#Harvard University (2024-2025)
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you usually only get into like ur top one i think
icic
not like 3/4 of them
hmm tbh no
the fanfiction one is super popular from the looks of the 29 chat ;-;
oh shi😭
everyone wants to do it
make sure to rank it first
yeah for sure
and i’d at least write a few sentences
i want to do that one and one about a tree
ooo
you get assigned a single tree in the arboretum and you learn about it for an entire semester
wait that sounds so fire
the description for the class is so funny
seminars are also hella chill i’m really glad i did it
i’d def go for it but wouldn’t stress over it
sneak in at night
lol
im not getting it, they always choose some oly kid from my country
real
you’d be better off trying to find third party scholarships imo
if your country offers scholarships for students going abroad or smth
LMAO
my broke ahh country cant afford that shit 😭
harvard either is or isn’t gonna give you aid, you can’t rlly control it
as a hungarian, same 💀
do you want to chanceme
sometimes american organizations offer scholarships to students from certain countries
or just intl students in general, but those are more competitive
chanceme isn’t super accurate imo
like it depends on context
yeah i dont mean tell me if im going get into harvard
just tell me what you think of my app
if i had been in the bay area, my stats would not have been enough to get in, but since i wasn’t, my accomplishments look better
idk whether it would be a strong app or not bc i don’t know what opportunities you had, what school you went to, where you live, etc
i dont think they care about all that for my country even
atp, they just grind oly
i had never even heard of an olympiad before i got in lmao
i promise you they look at your entire application, not just your awards
same gng, i didnt know what it was too
i dont want ivy
id go anywhere thatd give me a fullride
which ig is the same difficulty as ivy
oh hell nah
try #954421825427865690
chanceme is like hella inaccurate because they completely forget about the existence of LORs, everyone rates their essays "pretty good", and theres not that much context about their school/region which is ig inevitable w the nature of anonymous posts but yeah
chanceme sux
yeah what jeni said
also i want to add that very rarely have i read essays that i thought were “pretty good” 💀 most people wayyyy overestimate how good they are at writing
unclear antecedents, starting every sentence with “I”, no sentence diversity, same worn ideas over and over again
honestly i feel like if you can write an actually good essay you’re at a huge advantage, esp if you’re not a humanities major
bc i’m sorry but cs majors can’t write 😭
also sometimes people just write crazy??? red flagish stuff and dont realize it 😭
LMAO YEAH
or it’s the most americas got talent sob story ever
like okay yeah i’m sorry your entire family got run over by a stampede but why would we admit you bc of that
or when they talk about how much x person has inspired them… like that’s great but it’s your application, not your greandfather’s
no for real 😭 people assume you NEED trauma to get into a good school
frrrr
and that causes people to literally lie about things
like tell me why i met unironically multiple cs guys who considered lying about being gay for diversity points
omg i saw this reel abt this dude taking kids into death valley to give them smth to write about for college essays 💀 funniest thing ever
being gay will not get you into a good school alone 😭
nah that’s crazy
isn’t that also one of the things they encourage you not to write about lmao
bc it’s so overdone
coming out, immigrating to america, winning the championship game, etc etc
i think it can be a great topic if you have a major story connected to it/you worked on ecs related to it and your lgbtq+ identity inspired you to work on those ecs
but the thing is people think that JUST having unique identities will get you into a good school 😭
yeah, it’s just super easy to turn into an agt sobfest
right 💀
enough with the sports essays 😞
On the day of the big game... I... stubbed my toe
The coach put me on the bench
I cried and begged to be let back on the field
My team lost without me
That day, I learned that I am the superior player
Please accept me
bro i can’t if i have to read about “the ball dribbled ballsly during my game of ballball. today was the big day. it was go big, or go home.”
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO
“as i lined up the shot, i could see the faces of my disappointed teammates already. i couldn’t miss this shot. not today. not after my LLM startup had just received one million dollars from an anonymous donor (with no familial ties whatsoever). not only were my teammates counting on me, but also the disenfranchised community of 4.0 1550 SAT bay area students that would surely not make it through the winter without the help of TalkGPT (my completely original AI startup).”
LMFAOOOO
bro my biggest pet peeve is when like
the essay just dives into a random ahh ec
😭
like yeah i get narratives and spikes but like holy shit be more discrete 🥀 resume dump
“i stop, i shoot… I SCORE! Not only for my team, but for the thousands of disparaged bay area youth relying on me. You’re welcome.”
i’ll be takingmy HYPSM acceptance now
bruh uniornically ive seen versions of that exact line
ikr 💀 they’re always so corny
i kinda resume dumped but i did like one ec per essay
and i always tied the essays back to a central theme
honestly my essays were prolly ahh
they were super cliche
yeah real
but it’s okay i’ll find out once i get on campus
bro request ur files pls
i cant see my files it sux
whaaaaat does columbia not let you?
yeah my essays probably killed me icl
average chinese woman in business/stem
bro i got in purely bc of LOR glaze i’m telling you rn
and bc my state is super noncompetitive
yeah they wipe ur records before u enroll for a fresh start
that’s crazy
apparently what u can do tho is like
build up a relationship w ur AO
and just straight up ask them
LOR glaze hella underrated
ohhh that’s smart
FR
no one focuses on it tho bc you can’t rlly do anything about it by senior year lmao
the teachers either like you or they don’t
i think some other top schools have started doing this too
i can’t screenshot mine or take pictures
yeah fr also it gives them a lot better context into how well u compare to ur peers
dont they take u into a room and tell u and then u have to like take notes off of it urself or smth like that
that might be yale
i think so, i heard they switched it to digital tho
ohhh intriguing
like they just push it out to your portal
idk tho prolly one of the 28ers know
idek if you have to ask for it anymore, like they might just push it out to everyone 💀
thats lowkey really funny
They just put the file in your my harvard files
You get 24 hours access to it
oh that’s crazy
you can just save that shit to your computer lol
dyk when they do that
are you allowed to or do ppl just do it anyway? 😭
You have to request it with a form it takes about 2 months
ohhh ic
Once you request it
Everybody does it idk if it’s “allowed” or not
icic
You can’t request it until you’re matriculated fully enrolled student
Which doesn’t happen until you’re there
They’re lying; it’s finalized. Same thing happened last year with ‘28ers and we all got what it said we had. And the ‘27ers
how do they manage to leak it every year 😭
Last year just our yard was leaked come to think of it
for some of us we only got a yard
but most got a dorm
i think it was oak and elm yard that only got yards
There’s a 97% chance it’s right
have u not gotten ur housing yet what
how tf r u ‘30
gap year!
Rip
well technically no but it got leaked so ik what dorm im in
Which one
leaked is crazy
but it officially comes out thursday
wigglesworth 🔥🔥🔥
portal astro for housing is crazy
Rip
no way thats the actual name
no like they actually just sent it out then unsent it 💀💀💀
I hate everything about Wigg
you're a wiggle 😭
im a wiggler 🔥
The smallest entryway is called Wiglet
apparently wigg gets broken into
wiggler and wiener
Only first floor
there’s also bigwig and midwig
Big wig is cool
but en suite bathrooms!!!
But still I don’t like the location of it
literally me
Ur tucked behind widener
ic
It went male floor women floor male floor women floor
apparently wigg has rats too 😭
looked too fast and thought this was dartmouth
ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ
The entire yard is infested with mice little bro
oh sick if that’s the case then i’ll get second floor and not first
nooo 😭😭😭
okay it could be worse
Every dorm has mice 🐁
im confused what is the houses then
ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ
Huh
there’s only 14 of you and you’re above the dean
i dont see a wigglesworth
social life death sentence
That’s upper class men
All freshman live in the Yard
Hardly
ooh
The biggest party animal ik lived in mass hall
okay yeah but you can’t bring the party back to your dorm
Also what dean is in Mass Hall? Never seen them they have offices in university hall
Yes you can; I’ve been to a gathering in Massachusetts hall
Each entryway has a proctor anyways it’s not like there isn’t a harvard employed individual knowing your ass is having a party
Proctors are usually grad students
Also in each house you have a res dean living with you little bro
lemme check
“The president of the university, provost, treasurer, and vice presidents have offices that occupy the first two floors and half of the third. Freshmen reside in the fourth floor.”
Ah you’re right ig
Lol if you were put in mass hall you’re a social butterfly
They only put people in there who they know will flourish socially regardless
nah i think the reason i got out in wigg is bc i said i wanted a lot of roommates, an en suite bathroom, and to meet a bunch of new people
I didn’t get any of my preferences 
so they gave me the biggest dorm with like 4-6 ppl in each room 💀
bathrooms were my third preference
Lol
i think academic and social matches were first and second
Is big room a preference?
i don’t think so
I got a huge ass double
you can’t even request a single on the sheet
minimum number of requested roommates is 1 lmao
unless you have like a disability
You don’t get a single unless you’re lucky or you have a disability accommodations
yeah
Some girl in my entryway got a single bc her roommate got kicked out of harvard before she moved in LOL
nah that’s crazy 😭 what did she do
bruh yale lowk gives out singes like candy
I think she submitted plagarixed research
oh that’s crazy
did they not move someone else into her suite
No all the dorm assignments were done, also wasn’t a suite just a double
you don’t even have to submit the research when you apply bruh 😭 it’s fully optional
isn’t it like honor system based
What’s honor system based?
like if you put that you did a bunch of research as your first ec they’re not gonna fact check it
they’ll just assume you did it
They fact check
Every college facts check; they may not fact check every little detail but you can usually tell
or just found it online
She probably said she did XYZ research and they let her in but then maybe somehow they found out she didn’t actually do XYZ research
Mf do I look like the AO
fake
bro idk 💔
they should kiss
Help
the secret is out guys i’m straight i lied about it for my apps
Would NOT help them get in rn
i think i put roommate number, compatibility, and noise level but idr
you’re a basketball player who stubbed his toe before the big game too aren’t you
😭
it was football... i sprained my pinky finger before the homecoming game.
toughest battles for the strongest soldiers
future leaders btw
dont you have to go be in lesbians with whats her name or something
good morning to you too cola
it is almost 6:30pm
omg uni
but whose bed is he warming
thats not a real thing
thats not a penis thats a chode
im disrespecting it
that is not that
ur lebanese
we can summon her
no she doesnt shes a very busy woman and i respect and adore her
shes getting her education rn
unlike some lazies who take a gap
and what are YOU doing rn 🙄
waiting on this laundry to finish so i can pack
yawn im melting into the sofa
How are the elm dorms
there are 3
https://dso.college.harvard.edu/elm-yard
Hey
Going good <3
im doing AMAZING bc ur here
Awwww
🙄
jealous keep malding
you have hair now. lets see how this gap treats you.
at least im employed
ive been employed for 4 summers now!
Jk
only summers?
pleas censor mply*d
jeni
uhh yeah my dad likes me to focus on school and also its a summer internship
🙄
no u should work 25/8
And I won't have to pay 80k a year to go there /j
no way . 80k/yr. bye
which means its 79k?
Wow
oh is that full?
Full ride ?
i hate discord formatting
Damn
yes thats what im asking twin/wife
Wait
We can only be one
No incest
😨
no like ur my soul twin
yeah <3
soulcest
HELP
i know what tag have .
i assumed so because it had 3 different ones on the bottom
oh idk it might be like server categories idk
find ur own
thanks queen
pfoho mentioned
my cousin lived there
radcliffe quad peak
apparently harvard is advising us to only join like two clubs
does anyone actually follow that
thats honestly a good rule of thumb for college clubs in general
hs clubs are nothing compared to college ones
especially if you want to go for a leadership position at some point
commit to two yes but i heard you should start off with like, 10 so you can narrow down what you want to commit to and have leadership in
is my msg correct-ish...
starting with 10 is kind of insane
ok its like a hard max
idk what its like at harvard but at usc during the beginning of the semester clubs will table on the main walkway through campus so you can talk to members and get a sense of what the club is like/committment required
most people do like 4-6 minimum iirc
which is super super helpful
again idk abt harvard but club apps are open here at the start of both fall and spring so if you want to join another club you dont have to wait an entire year
yea i lowkey only joined like 1 and did 1 volunteering thing
i’m already a part of like 5 summer comps 😭
yes we do this too 🙏
activities fair
very important thing to remember is that just because you can, doesnt mean you should
especially first semester freshman year
emphasis on this
first semester is holy transition bruh
so glad i took it chill
also you can still do stuff mid-semester
i didnt start working a student job until end of oct because i knew i physically could not handle it at the start of the sem
i like how this thread has evolved into more than just harvard ppl bc all of the other megathreads are dead
except for waitlist but that one makes me sad
what can i say
harvard ppl might just be the most chalant and cool
waiting on a waitlist at the end of july bro pack it up 🥀
i got waitlisted from cmu
shit was hell
is not fun to remember it
also the whole intl student situation has caused a lot of waitlists to extend
yeah but it gets to a point where you should be hopeful but... focusing on ur enrollment
oh yea i only accepted the waitlist slot to see if i could get in i was not holding out any hope lmfao
like its just going to make you resent the school youre going to when fall comes around and you have to go there and not the place that waitlisted you
exactly
that also wasn't @ you btw I just really find the people asking about waitlist movement everyday and praying on international students being banned from the US to get off the wl rly rly rly RLY RLY RLY annoying
no youre all good lmfao
ik we arent supposed to get political in non-verified areas but ngl i feel like this is being used by conservatives to breed resentment against intl students just like [REDACTED ADMISSIONS PRACTICE] bred resentment against students of color
type shit
Hell nah
housing assignments at noon(?) tmrw 🩷
wigglesworth best dorm
phreaky phofo
good luck making it past the interview rounds for more than 2
They are so competitive for no reason
And lots of them require a large time commitment, at least the pre-professionals one
real
fake
^ agreed
nvm its real
?
crazy switch up
LMAOOO
na
im sure its better than christlesworth
@reef grove You know it's not just Wigglesworth that gets broken into--pretty much all of the first floor dorms in the Yard
no way 😭
The Yard is open to the public pretty much 24/7, they close all of the gates except the 3 main ones at night and sometimes they have guards there but usually not. I know, specifically, last sem a 1st floor resident in Thayer got their like Macbook, Airpods Max, and backpack stolen lol
we need to station campus police outside each dorm window bruh
Bruh that place is BUMPING with tourists YEAR ROUND snowing? asian families. raining? asian families. -100 degrees? asian families. blood boiling heat? asian families.
The first semester I still wasn't used to all the damn people I was late to spanish lecture EVERY. SINGLE. MORNING. because I had it right when the first tour got to the JOhn Harvard statue
fml
that’s crazy lmao
It's like fucking conga lines going down the yard and they won't move any faster than -0.5 mph
wigg is right near widener so there’s prolly gonna be hella people there too
Nah wigg is actually p calm
It's behind widener, it's like in a lil alleyway I'd call it
oh good good
Hella tourists infront of widener tho
No lol it's just sandwiched behind Widener and the fence/wall of the Yard
Wigg is a pretty good location for humanities courses. You're humanities right? or what
Like full on humanities/social science or more like "viewing your options"
There are 2 types of people:
You come to harvard DEAD SET on one concentration and you just go for it
You come to harvard to find what you want to be dead set on
i might add stuff on but ik for sure i want to do government
Oh cool so ur right around all of those buildings then if you get on the far left side of Wigg/Mid wigg
noooo i want wigglet </3
That might be wigglet I don't remember
lol
I assume gov courses are taught in Sever Hall/that History building behind it
@reef grove Wait so do you literally have no math requirement? bc that'd be crazy
yeah i have that quantitative reasoning requirement
but i think my gov class even offers it 💀
bruh how do they justify that
Wiggle wiggle wiggle
noon needs to hurry up
frrr
en suite but 2 bedrooms with 3 of us we'll figure it out ig
i have 5 ppl 3 bedrooms bahaha
in lionel?
lionel has 3 bedrooms
a common room is not a bedroom
their dorms must be different then
in lionel B is 3 bedrooms and a common room
we had setup where one person slept in common room
just realized im not in the yard
does that mean the dorms are better to make up for the distance
distance from what exactly?
everyone else ig
doesn't each yard have like . 3 residence halls
there are 4 yards 🥀
whats ur major❓️
oh
i thought they mightve put you there bc of the humanities building
just look up the yard you're in and they talk about stuff nearby
ur sick
how
at least lie to bro 🥀
ohhh shi mb
the dorms are HOTEL WORTHY
well they are more peaceful
5 stars
like no tourists
no way
lionel is peaceful and not far 😛
some have big common rooms
it looked pretty good in the pictures at least
did u get pennypacker
dewolfe
i would leave my dorm 3 minutes before class in the science center and make it on time
true lionel like top3
dewolfe???
????
yeah
what the fuck is dewolfe
might be overflow
thats upperclassman housing
😬😬
damn did they accept too many this year
they might have taken too many
chat is this good or bad for bro
dewolfe like a 7 or 8 minute walk to the science center
fr??
good
lets goooo
dewolfe is nice
i wonder how many freshmen are staying there tho
u have a kitchen and rooms are good sizes
bc it’s normally upperclassmen no?
yup
they may have admitted too many freshmen this yr
and need extra housing
"Your entryway is: DeWolfe
An entryway consists of 14 to 41 students who share a floor or section within your dorm building."
ig 14-41 of us
i wonder if it's all freshmen
bros not lying
that’s crazy, do you have roommates?
yeah 3 others
ur dorms should be
are they freshmen dyk?
the PAF/proctor teams
how is the lionel team looking
yeah 😭
A
i lowkey don’t know both of ur PAFs
my proctor already assigned my entryway homework bruh 😭
so can’t speak on that 😬
the hell
what is it
it’s like a survey thing
oh
Current Harvard ppl how is grays
harvard hilton
That’s js a nickname cuz it had water first
But like idk if grays is actually good or not
i stayed in grays for visitas and it was awesome
It seems like Matthews has all the amenities idk
en suite bathroom, big rooms, really pretty
How is the common room
spacious
like there were two desks, a couch, a table, snack carts, with room to spare
Cuz they have common rooms in the dorms and then big main ones right
How are the big main ones
I read that on the first floor of grays there’s a 35 person common room idk if that accurate tho
no elevator which sucked bc they loved on the fourth floor
oh idk i wasn’t first floor
i didn’t see any when i walked in tho
like it was kinda just a big stairwell
maybe i wasn’t in the right entryway to see it
it will not fit 35 ppl comfortably 💀💀
grays over matthews icl
valid take
matthews basement is cursed and musty
5 floors
that is all
I think matthews is the middest of the elm yard dorms but they are all decent
elm just mid in general
neither does grays tho
true true
did they send it via email?
yep
Huh….
wtf DeWolfe???
I want dewolfe ☹️
@steady galleon that’s crazy I can’t lie; that’s probs the best to get (not factoring in location) for a freshman
Yes and CS
It’s all one big yard, hardly anyone ever mentions oak yard/crim yard etc after orientation week it’s just harvard yard lol
