dean

[bronze spire]

No financial aid no housing wtf

[next pendant]

It’s a cash grab program lol

Just for the Harvard experience

[bronze spire]

Makes sense

But idk why harvard would need a cash grab program

I feel like 50 billion should be enough lmao

[next pendant]

Money is money lol

You can use your reputation to make money on it

Hence those paid EdX courses from HMS, Stanford, MIT

No one’s gonna do Ducktown Community College EdX

[kind elk]

I don’t think it’s for hs grads like vex said

you’d have to wait till you’re in uni

but idt it’s worth it cause no aid or housing and you only get to go for a semester

money grab program lol

[mossy flume]

i emailed the deis registrar

[next pendant]

How will you afford it?

Also you have to be enrolled full time to be applying

Two of the letters must come from faculty at your university

[mossy flume]

thats so smelly

its so over

[next pendant]

Harvard isn’t the end of the world

[mossy flume]

have fun at harvard then

[median jolt]

Yalls mascot is a fucking dead dude

[next pendant]

how many of your mascots are dead again?

[median jolt]

once they die they're not mascots 💯

[wild shore]

harvard summer school for adults ☹️

[next pendant]

ong just wait for the summer

The orange lanyards ugly

The summer school high schoolers are SO obnoxious

[next pendant]

Luck mentioned this earlier but it’s really important to move on. The more time you spend digging a deeper hole, the harder it is to get out. There’s no point in comparing yourself to others or wishing you were them; life is still going to keep moving—with or without you. We get you’re frustrated, and that’s normal, but don’t take it out on others. USC is stingy with aid too, have you considered what would happen after a slim chance of a successful appeal?(Their website does say they rarely overturn decisions) You seem to be doomspiraling which can severely impair what you’re able to do right now. Had you applied to VUS, they’d tell you that you aren’t eligible which would throw you even deeper into the spiral. It’s okay to take a break and just get away from college related environments. The cycle is over, just take time to decompress after several months of applications.

[bronze spire]

Just go to harvard for grad school 👨‍🎓👨‍🎓

[wild shore]

i fully agree. focus on your goals in life rather than a school name- and college is just a stepping stone to greater things, not the end result

and if it is someone’s “final result”, they’re on track to peaking in college at the ripe age of 21 lmao

which is honestly embarrassing

[next pendant]

Yeah some people do really peak in HS and then down hill in college

Others in college and work some crusty 9-5 office job unfulfilled

[kind elk]

Agreed! I know we’re probably not in a position to say this, but harvard isn’t the end of the world. Most of us, including you, can be great literally anywhere fuyu

[next pendant]

Stanford was my dream school lmao

Went for the first time in college last summer and decided that rejection was one of the best things that could’ve happened

[bronze spire]

:o why?

[next pendant]

The campus is cute but I can’t bike

The heat is awful

actually some of campus is cute

[bronze spire]

I really liked stanny they were my top choice

[next pendant]

The bubble is wayyy to bubbly

I thought it would be closer to an actual city

[wild shore]

stanmid

t3ch bros

[next pendant]

Administration kinda sucks

[bronze spire]

Yea all my homies hate stanford ‼️‼️

[wild shore]

WHY IS T*CH BROS CENSORED

[bronze spire]

Vex have u been to upeen

[next pendant]

Yeah tach bros suck

my friends at Stanford now literally chronically network at every event

[kind elk]

01110100 01100101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01100010 01110010 01101111 01110011 😎

[next pendant]

I could not deal w that

[next pendant]

no

[bronze spire]

Dang i was gonna ask ur thoughts

[next pendant]

UPenn wasn’t my style 😭😭

[bronze spire]

I got into wharton with like basically no research lol

[kind elk]

my cousin goes to penn

not wharton tho

[bronze spire]

Do they like it

[kind elk]

Yeah, he loves it

[next pendant]

Be sure u like a school before committing

[kind elk]

he’s doing pr33m3d

[bronze spire]

Yea im going to quakers day

[next pendant]

I know people who regret going to schools because they applied bc of the name

[rare sparrow]

smh

[next pendant]

But they hate their fit

Or well, lack of fit

[bronze spire]

I mean so far i like what ive seen of penn

[next pendant]

ur mental health is more important than a school’s ranking

[bronze spire]

Only problem is i have no idea how the classes and stuff are

[next pendant]

you find out the hard way at some point lol

[next pendant]

Are you FLI?

[bronze spire]

Yes

[next pendant]

there’s a couple of people at upenn in the FLI server

I’m sure they’d be willing to answer and provide a better take

class experience isn’t the same for everyone

[bronze spire]

Oh yeah im in there and they let me know im free to dm with questions

[next pendant]

Yeah def ask stuff

[bronze spire]

Only problem is i dont think any of them are wharton kids 😭

[next pendant]

I think i know a Wharton kid

[bronze spire]

Like irl or on discord?

[kind elk]

Join the Penn subreddit

[next pendant]

check pings

[bronze spire]

Just saw it, thank you!!

[foggy schooner]

I went there this year. I met some very cool people. Some were obnoxious , yep.

My roommate was the "average" guy from r\Chance me

[next pendant]

Just money grab program too

[foggy schooner]

True. I wanted to use this time wisely. Got 2 recs etc, but didn’t help. At least I was able to experience it😄

[wild shore]

even before i got in this made me 💀💀💀

[foggy schooner]

Ahahhaa. I have met some people who thought this was in any way competitive…. It was funny.

[thorn niche]

That’s so much merch 😭

[wild shore]

the “day in a life as a harvard student” for summer school is crazy

[wild shore]

more than my tuition

[thorn niche]

LMAO NAH

I looked her up

Look at her insta bio 💀

[wild shore]

NAHHH

she also posted her entire address i don’t think she ever took it down 😭😭

[final turtle]

no way

she can’t be real

[bronze spire]

@kind elk

Right here??

[kind elk]

Oh

Thanks

[sonic oyster]

I don't even understand why people do these programs if they don't get significant financial aid. Taking some college classes at their community or state college during the summer would be a far more effective use of money.

[next pendant]

because some people want the harvard experience

for flex purposes

they think its a validating experience

the summer school one people frequently do bc they can a) afford it and b) think they look better to harvard admisisons w it

will note that some of the summer school sessions like for orgo do give u credit and premeds tend to do that

[sonic oyster]

It's kind of sad that some of these top colleges are taking advantage of this, with so many of them tying their names to often worthless summer programs.

Not commenting on the orgo one as I know nothing about it, but often when these Ivy league summer classes(for high schoolers) do give credit, it often isn't even real college credit.

[next pendant]

i mean can you blame them

the summer school stuff for high schoolers i dont think so

im not sure of the specifics but yeah

most schools dont give "good" credit

i know stanford olx? or whatever its called

[sonic oyster]

Yeah, its often in the form of 'continuing studies credit'

[next pendant]

they dont even take their own credit LAWL

[sonic oyster]

Are you referring to https:// ulo. stanford.edu

[next pendant]

yup

[next pendant]

@sonic oyster did you send a message

I got a notif

[final turtle]

ok so in defense of these summer programs

i did a columbia online course thing in a physics subject i was really interested in over the summer

and i formed a connection afterwards with the my instructor and did an independent study course with him over the course of a year and got a great rec letter from him

but thats a very specific case

[sonic oyster]

I don’t think so?

[foggy schooner]

Why I did it:

1. Get credit
2. Get recommendations
3. Cool experience

It didn’t help me in the end, but I don’t regret doing it anyway.

[next pendant]

Most people get vague recommendations lol

There’s not much a professor can say about a college student from a 6 week program

[foggy schooner]

I actually developed a quite close connection with the professor. Stayed after class etc. We even had lunch a few times to tougher.

But yep, 7 weeks is definitely not enough.

I would say the recs helped me a bit, but lack of SAT, and absolutely horrendous situation in my country definitely made my chances go to 0.

[serene lion]

a little insane but i also feel bad? lol

[wild shore]

yeah, i can imagine the experience being super fun

i think it's also valid to go if you're studying something super specific that you wouldn't be able to learn in depth in a lot of other places

like one time i snuck out and met a kid studying classics at the harv summer choir performance and he said they were free to travel around boston whenever which sounds amazing (we were prisoners to next house 💔 )

[foggy schooner]

One of my best friends from summer school studied Calc 2 💀

And some other math course

[kind elk]

Isn’t calc 2 just ap calc 💀

[bronze spire]

Calc bc i think

[kind elk]

Can’t imagine paying thousands of dollars for harvard summer school just to take calc bc

It’s funny because my dad actually wanted me to apply for Harvard summer school during spring of my junior year because he thought it would increase my chances of getting in

I told him it’s a scam program and he didn’t believe me 💀

Thankfully my sister finally convinced him that it’s useless for admissions

He also wanted to donate $5 to Harvard because he said it’s going to look good for me lmao

My dad is definitely an interesting character

[serene lion]

random as hell but i'm pretty sure it has a decent impact

my sister is '14 and she has like 4 friends whose siblings got in after they graduated

and then the same applies for a bunch of other privates

i think it's because they can still create "allegiance" without having to disclose anything

[kind elk]

oh fr?

[serene lion]

mhm

[kind elk]

mine is a sophomore rn, she didn’t graduate

[serene lion]

i think it's still counted if they're in school 🤷

[kind elk]

Oh, that’s cool

[serene lion]

tbh - i think it's just used as a tipping factor

like to just distinguish already qualified applicants

[bronze spire]

Luck did u join the penn zoom meeting thingy

[kind elk]

No

[bronze spire]

It would have convinced you to go penn

[kind elk]

No, it wouldn’t

I hate penn

[serene lion]

LMFAO

[bronze spire]

Yea the video was sick

Ur just delusional

[serene lion]

Come on bro

[kind elk]

[kind elk]

Yeah, I’m not complaining lol

[serene lion]

No not at all

but it's definitely interesting

my friend at Stanford sent me a poll in their uhhh i forgot what it's called

but it's like the college reddit ripoff thingy

[kind elk]

side chat

[serene lion]

117/374 accepted siblings? kind of crazy honestly

[kind elk]

do you want to weigh in on this @winter smelt

[runic sleet]

Some part of that has to be that families who can get one kid accepted to Harvard can get the other kid accepted to Harvard

[serene lion]

for sure

[foggy schooner]

I have no clue (I am int), but it doesn’t meter. Still extremely stupid.

I took it online for like 1/14 of the price

[winter smelt]

I mean huge selection effects

[serene lion]

the siblings help out with apps too

[indigo oxide]

wait, do you know if this is actually possible

to take orgo over the summer (through hss) and have it count towards harvard undergrad

[next pendant]

Do you go to Harvard? @indigo oxide

[indigo oxide]

class of 27

ignore my nickname lol

[next pendant]

Bruh wait did you take gen chem

[indigo oxide]

in high school?

i took ap chem

or at hss? i haven’t ever taken hss courses

@next pendant

[next pendant]

@indigo oxide did you get a 5

[indigo oxide]

yeah

[next pendant]

@indigo oxide I think you can

But like there’s no point to rushing through college lol

Just take it while you’re there

No reason to pay extra

[indigo oxide]

that makes sense

are you premed?

i’ve sometimes received the advice to take orgo over the summer though (unsure why)

[next pendant]

Yes

Summer orgo has lab

[timid whale]

me too i think it def was a pre big impact for me

[fathom blaze]

My sis got waitlisted at Harvard, so not sure what makes sibling legacy hit or not

[kind elk]

I honestly think it’s more of an icing on the cake type of thing

My sister told me a lot of her friends’ siblings got rejected or waitlisted as well

but then again your sister was admitted at Yale happy2help so she probably was qualified enough to be admitted at Harvard as well

I’ve no idea lol 🤷‍♂️

[foggy schooner]

I would say that they don’t care much about legacies if they don’t donate.

If they would care about every legacy the class would have had like 50% of them.

[kind elk]

My parents didn’t even go to HS and we’re not donors at all

[foggy schooner]

Yep, it just means that you are extremely qualified like other students.

Legacy is bs

[kind elk]

But I think you’re right for general legacy admits

[foggy schooner]

Only helps if you donate

[foggy schooner]

Can I dm you? I have a question.

[kind elk]

Sure

[winter smelt]

mine too

[sonic oyster]

Does anyone have advice on how to write a LOCI?

[serene lion]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/ts7m25/waitlisted_how_to_write_a_loci_by_a_former/

@sonic oyster

helped me to write my deferral LOCI

[sonic oyster]

Thank you. If I stupidly submitted an update a day before decisions were released, I can’t mention those same achievements in my LOCI, correct? Will they even look at or consider that information?

[serene lion]

You should include that information again in the LOCI - it doesn't need to be too long unless that's what it was

Unlikely that they read it on the first time you sent it

[kind elk]

^ given the low wl->accept rate, I’d still just put it again to make sure they saw it lol

[bronze spire]

https://www.businessinsider.com/most-attractive-ivy-league-schools-2016-10

@kind elk 🤭🤭

[final turtle]

penn supremacy

[bronze spire]

Tell em brick 🗣️🗣️

[kind elk]

Fake

I can confirm

[foggy schooner]

Harvard is #8

Bruh

Fake news

[bronze spire]

Seems right to me

[foggy schooner]

Sadly I will never get to find out

[pearl briar]

extremely slim

[bronze spire]

Basically nonexistent

[neon sail]

any idea how bad grades have to be to get rescinded 😭🙏🏻

[bronze spire]

Prolly wont get rescinded

Unlezs your failing

Multiple classes

[modern halo]

out of curiosity, how important was the optional essay? essential?

[bronze spire]

Yes

[modern halo]

okay - thank you :)

[kind elk]

No official data on this but very important

[winter smelt]

don't get C's, you should be ok

[bronze spire]

What about C+’s

[winter smelt]

do your best to pull up

it might be fine but I wouldn't risk it

[vague ice]

Does anyone know how many are on the waitlist

Or what the average number is

@ me so I see it

[shrewd token]

Wait I seen ppl say like Harvard ssp or summer program is not worth it

Would y’all recommend it or no

[kind elk]

Not worth it imo, just a money grab

They don’t release that info but some people on reddit have speculated that they waitlist ~1500 people or so @vague ice

We do know the # of students admitted from the waitlist for the past 4 years tho

2024: 34
2025: 0
2026: 36
2027: ?

[foggy schooner]

Depends on what your situation is. As someone who has actually experienced it, I can say it was fun.

But you would be better off if you try to get in some competitive summer program.

I would say it doesn’t help more than any other “money grab program”. As @kind elk mentioned.

[kind elk]

Yeah, it’s a good experience but it doesn’t help much much/at all with admissions

[shrewd token]

Yeah i want to do it bc of the networking, resources and espeitnece

[shrewd token]

For fin aid can it also cover full cost or only a portion

[foggy schooner]

The guy I met there went with almost full aid.

I don’t remember though

[foggy schooner]

Ye, it is a weird think to say, but they don’t care about it so much that they even ghost people who need a Visa to come. Ha.

It was a horrendous experience

If you are int avoid it!

Or you will spend months calling and talking to NPCs

[wheat wraith]

I wonder what they really care abt in the admission lol

[foggy schooner]

Good question

I mean some program like RSI will give a big +

[wheat wraith]

My friend and I got an IMO silver but still got rejected so it is interesting that other stuffs are valued way more hmm

I just feel bad for him he got rejected from everywhere he applied to in US

[foggy schooner]

I have a few people I know with stellar applications. However, this year 0 people got in from my country.

[wheat wraith]

dayumn dude

where are u from

[foggy schooner]

Guess

You have 3 tries

[wheat wraith]

Europe?

[foggy schooner]

This was a hint up there

[foggy schooner]

This is not a country 💀 (jk)

[wheat wraith]

im just narrowing it down bhahah

[foggy schooner]

IK Hah

I mean

Partly from Europe

[wheat wraith]

Turkey

[foggy schooner]

No

[foggy schooner]

Hint

Read it again

[wheat wraith]

so it is a small country?

hmm

[foggy schooner]

No

The other way around

[wheat wraith]

russia then

[foggy schooner]

Ahahha

Correct

Well

[wheat wraith]

dayumn

[foggy schooner]

I refuse believing in political stuff

[wheat wraith]

we are neighbors bhaha

[foggy schooner]

Where are u from?

[wheat wraith]

Mongolia

[foggy schooner]

No way

That is so cool

I rly want to go there one day

[wheat wraith]

cool

[foggy schooner]

To see this guy

[wheat wraith]

just dont visit here during winter

[wheat wraith]

eyo who that

[foggy schooner]

What?

You don’t know this cat?

[wheat wraith]

did u get into any US uni btw?

[wheat wraith]

no...

[foggy schooner]

Ye. A lot

[wheat wraith]

I see

[foggy schooner]

Committed to UCLA

[wheat wraith]

ooh nice

[foggy schooner]

Bro what

No way

This is like

The Mongolian cat

[wheat wraith]

whahhaha

never heard of him

[foggy schooner]

Manul

This is like the first thing anyone would imagine if you say “Mongolia”.

At least all my friends will

Whatever. Ha.

[wheat wraith]

dayumn

[wheat wraith]

im not great with real life knowledge haha

[foggy schooner]

):

[wheat wraith]

I guess I learned a new thing about my country from a student from a different country than mine

[foggy schooner]

I know a few more

Like you have a crazy fish

Called Taimen

Idk if you have heard about it

[wheat wraith]

dayumn

nope

first time hearing it

[foggy schooner]

Ahahah

Why 😫

[wheat wraith]

no idea

[winter smelt]

depends on the money--I think they have financial aid available but idk how generous it is. I think there are plenty of better (and certainly cheaper) alternatives

[shrewd token]

Do u know any?

[coarse panther]

yo, do you guys know if harvard sends T-shirts? I was able to find places to put T-shirt sizes for other schools but I dont recall for Harvard

[kind elk]

Yes, you should have gotten an email from the COOP a day or so after decisions came out

join the Harvard 2027 server if you were admitted

I can DM you the link

[coarse panther]

ok pls

[coarse panther]

thank you

[crimson briar]

harvard 27s dm me <3 i want more friends

[elder comet]

can you DM me the link too

[kind elk]

I gotchu

[kind elk]

I would but there’s a chance you pick Stanford so errrr idk /s

[crimson briar]

LMAOO

dw i'm leaning towards harvard 💅💓

if anybody wants to be added to the instagram gc

lmk

there's also one for yale harvard cross admits

[elder comet]

thats so niche what 😭

[crimson briar]

oh it's bc the admit weeks overlap 😭

so we were discussing how to get from one to the other

together

[elder comet]

ohh that makes sense then

could you add me to it?

[crimson briar]

yea sure

dm ur ig

[kindred mortar]

omgg there’s an Instagram gc??? can u add me to ittt

[crimson briar]

yepp!! send ur @ in dms

[next current]

yoo can you send me it too?

[kind elk]

Yep!

[upbeat sandal]

All RD admits, please PM me and I can share a Google Sheet to add your info and connect with fellow admits!

[next pendant]

they run small imo too

wish someone told me

[high steeple]

Hey I was put onto the Harvard waitlist and I was wondering if anyone had any advice for writing a LOCI? I'm not sure where to start...
Sorry if I'm in the wrong channel, I just joined the a2c discord

[stuck pumice]

For those who got into Harvard, has anyone gotten an email from an admission officer? I received an email from an admission officer who had read my application congratulating me on my acceptance and to reach out if I have questions

I was wondering whether I need to reply back to this email or whether it's automated- sent to every admit

[kind elk]

It’s sent to every admit, I don’t think you need to reply

also @stuck pumice

make up your mind

🙄

pick Harvard

[stuck pumice]

Oh lmao

It's titled this right: "Congratulations on your admission to Harvard College!"

[kind elk]

Lemme check

[stuck pumice]

I will decide after visting CPW and Visitas 😭 it's hard

[kind elk]

No, mine says: Congratulations from your Harvard Admissions Officer!

[stuck pumice]

Oh, so it's personal?

[kind elk]

The first line of the email is this

[stuck pumice]

Is the content the same?

Congratulations on your admission to Harvard College! As one of the admissions officers who read your application, I particularly enjoyed learning about how you supported your family and community in various ways! Our admissions committee thinks you would be a terrific addition to the Harvard community, and we hope you will join us this fall.

In the next month, you will be able to connect with other admitted students and participate in programming to learn more about life at Harvard. There will be plenty of engaging content on the admitted students’ website to help you envision life as a Harvard student! We also encourage you to continue reading student stories as our current undergraduates share details about their Harvard experiences and alumni profiles as alumni share their various pathways after graduation.

We hope you can join us on campus for our admitted student weekend, Visitas, April 23-24. If your schedule doesn't allow you to attend, we will have great live and recorded content available on Crimson Connect beginning in mid-April to help you learn about Harvard resources and support and answer any questions you have.

Do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. If you wish to speak to me, I would be happy to set up a phone or Zoom call with you over the next few weeks.

Now reading the email gain, it sounds like it's automated

[kind elk]

ya, I have the same thing

[stuck pumice]

Ah ok, you didn't respond right?

[kind elk]

Nope

[stuck pumice]

Cool Cool, ty

Are u going to visitas?

[kind elk]

Probably

[kind elk]

np and congrats

hope you end up making the right decision /s

[stuck pumice]

ty!

bro 😭

[stuck pumice]

What major did u apply as?

I did CS and math

[kind elk]

Engineering

[stuck pumice]

interesting

did you apply to stanny or mit?

[kind elk]

No, but I should have

[stuck pumice]

was harvard your first choice then?

[kind elk]

It was MIT all throughout HS, but then I did REA to Harvard

[stuck pumice]

👍

complete opposite for me

It was harvard all throughout HS, but then I decided to do MIT EA after a sumemr program experience

[kind elk]

mostec changes people

[stuck pumice]

damn

you in the server too?

[kind elk]

Yes

[stuck pumice]

wait

did you do mostec?

[kind elk]

No

I’m just in the server still

idk why

[stuck pumice]

did u apply?

[kind elk]

I did but I was rejected

[stuck pumice]

😢

doesn't matter really tho

u still at harvard

[kind elk]

Yeah lol

[next pendant]

@kind elk @stuck pumice when I applied i got a personal one

I think it depends on the ao and your app

[kind elk]

Yeah, I know some people get handwritten notes by their AO

[stuck pumice]

I don't think mine was a personal note, it doesn't sound like one

[coarse panther]

mine had a sentence mentioning a specific involvement

[median jolt]

shame if u got into yale u would have got a personal note

[kind elk]

Same, the rest was basically a copy paste though

[coarse panther]

i got into yale and im still waiting on that 😞

can you guys log into gmail through your college.harvard.edu?

or do we only have access when we matriculate

[kind elk]

Nope

I think that’s only possible once the year starts

[trim meteor]

which r u choosing

[coarse panther]

im not sure yet lololol

[kind elk]

hope you make the right choice and pick harvard /s

yale is literally discount harvard

[coarse panther]

would u rather H S or P lol

[kind elk]

What’s your major

[coarse panther]

applied math + statistics

[kind elk]

I would take harvard or pton

[coarse panther]

why not s

[kind elk]

o I didn’t see Stanford

Thought it said yale

uhh, I think either of them are fine tbh

so it’s gonna come down to personal preference

[trim meteor]

definitely stanford i’m bias

[kind elk]

I’d still take harvard though perosnally

[trim meteor]

i think they should take Y S P so i can take harvard spot🥰

[kind elk]

😟

I hope you don’t get off the waitlist just because you said that /s

@coarse panther

[coarse panther]

bruhh nice

but stanford has good weather

lol

[kind elk]

[coarse panther]

do u guys know like

if harvards housing is good

[kind elk]

I hate Stanford weather

[coarse panther]

really why

[kind elk]

uh, im a prefrosh so idk

[kind elk]

Too hot for me

[coarse panther]

are rats actually a problem

[kind elk]

I like cold weather

No

[coarse panther]

i am from florida LOL

so stanford is literally colder than here

but yeah hoenstly i wouldnt mind trying out snow

[kind elk]

You could ask about the rat thing in Harvard community hub

But I don’t think rats are a problem

[coarse panther]

ok cool

[trim meteor]

LMAOO???

stanford was my dream school that’s why i recommended

the weather is so nice and bay area>

[kind elk]

See, now I no longer trust you when you promote any other school

[serene lion]

only H or S

[coarse panther]

y not princeton

[serene lion]

literally no reason besides feeling LOL

what major are you again?

[winter smelt]

come to harvard 😌

also lmk if you have questions

[coarse panther]

applied mathematics

btw do you guys know if princeton allows for concurrent masters/ getting masters during undergrad years

i know stanford and harvard has that opportunity

[winter smelt]

not to my knowledge

stanford's is a bit more flexible because you can take a 5th year (you cannot at harvard) but you will pay for that 5th year out of pocket

at harvard you remain on undergrad aid for all 4 years even with the masters

idk how it works at stanford since there I think they formally decouple the grad and undergrad degrees

[sonic oyster]

Will Harvard potentially start pulling from the waitlist before May 1st or do they wait until then to re-examine any applications?

[bronze spire]

Prolly wait

[kind elk]

^

[bronze spire]

Ive heard of ppl getting off it in like late summer

[pale walrus]

@kind elk could you please dm me the harvard’27 server link and @crimson briar can i send you my ig on dm to join that group

[kind elk]

https://college.harvard.edu/admitted-students-login

press connect with your class and make a crimson connect account

co2027 discord link is there

[rare scroll]

I just got into the part of Gilmore girls where ||Paris didn’t get into Harvard||

[bronze spire]

Thanks for the spoilers

[rare scroll]

I literally blacked it out and prefaced the spoiler by saying what tv show it was from 😭

if that’s not enough of a deterrent then

[bronze spire]

Die

[rare scroll]

Considering the fact that on April third you made a comment alluding to the fact ||that Rory gilmore goes to YALE and indeed not Harvard|| I can deduce that you already got to that part and thus are unnecessarily and misleadingly accusing me of spoiling something to you

I rest my case

[bronze spire]

Nerd i only knew that because of other spoilers

Every harvard admit is a mega nerd smh @kind elk

[kind elk]

why do you still come to this thread

noob

[bronze spire]

Because you guys are easy pickings

[drifting burrow]

was this in the email or your actual congrats package

i got a few personalized lines in the congrats email but idk if thats standard

[coarse panther]

the congrats email from my ao that also mentioned about visitas

[drifting burrow]

ok gotcha same

[crimson briar]

yea sure dm me!! :)

[next current]

they said theyre opening access around mid april bc all official communication will be through there, so maybe in a week or two

[kind elk]

^ You can access it started May 5th I’m pretty sure

They probably wouldn’t give access before commitment day

[next current]

you need to commit to set up an email, so i dont think that would impact it

but that also makes sense

so idk

[kind elk]

I’m pretty sure you can set up/claim an email prior to committing (or at least I was able to), you just can’t add that email to your gmail or communicate through it yet

[coarse panther]

yeah i made mine without committing

[next pendant]

everyone gets an email prior to committing

it's just not functional

it's just an identifier

its also… uhh "permanent" 😭

if you wind up enrolling at harvard at some point for something, that email is the one you have to use

[kind elk]

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/4/11/gsas-renamed-ken-griffin/

[winter smelt]

I think this is the 4th largest single donation in harvard history? (1-3 is $500m from zuck for kempner, $400m for the naming rights to SEAS, $350m for the naming rights to HSPH)

[bronze spire]

Im donating penn a cool billion just give me 20 years

[median jolt]

yale's largest was $250m iirc

in exchange for absolutely no naming rights

charles b johnson '54 for the new colleges

[kind elk]

Pretty sure Ken Griffin has a 15-16 year old in HS lol

[bronze spire]

Wonder if they’ll get accepted

[kind elk]

they definitely will

[violet hollow]

Can I be added too?

[wild shore]

wait is there a harvard mit cross admit group

i’ll make one if not bc we’ll end up in the same city anyways 😸

[crimson briar]

sure dm me

[shrewd token]

so ur telling me if i donate like 9 figures i can get my name for a uni

thats crazy

let me just buy the uni atp

[blazing trellis]

or you can just buy art museum naming rights to cover up an opioid crisis that you caused

[blazing trellis]

aka the sackler gambit

[flint stream]

Hartford college

[kind elk]

Howard, Harvey Mudd, and Hartford are all harvard impostors

[sonic oyster]

Is there a deadline for submitting the LOCI?

[bronze spire]

No but do it assp

[knotty bramble]

do you know when the waitlist movement generally is?

[kind elk]

No, but I’d assume it’s sometime after May 1st (commitment day)

They need to see how many people accepted their admission offer before taking people off the waitlist

[upbeat sandal]

My general understanding was that it's sometime around June...

But worth Googling or asking the admissions office @knotty bramble if you'd like

[sonic oyster]

Does anyone know who I should address my Harvard LOCI to?

[kind elk]

Harvard Admissions Committee or To whom it may concern

[thorn niche]

depends on how big the drop is, but they don't usually rescind unless it's a massive drop

and even then, they might review it and decide not to rescind anyway

I had a 44 pred and got a 41 and they didn't say anything

[thorn niche]

Ohh then as long as it’s a relatively good score it should be fine

Like maybe 36+

[bronze spire]

No school wants to rescind tbh

It just makes them look stupid

[upbeat sandal]

Unusual assertion

They'll do it if the student has an unjustified dip in performance, or, like the recent example, a gaggle of admitted students send inappropriate memes to a group chat

[bronze spire]

Even then that dip has to be prettyyyy big

[pale walrus]

okay perf i had a 44 pred too so now i know the bar's 41

[shrewd token]

💀

i would pay money to see u get rescind after getting a 41 😂

jk im not that mean but dont count on it

@thorn niche @pale walrus what class did yall take

i mean course/subject

[thorn niche]

Math AA HL, Eng Lit HL, Spanish Lit HL, CS HL, Econ and Phy SL

hbu?

[shrewd token]

Lang Lit English, Chem and History HL

Sl math aa physics and French b

[next pendant]

Are you an undergrad?

You have a master’s plus graduate role

Don’t do that lol

How do u expect people to answer your questions w inappropriate context

You’re an undergrad? or are you in hs

where are u transferring from

a cc or

if I’m not mistaken, financial aid generally covers fall and spring stuff

summer tends to be a lot harder

I’m p sure Harvard doesn’t have an early start program

Most top schools don’t

you kind of enter together w your fellow transfers/first years

You could do Harvard summer session but it’s not really a formal thing

or well it’s not considered part of transfer enrollment

You just take it and pay out of pocket

Wait are you admitted as a transfer

I’d honestly wait for that before figuring this out

For?

[next pendant]

I think it’s hard to speak bc Harvard’s transfer accepts very few transfers

A refund of 3K in Boston will be very difficult to live on

Wait question

Why do you have to take classes during the summer exactly

you have up to 600% usage

how much are you at

uhh

More like how many times have you gotten it

A fall spring academic year is 100 I think

Ahh got it

I’m just confused why you have to take classes

Harvard summer courses I don’t think offer financial aid and it’s a couple thousand

https://summer.harvard.edu/adult-college-students/

Enroll at the CC classes ?

wait so what does early start at Harvard have to do w this

ohh I see

Yeah so you can only start at Harvard in the fall

So your financial aid this summer won’t affect your Harvard stuff

That’s why I asked the % usage stuff

you can after you’re admitted

Ohhh I see what you mean

If you were at 400% usage or something

To a point where by the end of your undergrad years you run out of Pell grant

Wait I’m confused what you’d be asking

Tbf AOs aren’t in charge of that

It’s from the financial aid office

But they can’t answer questions fully if you haven’t been admitted and offered an award letter

They can only speculate and provide very vague answers in that case

[winter smelt]

harvard will as of this summer I believe

[next pendant]

they're transfer

not the undergrad one

[winter smelt]

let me try to find a link

[trim meteor]

hi! would it be a bad idea to mention a coffee chat i had with a current student in my loci? in replace of me visiting campus

she’s very prominent in the student body

[winter smelt]

doesn't seem like an inherently bad idea to me

[acoustic plaza]

is harvard cs good ?

[barren shell]

https://tenor.com/view/edp-i-mean-its-all-right-gif-26702511

[winter smelt]

it's a smaller department compared to a lot of peer schools that have massive CS departments (mit, stanford, etc) but expanding pretty quickly. so there's less research breadth than elsewhere. job placement wise, it's as good as anywhere else

[gaunt frost]

harvard worst boston school 🥱

[candid moss]

[upbeat sandal]

Anyone know where I can find the Q-guide

[kind elk]

You can google harvard q guide and it should come up

https://qreports.fas.harvard.edu/

[upbeat sandal]

Is it just me that finds it strange that Harvard would endorse a guide allowing students to trash professors in reviews?

[kind elk]

I don’t find it strange at all

I think the Q-guide is very helpful and letting the students "speak their mind" is more beneficial than having them be nice and hiding what they really feel. Plus, it (hopefully) encourages the profs to actually be good.

I’m pretty sure the Q-guide is filtered, anyway, so it only shows a subset of all the student responses. Harvard FAS gets the full list of responses.

**Evaluation results are made available to the instructional staff shortly after the course evaluation close date. A subset of course evaluation results are made available to anyone with a valid HUID. These include:

Aggregated summary of all numeric results (distribution, average, and median)
Verbatim student responses to “What would you like to tell future students about this course?”**

https://q.fas.harvard.edu

[next pendant]

Believe me, there’s stuff you wish you knew about a class before taking it

[upbeat sandal]

Fair enough

[winter smelt]

the reviews aren't publicly available, you need harvardkey to access it

[winter smelt]

I’m pretty sure the Q-guide is filtered, anyway
not to my knowledge?

there are some pretty scathing reviews in there lmao

a classic (physics 144 - symmetries and geometry in quantum mechanics)

[next pendant]

One of the stats class was literally

Do not take this class, take x instead

[winter smelt]

probably 111 (inference)? or maybe 102 (stats for life sciences)?

111 has improved a lot recently

I think 102 is still widely disliked

[next pendant]

102 @winter smelt i think

[shrewd token]

dng

dang

[sonic oyster]

I still haven’t submitted a LOCI 💀

[vague ice]

don't

[sonic oyster]

Why not?

[vague ice]

cuz i'm on the WL

[sonic oyster]

But aren’t you CO26?

[vague ice]

no i'm '27 but i just have a path to graduate from rutgers in 3 years i believe

[kind elk]

I think you’re pretty late but just submit it if you want to

The chances of getting off are already really low so you don’t lose anything

other than the time you spend writing a loci

[sonic oyster]

Has anyone got off the waitlist yet?

[bronze spire]

Viv where’d u commit

[knotty bramble]

Waitlist updates?

[kind elk]

Stanford 27 asking for Harvard waitlist updates

Crazy

Oh, and I read this online for all the people on the wl

Admissions year typically concludes at the end of June they say

So I’d assume there’s a chance of getting off the wl until then

[upbeat sandal]

Specific statistics for admits off the WL show roughly 12/yr

[knotty bramble]

I meant has anyone been taken off yet?

[kind elk]

I highly doubt it

[upbeat sandal]

Don't believe they offer admission to any WL candidates until at least May 1 and it might extend through June.

So unlikely anyone has been taken off yet.

It's possible they don't accept anybody.

[barren shell]

whered u get this number from? i've seen it going up 60/70 on avg a year

just curious

[upbeat sandal]

I suppose I can't recall the exact source. But it's true the number varies quite a bit. Something I can sight is Harvard's FAQ, which says that in some years they've taken 0 and in others up to 200.

[kind elk]

Wait, I have the statistics 1 sec

[upbeat sandal]

Obviously because Harvard almost always admits enough to ensure a full class.^^

[kind elk]

admitted from Harvard WL over the past few years. Data taken from official Harvard websites.

2024: 34
2025: 0
2026: 36
2027: ?

[barren shell]

not liking that pattern lol

[kind elk]

My calculations predict that the yield rate needs to be <83% for there to be any chance of people getting off the WL this year. Keep in mind that I am dumb and that my calculations are most likely wrong though.

[shrewd token]

lmao

[bronze spire]

so true

[barren shell]

ik you mean well but i couldn’t help but 🤓🤓🤓 when you said “my calculations predict that…”

old habits die hard

[kind elk]

[kind elk]

[kind elk]

@blazing sentinel

[blazing sentinel]

ty

[kind elk]

Np

[civic ermine]

harvard even though you waitlisted me I still love you with all my heart

[kind elk]

So do the other 2k people on the WL

[silk night]

has anyone gotten off the wl?

[thorny quarry]

is this a community college

[kind elk]

No

[kind elk]

Yes

[silk night]

do they send rejections from wl or do u just get nothing

[vague ice]

when do HYPSM waitlists come out?

[dry scaffold]

midvard

[bronze spire]

Facts

[kind elk]

Probably nothing unless they decide to reject everyone and send an email about that

[kind elk]

Nobody knows

[kind elk]

idk about the other schools but this is for Harvard

[knotty bramble]

How many percent of applicants does Harvard WL

[kind elk]

Nobody knows

They don’t release that information, nor do they release how many people get off the WL each year

[kind elk]

This is the only information I was able to find, I couldn’t find data on any other years

Idk how many were waitlisted in those years

[stuck pumice]

I have a feeling they might also take quite a few this year

[kind elk]

Why is that

[stuck pumice]

a lot of the mostec kids didn't commit

when do they release it for 2027?

[kind elk]

that’s like 20 people max maybe

[kind elk]

release what

[stuck pumice]

yeah that's true

[kind elk]

From what I’ve seen, Harvard’s ideal class size is 1600-1650

[stuck pumice]

the waitlist number for 2027

[kind elk]

They over admit by like 300-400

[stuck pumice]

ah perhaps not then

[kind elk]

Their yield rate has been consistent the past 3 years (~81%)

I don’t see why it would drastically change this year

There’ll probably be like 50 or so admits off the wl

otherwise 0

[kind elk]

This isn’t enough years to say it’s a pattern

but the numbers are still useful

[stuck pumice]

true true

[barren shell]

they also admitted like 1900

and they do not have an 85% yield, 80 at best

so perhaps there will be wls to get in

[kind elk]

Class of 2026 had 83% yield rate
Class of 2025 had 85% yield rate
Class of 2024 had 81% yield rate

Class of 2026 admits: 1984 (1647 accepted offer, admitted from WL: 36)
Class of 2025 admits: 1968 (1673 accepted offer, admitted from WL: 0)
Class of 2024 admits: 1980 (1603 accepted offer, admitted from WL: 34)

Class of 2027 admits: 1942 (? accepted offer, admitted from WL: ?)

I think we’ll see some waitlist movement this year but probably nothing too crazy

[barren shell]

fs

[kind elk]

maybe just 30-50

If they hit like 84-85% yield again this year, though, I don’t see a reason for them to resort to WL

unless they’re missing a group of people they need

Anyway, there’s no point speculating over this lol

We’ll see what happens

[pearl briar]

class of ‘15 didn’t like harvard i guess

[bronze spire]

Prolly more cross admitting back then

So students would be able to choose from like multiple hypsm

[next pendant]

nah

They wiped out early admissions back then

That spike is from them adding it back

[bronze spire]

Oh like ppl get in rea and dont apply anywhere else

[next pendant]

To other schools

why stress out abt other apps when u already got Princeton

ppl back then weren’t prestigious w***es like A2C is today

[wild shore]

i wonder if this is just the amount who accepted the un-waitlist because i know some people who got into mit and turned down a harvard waitlist -> accept

[wild shore]

i like harvmid better

[serene lion]

midvard sounds like squidward >

[civic ermine]

Harvard if you accept me just remember I’ll scream in a Walmart for you 🙂

[kind elk]

😟

[shrewd token]

dont accept cough cough

[high steeple]

any news from the harvard waitlist?

im waitinggg 😭

[barren shell]

check cc

[modern prism]

probably won’t be hearing anything until next week, I remember in a previous year, the first person got off the waitlist on the 14/15 I think

[sonic oyster]

Will I need to send my final grades for the waitlist. They’re going to be pretty bad(Cs and Bs compared to 4.0 previously), so they’d immediately knock me out of consideration.

[bronze spire]

Not for waitlist i dont think

[kind elk]

I don’t think so, but you would be required to send them if by some rare chance you get off the waitlist

[sonic oyster]

Yeah, that's fine, I got my Fs up to Cs, so I don't think I'll be rescinded.

[kind elk]

Cs are murky territory

[sonic oyster]

Yeah, but I also took like 6 college classes this semester and have a 4.0 there, so I don't think it will be a big deal to have 2 HS Cs

[kind elk]

Ok

[bronze spire]

From what ive seen C’s are safe

Getting rescinded for academics is super super rare

[serene lion]

they might ask your counselor for grades before making a decision

no source for this it’s just a thing that’s happened for decisions

[sonic oyster]

Does anyone know how many people Harvard waitlists each year?

[sonic oyster]

Yeah, I saw some people on CC saying that happened with Stanford

[serene lion]

but who knows - good luck

[barren shell]

abt 2k?

[kind elk]

nobody knows, they don’t release that info

except for a few years, they typically don’t release how many people get off the wl either

[kind elk]

you prob saw this already but ye

[kind elk]

.

[sonic oyster]

Darn, I was hoping it was closer to Stanford’s 500

[barren shell]

i could be massively wrong

becos they dont report it and i couldnt find anything when i searched it up

[kind elk]

Honestly, I’d assume it’s around what you said earlier (~2-3k)

Unlike Stanford, Harvard loves to defer people

Stanford has a smaller WL + they only defer people they’re actually considering. Both of these are somewhat indications that Stanford is actually considering admitting you.

On the other hand, Harvard defers over 70% of applicants so I’d assume they also waitlist a lot of people, giving them a false sense of hope

yale also follows a similar approach that Stan does

this is just pure speculation and could be completely wrong though

[barren shell]

pton as well i think

they wl few and accept quite a bit off their wls

*based off of last yr's cds

[kind elk]

the problem with schools like harvard is that a lot of people who are admitted tend to accept the offer of admission simply because it’s Harvard at the end of the day

so they almost never need to resort to their waitlist or feel the need to take more than 50 ppl from the wl

[barren shell]

^^ the only people who'd likely reject harvard's offer of admission are stem people (non-bio related majors) who have gotten admitted to a YPSM

sad times

[kind elk]

yeah, I think in Harvard vs Yale most people go Harvard

only ones that are a real consideration are H vs S vs MIT imo

[barren shell]

tbh if i was engineering or a non bio natural science (like physics) id choose princeton over harvard

cause fusion center and ive heard pton engineering is far better than harvard engineering

[shrewd token]

Tbf if I got accepted from any HYPSM school I would do any

[median jolt]

its about 2/3 to 1/3

harvard v princeton is even lower

probably because of the larger overlap in princeton and harvards strengths

[sonic oyster]

I'm surprised by that. I thought Princeton was much better for undergraduate education + was stronger in theoretical science + math.

[winter smelt]

in theoretical science and math Harvard is pretty top

undergrad education is debatable

undergrad focus, princeton is better, sure

[kind elk]

yeah, exactly

MIT/Stan vs Harvard is near 50-50 but harvard is still winning in both

[fathom blaze]

I heard Visitas this year was really... bad L O L I know folks who committed elsewhere bc of it

[drifting burrow]

idt it was bad lol

just kinda underwhelming compared to like cpw ig

[bronze spire]

2019???

ur old 😲

[fathom blaze]

lol yeah my sister applied to colleges this year so I was just here to see what was going on

[barren shell]

2019 is crazy

[median jolt]

what specifically was bad? i heard similar things from the few crossadmit prefrosh i found but nothing specific

[median jolt]

hmmm fair

[kind elk]

I heard the 2nd day was boring because there were mostly only humanities classes that you could go to and watch the lecture

and it was raining on the first day

[median jolt]

bruh the fuck

yale had plenty of open seminars and prefrosh only classes (both lecture / seminar style) it was pretty well done

[kind elk]

yeah, i didn’t go but if i remember the visitas schedule correctly basically every class on the 2nd day was a humanities class

my friend said there was 1 cs class but it was in the sec which you need to take the shuttle to get to (or spend 15 mins walking from the yard)

[winter smelt]

I think it always is lol

[median jolt]

oh that's dumb as fuck

[neon sail]

tbhhh idt it was that bad like

i had a lot of fun even tho it was raining

the first day was great like all the events but it was annoying bc everything overlapped

[sonic oyster]

Does anyone know if Harvard will take anyone off the waitlist this year, or if it will be another 0 year?

[winter smelt]

no one knows at this stage

[modern prism]

someone on CC said that they called and was told that they would accept a small number of people this year

how small? We won’t know

[sonic oyster]

I called them and they said they will be admitting a “small handful” of students from the waitlist and they are still deliberating.

My guess is around ~10-15

[kind elk]

why would you call them lmfao

but yeah nobody knows

[elder comet]

i know someone who got off the waitlist

her sibling already goes to harvard though

[silk night]

Do u know when they found out?

[sonic oyster]

Already?

[sonic oyster]

I wanted to know if it would be a 0 year.

Because I haven’t finished my loci and didn’t want to waste time finishing it if 0 people would get off the waitlist

[kind elk]

o, you haven’t submitted it yet? 😳

what major did you apply as?

[sonic oyster]

Math and physics(I want to do theoretical physics).

[kind elk]

ah ok

Would you happen to have any legacy

[sonic oyster]

Nope, I’ve got no hooks(also Asian male)

[kind elk]

I see

cause I think being a legacy helps if you’re waitlisted

[sonic oyster]

I also applied as a joke but now actually want to go there, so my application kind of sucked

[kind elk]

less risk associated with taking a legacy off the wl

[sonic oyster]

What risk would there be?

[kind elk]

Higher chance they’d attend if taken off the wl perhaps

and it makes the parents happy so possibly more donos

[sonic oyster]

But if my loci says something like If admitted from the waitlist, I’d be exited to attend”, wouldn’t they know I’d attend if admitted

[kind elk]

Yeah, but everyone says that

so they need to be sure

Otherwise they need to spend more time debating and take another student off the wl if someone declines the wl admit offer

Idk how it works though

chances are super slim regardless, no point in speculating

[sonic oyster]

Is there any better way I could try phrasing it?

[kind elk]

Idk, but I’m sure everyone who sent a loci has something along the lines of what you said

[sonic oyster]

But, I don’t think Ibjave a chance regardless. My interviewer literally told me I’d be a better fit for MIT, and I could always cross enroll at Harvard. I guess he thought MIT had a 100% acceptance rate or something.

[kind elk]

otherwise they wouldn’t be sending a loci

[sonic oyster]

And when I asked him why he went to Harvard, he just said because his parents went there and he wanted to continue the “tradition”.

[kind elk]

lol

[sonic oyster]

Both of his kids also went to Harvard lol

[kind elk]

He definitely continued the tradition

and I’m sure his kids will as well

[sonic oyster]

Yeah, he asked me where my parents wen(both went to MIT), so he concluded that any other school would be a bad fit as a result. 😭

[kind elk]

😔

[sonic oyster]

It’s even funnier because MIT wasn’t even in my top 3 choices(although I was rejected/waitlisted from all of them)

[kind elk]

It’s arguably the best for math and physics though, no?

[sonic oyster]

My top three were Caltech, Princeton, Stanford. MIT was 4th

[kind elk]

Did you get waitlisted by Stan?

Heard their wl is somewhat better than Harvard

[sonic oyster]

Yeah, I got rejected by Caltech, but waitlisted at Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, and UChicago(rejected later)

[kind elk]

Ok

Did you submit a loci for Stan?

[sonic oyster]

Yeah, but I impulsively spammed them with 3 updates 2 days before the decisions were released. So, I blew my chances there.

[kind elk]

yikes

Eh you never know

Maybe they didn’t even see the updates

[sonic oyster]

I referenced them in my loci.

But, a research group at SLAC did send a letter to admissions on my behalf so maybe that will help.

[kind elk]

I think like 1/5 of Stanford wl gets admitted

so you have a decent shot there I’d suppose

plus they only waitlist like ~500 ppl I think

[sonic oyster]

Last year, I think they only accepted 8 people off the waitlist

[kind elk]

o

prob just an outlier year

usually it’s around 100 lemme check

Hmm, you’re right

It was 259 admits one year but the rest are like 8-30

[sonic oyster]

Also, I’m already a bit younger(16), so all the updates I sent probably make me appear too ‘immature’.

[kind elk]

we’ll see what happens ig

Penn is good too

I know it wasn’t your top choice but it’s still Penn at the end of the day

[winter smelt]

ayo based

[winter smelt]

meh it's kinda a wash for the T5 or so math/physics schools

[vague ice]

the faculty are pretty even, yeah, but almost all the best math/physics students swarm to mit these days so there's that

[winter smelt]

lol disagree

caltech, harvard, stanford, princeton, etc do just fine recruiting physics students lol

and grad placement is pretty comparable

[sonic oyster]

I thought MIT’s focus was more on the applied sciences and engineering

[winter smelt]

I wouldn't say that either

MIT pure science is just as good as anywhere else

[trim meteor]

wait someone got off already? when?

[median jolt]

lmao

[vague ice]

i mean if you don't believe me just look at putnam results in recent years ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[elder comet]

yesterday i believe

[median jolt]

Oh misread

ur not wrong

but MIT autoadmits so many of the USAMO ppl

so im not sure if putnam results r the greatest metric for that reason

[kind elk]

^ exactly

like most oly kids get into mit and just end up going there cause it’s the best option or they did ea

so it’s not mit that’s teaching students to produce the Putnam results but rather it’s just the quality of the ppl that they admit

[dry scaffold]

harvard lemme in

[winter smelt]

in math idt it's really a quality thing

it's just numbers

MIT has more math majors than the other schools in question

but e.g. not more physics majors

[final turtle]

Princeton clears at physics tbh

Harvard and MIT are kinda equal with MIT having a stronger experimental focus and Harvard having a stronger theoretical focus so I’ve heard

[vague ice]

any news re waitlist?

[kind elk]

#1051701741047005225 message

[sonic oyster]

Waitlist results may start coming out today.

[vague ice]

ughh the anxiety

do they always call if they're going to make an offer?