#Harvard University (2025-2026)

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muted bluff
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but uh

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she just got a job in tech apparently

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šŸ’€

muted bluff
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Wondering what you guys' interviews said at the end of the interview

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Cause my interviewer seemed a little bit lukewarm on me

worn kite
lost dawn
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did she seem uncomfortable

muted bluff
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she might just not be very forthcoming but when the interview ended it felt like she might not give a good rec ngl

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maybe i was too boring

lost dawn
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u prob did fine

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dont stress

muted bluff
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i might just be too anxious but idkkk

lost dawn
muted bluff
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just gotta pray she doesnt tell anyone that shell write a good rec even if she will

pliant obsidian
muted bluff
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I CANT TELL

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like

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is she just saying it was a pleasure because shes polite

lost dawn
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ur over analyzing it i think

thorny harbor
muted bluff
thorny harbor
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I assume the first line is getting to you but it’s standard etiquette for interviewers to not act like you have a guarantee bc even if they loved you you can still get rejected

muted bluff
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yeah true im just tripping over the fact that some other friends interviewers were like ill write a good rec and she never said anything along those lines

muted bluff
thorny harbor
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She has no obligation to say that

muted bluff
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well uhh

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i did say i would email her in march if i got good news

thorny harbor
thorny harbor
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I wonder if I can convince my dad to become alumni interviewer now that he’s retired

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I’ve never brought it up w him

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But despite claiming he doesn’t like Harvard’s politics he doesn’t seem to immediately toss the alum magazine they send us every couple months

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He’d probably half out me as a2cer bc he doesn’t understand what this is called he just calls it ā€œthe redditā€

muted bluff
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i want to do it

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im trying to convince my mom to interview for stanny

lost dawn
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and everything along those lines

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some r more open than others

dawn radish
muted bluff
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oh i lowkenuinely had no idea

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anyway yeah im feeling a little bit better about the interview now

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i didnt talk about my resume at all and i just really focused on personal motivations and stuff so even if she doesnt write a good rec itll at least be objectively new information for AOs

thorny harbor
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I told my dad and he said he’d have to be a member of a Harvard club (aka local alum group) to join

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So tldr you have to pay an annual membership fee to have the privilege to interview

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I was completely unaware of that

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Like ik alum orgs exist and charge but I thought they’d let volunteers off the hook bc free labor

muted bluff
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im crine this is diabolica

lost dawn
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paying to interview after u gave ur alma 400k 😭

thorny harbor
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Maybe they just use those as codes idk

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The wording is iffy

muted bluff
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theres no way they make you pay to do labor for them

lost dawn
muted bluff
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its giving summer program at NYU

lost dawn
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but 4 for alabama

muted bluff
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the concept of having an entire club for MILTON ma is KILLING me

thorny harbor
lost dawn
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or a people club fee

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like r the club leaders collecting it

muted bluff
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ah very cool so i gather that not a single harvard alum lives in my city

lost dawn
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this is real helpful

muted bluff
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they literally lump tgth all the low income cities

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and then the rich towns get their own

dawn radish
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My state combines it into the harvard yale princeton club

lost dawn
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that

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and more on just the nature of attendance

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of ppl who went

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cus alumni span a lot of generations

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i feel colleges were more money focused 30-40 even 50 yrs ago

thorny harbor
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@spring crypt do you happen to know the answer as to whether or not Harvard alumni are required to join and pay membership fees to become alum interviewers

thorny harbor
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So they at least have to contact the club but dunno if that leads into them paying

thorny harbor
lost dawn
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i just googled it

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yall got ur own club name too 😭

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THEY DO WEDDINGS AND EVENTS??

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AND THEY HAVE THEIR OWN HOUSE??

thorny harbor
lost dawn
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crine 😭

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@thorny harbor ts where the money goes

thorny harbor
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Lmfao sounds about right

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Tbf extravagance isn’t that uncommon

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Davis offers alums multi thousand dollars trips if they have membership but they gotta pay those multi thousands on top of their annual dues if they go

dawn radish
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lol mine is not that one

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its the alaska one

thorny harbor
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R we deadass

muted bluff
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of course they had PET membership

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hope they also have cow membership

dusky trellis
spring crypt
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The interviewing clubs are just how they refer to the geographic organization of alumni interviewers

lost dawn
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i had my harvard interview today

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went so well and it was abt 2 hours

muted bluff
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YOU ARE HARVARD BOUND FRFR

lost dawn
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she told me tho she needs to reach out to admissions or like

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whoever because of the terminology i used

muted bluff
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oh waht

lost dawn
muted bluff
lost dawn
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she is not allowed to put that word in a report

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its banned

muted bluff
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DEADASS

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im in shock what the hell?

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oh because they think its pejorative but you're using it as a specific identity

lost dawn
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its js precautions’

muted bluff
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can they say homosexxual

lost dawn
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nope

muted bluff
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this is so very silly

lost dawn
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nothing that explicitly says ur identity

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and because im applying to gender studies

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and sexuality and womens studies

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im passionate and everything i want to do is applying gender studies to different stuff

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i talked a lot about it

lost dawn
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and to preface she has children who are gay she is super super supportive

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i basically defined queer as an umbrella term w past negative roots but being a way of self expression in which you can love whoever, express urself however, and be authentic whenever

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it was v hard

muted bluff
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my interviewer did not ask ts

lost dawn
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but i think it went well considering we talked for 2 hrs

lyric elk
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I still haven’t sent my LOCI in when do you guys think the latest I can sent it

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i’m trying to get it in these next few days but i’ve got a lot of work for some reason

muted bluff
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prioritize the loci

lost dawn
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also for anyone w/ interviews i got these questions:

  • tell me abt urself
  • tell me abt what it was like growing up in ur family
  • why harvard
  • why major
  • if u could change any outcome of an event in ur life what would it be and why

and that was all she asked! we spent a lot of time talking about a bunch of stuff but she only asked five questions. i didnt do much prep and i was super vulnerable and i think i walked away proud of what i did instead of if i over prepped and became too robotic

muted bluff
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i got those (besides changing outcomes), but also:

what's a challenge you faced
what sort of communities are you looking for in college
what sort of college experience do you want
name an event or time that changed your mind or the way you thought about something
what sort of career do you want
what do you do outside of school?
what achievement (academic or otherwise) are you most proud of
anything i missed?

we focused a LOT on what i wanted from college which really tripped me up

lost dawn
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i think it just goes to show how it depends on ur interviewer

muted bluff
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yeah mine kinda grilled me

barren swan
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Mine didn’t ask any questions besides tell me ab urself

vast vigil
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all of the events of my life have impacted who i am, i wouldnt be the same person without any of the bad stuff

uneven hare
lost dawn
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let me dm u ill tell u more

lost dawn
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and being thta it helped influence my major

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i couldnt not talk about it

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so she was like

vast vigil
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I deadass mentioned being trans in my interview

lost dawn
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i used queer and stuff throughout my interview until about an hour in

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and she was like hey fyi i want to do this now and let u know

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i cannot put this word in ur report at all

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so she needed me to describe what queer meant without any identifiers that could give the direct link to me saying im gay

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but i want to preface she was super understanding and she talked about her experience as a mom with two children also going through ts

vast vigil
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ā€œpart of a diverse community of different identitiesā€

lost dawn
vast vigil
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Thats diabolical

lost dawn
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if ur int’l

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ur already lacking in alumni #

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nothing is a sign of anything is how u should approach everything

uneven hare
lost dawn
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but anyways

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i think the interview went well

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it was my first one so a little stressful

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but i enjoyed it

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i have a yale one on thursday so this was just prep for that ig

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harvard assigns so late

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ur fine

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just be patient

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also remember ur int’l and a lot of what ur seeing online comes from domestic students

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and of course thats such a skew in what u think ur seeing

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to preface i live 2 hours away from where my interviewer does

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so i rlly think its just about whos in ur area

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and as an int’l its even harder

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but dont lose hope

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ppl get in w/o interviews

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all the time

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try and get that done soon

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thats good

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u got this

lyric ocean
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yea i jsut had my interview a couple hours ago and i think it REALLY depends on the interviewer. the only real questions my interviewer asked were:

  1. tell me about ur background (like how the conditions u grew up in shaped your interests) and some end goals for career
  2. what are some experiences youve had relating to ur major
  3. what are some things you do/do not want to take away from your college experience
    we were able to keep the convo flowing well by talking about modern issues in teh world relating to my major (like ai and political policy, which was good bc theyre a diplomat)
    one thing i asked them (and i recommend everyone asking this) is: what specific experience/encounter did u have that changed the way you viewed a topic unrelated to ur major?
    i think our interview lasted like 70-80 mins iirc. overall cool experience to talk to a person with a background that im very unfamiliar with
spring crypt
oak bobcat
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when will they ask for interview. or is it too late😭

dawn radish
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ik a few ppl applied in my area but only two of us got an interview and we both got in

oak bobcat
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thanks

lyric ocean
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Yo my interviewer just called me again this morning like 10 mins ago, I was asleep tho

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What do I do?

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Actually wait I wasn’t even alseep, my phone was in my hand but I didn’t even feel the call

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Yall think it was just a butt dial?

oak bobcat
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i dont think itd be rude to call him back

lyric elk
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Hi guys, I have a question. I applied REA to harvard with 2 other kids in my school. 1 got in and me and another kid got deferred. The other kid who got deferred got an interview in november while I didn’t get one. Now with the rd pool, i know a kid who just got a harvard interview at my school? What does this mean for me??

sonic cloud
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can anyone take a look at my LOCI?

potent verge
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my harvard interview is in a few hours

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šŸ™šŸ™šŸ™

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do they ask a lot about why harvard… or more about yourself

muted bluff
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mine asked a lot about myself

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like why major and what do you want out of college

round bluff
potent verge
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thanks going to meet them now 🄹

vast vigil
potent verge
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i just finished

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it was 0% about harvard for me

muted bluff
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i got what is your connection to harvard

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and what do you want out of college

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but not why harvard

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probably because it’s obvious

loud knot
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i have it in 12 hours

sonic cloud
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can someone take a look at my loci?

frank mica
broken shell
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Can someone lie to me and tell me that a interview means something good

uncut sail
uncut sail
thorny harbor
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My dad lore dropped to me abt his Harvard interview

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This was in the early 80s

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He said he had two

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For the first one a staff member at his school pulled him and another kid out of class into a conference room where a Harvard alum was waiting (believe they interviewed separately tho)

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Neither of them knew they were getting interviewed until it happened

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The alum was a bit of a hardass like when my dad brought up how coworkers at the maintenance place he worked at had ā€œpersonal issuesā€ (coming to work drunk) interviewer asked my dad how he’d fix that

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Alum also asked my dad abt newton’s three laws since he found out my dad was taking physics but since my dad forgot the third he just bullshitted and said ā€œwe haven’t gone over the third yetā€

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The second interview was on Harvard’s campus with an AO but my dad requested that one

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He said that was an easy one and it sounded more like current day alum interviews

muted bluff
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this is insane 😭

thorny harbor
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I’m unsure if the first interview was a normal thing

broken shell
thorny harbor
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My dad was on a full tuition baseball scholarship to attend an expensive country day school

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So there’s a chance they got special treatment there

muted bluff
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apparently my moms harvard interview went kinda similar but she got into stanford rea so she just told her interviewer that she hated harvard and that she thought it was sexist

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šŸ’€

thorny harbor
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LMAO

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Harvard was my dad’s EA (they didn’t do REA yet)

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He applied to Cornell too

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He briefly mentioned the interview but didn’t seem to like it

muted bluff
thorny harbor
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He was in NYC

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Idk how far their radius is

muted bluff
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the one i know of is like 2 miles

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so i dont know either

thorny harbor
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Is it Boston Latin

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I always hear that school

muted bluff
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not that one

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although they could

uncut sail
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Others have nightmares of freezing during public speaking or whatever

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I'm gonna have nightmares of having a sudden harvard interview with a serious ass interviewer

uncut sail
void aspen
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@vast vigil do yk when CSS profile is due for harvard

void aspen
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ok coool

void aspen
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FAFSA is so light nowadays

brazen sparrow
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hi guys i had my interview just now and my person was pretty strict on the timing like he pretty much ended it around 45 min as suggested is that a bad sign

vast sleet
brazen sparrow
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alright looking back i feel like i could have talked more bc he kept asking was there anything else u wanna share but i kinda just didnt cause in the moment i didnt feel comfortable to and i kind of regret it now ughhh

muted bluff
ashen dawn
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can’t change it now. i’m sure you did great! and the interview is such a small portion of the app

brazen sparrow
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thank youu

fossil wadi
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Can anyone look at my essay?

kind carbon
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if i got deferred and I want to submit an additional rec should I submit it thru commonapp or should I give the link from the portal to my recommender

kind carbon
# dawn radish portal link

it says use the link ā€œoutside of the allotted recommendations through the Common Applicationā€ but I still have space for an additional rec in commonapp. but idk if ur supposed to continue using commonapp at this stage

quasi fern
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i did

dusky trellis
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Is it normal for questbridge students to continue with there rd even after they matched?

lost dawn
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if they match that should be binding ed

dusky trellis
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One of my friends matched to a uni and she got a Harvard interview coming up

dusky trellis
lost dawn
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unless they had to back out bc of financials but i dont see how thats possible considering financials r covered

dusky trellis
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SHE said she applied to 5 rd but I thought it was binding meaning withdraw from other unis

lost dawn
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unless it was some other extenuating factor

dusky trellis
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Questbridge is full ride

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So Def not financials

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I was just shocked

lost dawn
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oh wait

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i looked it up

dusky trellis
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Cause I saw other ppl do it too

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I was like no one is agreeing to the agreement...

lost dawn
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it doesnt seem like u can get out unless some other extenuating factor appears

dusky trellis
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She committed tk the uni she even made a post abt it so I was like wait what's going on

ashen dawn
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mit is the only non binding one

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wait there are more

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pton qb is non binding

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neither is stanford (?)

dusky trellis
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Woah I didnt know that

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Yeah she matched with mit

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Thats interesting why are they non binding

ashen dawn
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im assuming bc they dont need the yield confirmed and also bc they wouldve given u the money anyway

muted bluff
lost dawn
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cus all qb is really is just ed for the school

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so ed would be rea

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or ea

dusky trellis
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So would yale be the same too?

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Since they're rea

muted bluff
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probably but who knows

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you can ask @honest solar he might know

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most locked in qb warrior on this server

honest solar
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A few years ago they weren't but they've since switched

honest solar
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All schools are except for MIT

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Oh Harvard what could have been

dusky trellis
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Ty!!

sterile lantern
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anyone from charlotte gotten an interview yet?

fading matrix
sterile lantern
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😭😭

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was so worried

soft cairn
# sterile lantern was so worried

LOLL I think we're all good! As long as we submitted our application, they'll get to us soon enough šŸ˜‚ I totally get feeling worried though šŸ˜…

tawdry steeple
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should i write a loci if i have basically nothing to update

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i know different schools have different opinions on locis im not sure what stance harvard has on it

uncut sail
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could be improved gpa/first semester grades, a new hooby you picked up, maybe a competiton you entered, etc

tawdry steeple
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ah okay fsfs

timber fern
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Is one A- in mid year report for RD cooked?

distant talon
devout wave
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some colleges don’t even care

vast vigil
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A lot of schools dont even distinguish A and A-

devout wave
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that must be rough for the people who get an 89 if it’s just letters

worn kite
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It won’t really matter for midyeae

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*midyeae

timber fern
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It’s just for one marking period of my senior year

worn kite
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Yup

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It’s not that important

lyric tundra
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it doesnt matter

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some of my teachers dont do + - while others do hard cut offs at their own perspective

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it wouldnt be very fair if they cared abt that

timber fern
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Would Harvard match my Princeton REA financial aid offer if it is about 30k/year better

muted bluff
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Probably??

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But no guarantees

timber fern
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Has anyone done something similiar

devout wave
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you can negotiate it yeah

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also princeton REA šŸ’€ you're cracked asf

worn kite
broken shell
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Yall my interviewer responded to my thank you note

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are we so back?

thorny harbor
timber fern
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But I like Harvard a bit more

timber fern
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How were your guys interviews

dusky trellis
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Ivies give a lot of aid but idk if its as much as pton

muted bluff
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I would not if I were you

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Cargos or slacks would be better

devout wave
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had good interview lowkey super personal conversation but i connected with him over family

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insane pull

vale gull
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is it normal for ao's to email applicants requesting additional information?

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my friend received an email from a senior ao requesting a full research paper after he submitted an abstract; I submitted an abstract as well and did not receive any request

barren swan
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this is a good sign

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at the very least faculty wants to know more

dawn radish
thorny harbor
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elmo thumbnail

frank mica
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late feb/early march is kinda too late i feel

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they cant really hold it againt you tho.. so just email them and send them some sort of proof you have that will be public later

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that case they know already and dont need to check

distant talon
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what has occurred lil bro

misty root
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bro picked the latest of late dates

frank mica
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ya ig then it should be fine.. but since you already know there really isnt any disadvantage telling them now, and showing your proof ig

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bruvv.. i still havent gotten an interview so youre better off

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ya ya im not stressin just smt i noticed lol

misty root
frank mica
sturdy egret
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Guys I just cooked myself I think around the 30 minute mark my interviewer had to go but didn't want to interrupt me so she waited until the end of my yapping and tried to interject but I didn't pick up and continued to fire questions at her for like 7 minutes until I finally realized and was like "oh sorry wait go ahead" and turns out she had another interview 😭 I have negative social awareness

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She was talking super fast too so I should've realized šŸ’€

lyric ocean
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why did the interviewer schedule 2 interviews so close together bro

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sorry that happened lol

dawn radish
fossil wadi
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Guys is there a chance that they accept who got deffered?

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Because I heard that's a implicit rejection

muted bluff
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they would have rejected you if they wanted to reject you

void aspen
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they'd just reject you

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they dgaf

muted bluff
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if harvard admissions cared about feelings

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it wouldn't be an ivy league university

misty root
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bouta do my harvard interview while im sick šŸ”„

unborn bear
unborn bear
high dome
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Do yall send thank yous to your interviewer the same night (3-4 hours later) or the next day?

devout wave
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I did same night

vast vigil
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Was i supposed to be doing this

high dome
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I’ve heard interviewers that say they like it - just shows character idk probably doesn’t change anything

muted bluff
tiny epoch
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guys do u know when the last interview are sent out?

void aspen
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I generally did it 1 hour after

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You have to remember most are doing like 20-30 kids and they usually write their report right after when shit is fresh

fading matrix
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anyone from charlotte get an interview?

lost dawn
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but like anyways i think harvard does interviews until like march

fading matrix
lost dawn
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i got mine like almost right away

fading matrix
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oh

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then why did u say no lol

lost dawn
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cus im not from charlotte

rare palm
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i just want another interview from someone. idgaf who. idgaf when

fading matrix
misty root
cosmic sparrow
eager moth
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guys did harvard send off interviews

muted bluff
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i had mine in january

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but you might still be able to receive one in the next week or so

lethal owl
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i had mine last sunday

thorny harbor
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How come nobody commented on the thread thumbnail

lethal owl
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dont know what that means

lost dawn
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why would u post that creature.

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no trigger warning too.

thorny harbor
thorny harbor
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There was a guy who did red light green light with an Elmo puppet at the party and I ran up and grabbed the puppet

rain totem
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how does it look on the portal if u get an interview?

muted bluff
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here a scuffed landscape view on mobile

vast vigil
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It did not show my interviewer on there i had to wait for an email from him

muted bluff
uncut sail
tiny epoch
spiral valley
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umm yall when am i supposed to write a loci

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is next week too late

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ik its alr kinda late : /

uneven hare
uneven hare
uneven hare
muted bluff
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your options are do it rn or do it later and have it be later 😭

woeful yoke
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Anybody got ao interview

worn kite
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ooh

obtuse mural
tiny epoch
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is it too late to submit academic work

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i just did do u think they’ll still review it?

muted bluff
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i think they do committee next week

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but the person to ask would be BG

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i think that this is still the time to submit stuff and your AO will definitely notice (assuming you're in committee 😭 )

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GOOD LUC

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i had mine like

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january 13 or something

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if you want to hear about the qs i got id love to share

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those that i remember

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yeah it was the 18 i checked and i got the request like the week b4

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its because although my school is public we kinda have an arrangement w harvard

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since we're close and theres hella alumni

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so like 10000% availability

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ok i got:
tell me abt yourself
what is your connection to harvard (this is why harvard)
why major/future plans
what's a time you changed your thinking about something
facing challenges
what type of community do you want to find at harvard (slash college in general)?

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i think standard interview length is 35 mins but mine went over bcs she had time

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she was REALLY big on asking me like what kind of community i wanted to find at harvard which really tripped me up to be honest

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and she also wanted to hear a lot about my future plans and why

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she did not really gaf about why harvard

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like "why harvard" is obviously really easy

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let me think of any other qs i got

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she was also big on the liberal arts

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and i think i didnt express enough openness to trying new subjects or whatever, i think i appeared pretty focused on my major

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also she did a "anything else you want to say"

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OH and she asked about my school environment

muted bluff
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it kinda carried me all throughout hs

misty root
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photosynthesis memory

lost dawn
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i got these questions:

  • tell me abt urself
  • do u think if u grew up in the city compared to the rural area ur from u’d be different today (targeted i think since im rural)
  • tell me abt what it was like growing up in ur family
  • why harvard
  • why major
  • if u could change any outcome of an event in ur life what would it be and why
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if that helps as well

lost dawn
muted bluff
lost dawn
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my princeton interviewer told me we could be friends also

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and that i can text him whenever i need life advice

muted bluff
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harvard, yale, pton literally HYPSM bound girl

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this is the true 1 on personality

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like da

lost dawn
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crison

muted bluff
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if i were a harvard ao

lost dawn
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crison

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crimson

muted bluff
lost dawn
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omg Habbachisqfeathervard

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she def was a family centered person

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i genuinely dont know

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dont know how yale went for almost 3 hrs

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like these people work too???

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am i not disrupting their work??

muted bluff
lost dawn
#

i like pizza and so did she

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and i like farmer’s markets and so did she

#

thats real shit

muted bluff
#

lowkey my harvard interview felt so evaluative

lost dawn
#

yes heavy on these 2

muted bluff
#

and i think i would have hit it off with my stanny interviewer but she was literally a quant and had to run from her lunch break

misty root
#

surrounded by sweats

lost dawn
#

i think yale especially has become super focused on like

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wanting u to really get excited for yale

muted bluff
lost dawn
#

and using it more so like

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seeing who u r #1

muted bluff
lost dawn
#

but also encouraging u to pick yale

muted bluff
#

you dont get "excited" for harvard

lost dawn
#

omg me when i stopped dead in my tracks and went ā€œwait this is a dealbreaker. do u guys also have a farmer’s market thats lowk good.ā€

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i love my farmer’s market at home

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and im gonna cry

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i cant leave it 😭

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i have so many friends w the vendors

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lowk chill

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esp if its a senior

misty root
lost dawn
#

i wrote about farmers markets in like

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i think it was harvard, stanford, brown, yale

muted bluff
#

no

lost dawn
#

i also wrote about calico critters a lot of the time

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icl i recycled every harvard one from columbia 😭

muted bluff
#

they do not gaf

lost dawn
#

i spent the most amount of time working w jeni, youtiao, and whixler

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on columbia

#

that i just used all of thsoe for harvard

#

i fuck w a2c heavy

#

i was getting so many essay reviews not costing me $200 oop

muted bluff
#

for harvard

lost dawn
#

id never let my parents see my essays

muted bluff
misty root
muted bluff
lost dawn
#

i lit had uni read them like

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2 hrs before submitting

#

he caught one of the biggest red flags i was abt to submit 😭

muted bluff
#

i wish i had been pushier and had more ppl read them lol

#

but i didnt

#

so we ball

lost dawn
#

it was lowk nice bc once i had like someone review every ā€œtypeā€ ig

#

when it was recycling the ideas + concepts were fine

#

like once i got that ā€œdragā€ framework i showed u feather it was ez to use for other schools

#

brown 3 word was so cute

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i put like

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ambient lighting enthusiast

#

my ass was like

#

i was so stuck on those like

#

basic descriptors that i was like

#

well i feel stupid putting these

muted bluff
#

what the hell

#

i put basic descriptors

misty root
#

y do so many ppl use enthusiast

lost dawn
#

i felt like it showed what i was passionate abt but not like in a way that screamed

#

im saying im passionate

misty root
#

maybe

lost dawn
#

its kinda like usc

misty root
#

I had it in one of my drafts for Stanford but then I deleted it

lost dawn
#

cus usc doesnt rlly use ur short takes that deep

misty root
#

usc short takes so dumb

#

wrote about bill nye and some other crap and still got in

ripe palm
#

when is the interview deadline?

lost dawn
ripe palm
#

reddit is saying march 10th but i know in the past it was march 1st

lost dawn
ripe palm
#

haha

#

thanks

lyric tundra
#

did anyone submit test scores on the common app still have this? on the portal

#

worried that they didnt get my score from the common app (as some other schools, i.e. northeaster n& rice didnt get my score even tho i wrote it on the common)

silk trench
#

Did any internationals receive an interview from Harvard ?

tame sigil
#

chat am i omega cooked if i got an interview lowkirkepsteinuinely 3 days ago

rare palm
#

wtf. no you got an interview that's good

#

i haven't even gotten one yet

pliant flame
#

im p sure they do prescreening for interviews

#

i applied rea so idrk

vagrant hearth
#

harvard def does prescreen

lost dawn
#

in 2023 when the admissions files came out

#

w/ the lawsuit

#

aos basically assigned applicants 1-4 for an interview and if u received a 1 that means u needed an interview asap and 4 is dont need one type scale

vagrant hearth
#

I could kinda tell bc stanford and princeton ppl from my school we all got interviews at the same time and some shared interviewers. But for Harvard it was scattered with many ppl not getting interviews at all

#

so i dont think its based on availability

#

one person in my school got AO interview too

muted bluff
spiral sentinel
#

anyone know how late they send out interviews šŸ„€

vagrant hearth
#

I did rea tho and didnt get an interview I'm expecting a rejection

vagrant hearth
lyric ocean
#

oh wut i thought harvard specifically didnt prescreen

#

i didnt think so bc i literally got an email from my interviewer on january 15th

#

wait r u guys talking about ao interviews

#

nvm then 😭

distant talon
lyric ocean
#

even for alumni interviews?

#

damn

#

ig i was just lucky enough to get my application reviewed early

#

but lowk my interview was kinda weird

#

like im pretty sure my answers were fine but he did spend a significant amount of time downplaying harvard

devout wave
#

i got my application reviewed early too doesn’t mean much

devout wave
#

they’re just like that on purpose

lyric ocean
#

oh and also calling bill gates a nepo baby LOL

#

he was da like "i hate bill gates"

#

he was in the same class so

muted bluff
lyric ocean
#

Really

#

My Princeton and Stanford interviewers really loved their time

#

When I asked my Harvard interviewer how the resources helped him for his career shift (indicated by his 2 wildly different majors) he just said plainly ā€œit didn’tā€

muted bluff
#

oh yeah but everyone on a2c shits on their ivy league school

lyric ocean
#

Oh maybe

#

Yea

muted bluff
#

she switched from art professor to tech

#

and was like yeah it basically didnt help

lyric ocean
#

Loool that’s funny

lost dawn
# lyric ocean Oh maybe

if everyone enjoyed every single part of their school then everyone would b winning the lottery

lyric ocean
#

I get that but iirc I couldn’t really get him to name one thing that he was kinda enthusiastic about at Harvard

#

This was an hour long phone call like a month ago tho so my memory may be foggy

lost dawn
#

i asked them whats something about ur experience at [school] that was bad and u wish u or the school could have changed

#

and what their biggest regrets were

#

😭

muted bluff
#

yeah i asked all of mine what they would do differently

misty root
#

i asked about food šŸ˜‹

timber fern
timber fern
#

Oh ok thanks

#

Has anyone had one and can lmk what type of questions they got?

#

Chisq did u get one or know someone who got one?

timber fern
#

Ok thank you!!! If anyone has any specific questions they’d received I’d appreciate that

barren swan
#

anyone get an ao interview?

lost dawn
#

she ended up getting waitlisted i think

uneven hare
uneven hare
uneven hare
#

tough to say, but logically that would make sense

lyric ocean
#

damn ao interview is cracked

muted bluff
#

it’s certainly a sign that you are in committee but it’s also a sign your application is controversial in committee and the AO needs more info in order to advocate for you

lost dawn
#

!bgastro

simple smeltBOT
muted bluff
#

indeed! they have not done LLs yet

lost dawn
#

but i agree w feather

#

omg feather rochester sent me an email saying decisions r gonna be posted soon

#

im not ready for rd

muted bluff
#

good luckkk

#

i believe

lost dawn
#

the one state school i applied to LMFAO

muted bluff
#

you could have a mattress and get it stolen by your roommate 🤩🤩

lost dawn
frigid quiver
#

Is there an estimate on the percentage of admitted international students that had interviews?

#

Cause 2 ppl from my school got interviewed a while ago and they’re super strong while many other equally strong students and I weren’t interviewed so I’m assuming I’m cooked (everyone got deferred from an Ivy ED or REA). I’m in a very alumni dense region btw

muted bluff
#

like interviews really don’t matter that much at all

#

we look at them a lot because it seems to be ā€œmerit basedā€ and an indicator of how you are doing in the process because of the slight prescreen but what’s truly merit-based is your acceptance

#

we have like 5 weeks just to enjoy your senior year haha

lyric ocean
frigid quiver
#

True true

#

Did you get admitted REA or are you applying RD

lyric ocean
#

bruh if theyre gonna put almost everything in considered then they might as well split that category

muted bluff
frigid quiver
muted bluff
frigid quiver
frigid quiver
lost dawn
# lyric ocean

im gonna be real with u. cds is a way for colleges to throw their admissions info together to seem transparent. it basically is a way for colleges to claim to be transparent when they never are. never take the cds for its face value

#

i remember letter s girl got hers in march so id assume around then LMFAO

frigid quiver
#

Idk abt Harvard but I’ve already seen Columbia and Yale LLs on Reddit

lost dawn
#

but she is an anomaly…

frigid quiver
#

Neither šŸ’€

lost dawn
#

columbia ll are not out

#

no way

#

columbia ll have historically always come out in march

frigid quiver
#

Could’ve been fake

rare palm
#

still waiting for harvard interview🚬 oh my lord

frigid quiver
lost dawn
frigid quiver
#

But like

#

It’s Harvard so

lyric ocean
frigid quiver
#

I’m not expecting much lol

rare palm
#

idk i'm lowk like

lost dawn
lyric ocean
#

this year we got a yale likely too and the guy is lowk studious

lost dawn
#

2-3 weeks before decisions

rare palm
#

if i got an interview for yale. which also prescreens. what's stopping me from getting harvard.

frigid quiver
#

I haven’t gotten Yale or duke interviews either but neither has anyone from my school

lost dawn
#

so also consider that

frigid quiver
#

Ofc

lost dawn
#

im scared

#

what if i go to duke

#

and see swara ex..

rare palm
lost dawn
#

what if swara ex is on ā€œprincetonā€ and finds me..

rare palm
#

swara revenge arc

frigid quiver
#

My school is somewhat of a feeder tho

#

But yeah

lyric ocean
#

im hoping i get a duke interview between now and march

#

if not then oh well

rare palm
#

maybe i'm a THREE on their harvard interviewer rating thing or whatever

#

assignments due by march 1st....

#

or i like

lost dawn
#

im like

rare palm
#

counts on my fingers

frigid quiver
lost dawn
#

90% sure my interviewer told me

#

which number i was rated

muted bluff
rare palm
#

what did they say lowk

frigid quiver
muted bluff
frigid quiver
muted bluff
frigid quiver
#

I applied to SFS I’d be pretty stoked if I got in but my interview was meh but I think cooked on the essays

muted bluff
#

i think my essays were the strongest yeah

lyric ocean
muted bluff
#

good fortune

lost dawn
muted bluff
frigid quiver
muted bluff
#

idk where my dl is going

#

my dl and i are like brokeback mountain fr

frigid quiver
rare palm
#

And like. harvard

lost dawn
#

ugh

#

columbia ao whoever u are

#

u were so close to seeing some amazing media ā¤ļø

muted bluff
frigid quiver
rare palm
#

Ugh yea i need stanford too

muted bluff
#

ive had gtown, harvard, stanford

rare palm
#

i don't think i'm getting stanford though bc no one from the city an hour away from me gets stanford

muted bluff
#

tufts is playing hard to get

#

but one way or another i’m going to get them

lyric ocean
#

i think all mine r availability (stanford princeton mit harvard)

frigid quiver
lyric ocean
#

wai not harvard

rare palm
#

The only ao i've ever met in person was like

#

One of the cornell humec aos. at a college fair. and i really wish i applied to humec bc she was so kind

lost dawn
#

i met a northwestern ao in person

#

we talked for like three hours abt his life

#

and everything he does

lyric ocean
frigid quiver
#

They love to vibe

lyric ocean
#

yea

rare palm
#

i dont think anyone from my school got into their ed choice

frigid quiver
lyric ocean
lost dawn
#

and he has my email and he told me to tell him when i applied

#

and i did

lyric ocean
#

we had 2 cornell and that upenn i think

rare palm
frigid quiver
#

And a bunch of deferrals

#

And some rejections

rare palm
#

Our decision account just started posting stuff and everyone's going to sunys or cc LOL

lyric ocean
rare palm
#

Im upstate though

lyric ocean
#

o

#

im in LI

frigid quiver
rare palm
#

Ohhh

#

I hate long island

frigid quiver
#

I really hope I get into NW

rare palm
#

Praying for you

frigid quiver
#

their econ department is awesome

lyric ocean
#

i mean our school isnt like hyper competitive but the smart ppl are very smart so

frigid quiver
#

Did you do the rock essay

lost dawn
#

i didnt

muted bluff
lyric ocean
frigid quiver
#

I did the rock essay and the what project would you start essay

rare palm
#

STOP

lyric ocean
#

loool

frigid quiver
lyric ocean
#

i talked about some coop program between nw and some national lab that was very close to evanston but not in chicago

lost dawn
#

i did the uh

lyric ocean
#

ngl it was so hard to talk about the benefits of chicago without saying "i like nw bc its close to chicago" 😭

frigid quiver
frigid quiver
#

I like how it’s by the lake but like surely it can’t be warm enough most of the time

lyric ocean
#

yea i lowk got catfished by all the campus pics

lost dawn
#

community + background

#

r the 2 i did

#

outside of the required one

#

so i did 3 supps total

frigid quiver
#

yea fairs

#

Same

rare palm
lost dawn
#

i lowk only applied cus i have a friend there and she is doing archery and lowk a bitch gotta learn something niche and i feel like i could do that right

#

i could not do uchi tho

#

i feel like evanston is a good mix of city + suburban

muted bluff
lyric ocean
rare palm
#

Recruited for rugby is crazy i didn't even know you could do that

muted bluff
#

weve had 9 ivies though so they’re not THAT special

muted bluff
#

but he’s really good

lyric ocean
#

damnnn 9 ivies already

muted bluff
#

for that

rare palm
#

AMOURU KEEPS STEALING MY GIFS

#

.........

lost dawn
rare palm
#

us on our way to YALE*

lost dawn
#

YABBAANYACHISQE

rare palm
#

Sorry...in the harvard thread

muted bluff
rare palm
#

YABBAANYACHISQEā¤ļø

muted bluff
#

i hate my school do much

rare palm
muted bluff
lost dawn
muted bluff
#

there’s 0 opportunities here

lyric ocean
muted bluff
#

(still public but)

muted bluff
lyric ocean
#

actually theres triplets in our grade that have like some crazy harvard legacy

rare palm
#

Oh my god can i stop getting ivyleagueroadmap on my tl. What do you mean yale is kicking out the middle class. Do you hear yourself

muted bluff
lyric ocean
#

i only like brandon

lost dawn
#

ā€œmiddle classā€ and hes talking about kids making 300k who can pay for him but not for college

rare palm
#

brandon's scaring me..he said that cornell deferred students are unlikely to get accepted in rd round and he didn't explain himself at all for it

muted bluff
muted bluff
lyric ocean
#

i think he said the same about columbia in another tiktok as well 😭

lost dawn
#

i need brandon’s gym routine

rare palm
rare palm
lost dawn
#

like oh my god i need it

rare palm
#

😭

muted bluff
lost dawn
#

IM SO SRS

#

IM SO SRS IM /SRS

#

IM GONNA TONE INDICATE THAT

rare palm
#

we're on first name basis bc we're Chill..

#

HELP

lyric ocean
lost dawn
#

the goat

lyric ocean
#

lowk cracked swe too

#

paypal + google 🤩

lyric ocean
#

😭

#

like how urgently u need an interview or something

lost dawn
#

it sounded like a 1 but maybe a 2

#

but she never out right told me it was just what she was talking to me abt in the after procedures that most interviewers say

lyric ocean
#

daamn

#

wait u got ur interviewer listed on ur portal in january or they emailed/contacted u in janueary

lyric ocean
#

ah

muted bluff
#

i was NOT the best one interviewed

#

my interviewer did not vibe with me

#

but we ball fr

lyric ocean
#

yea my interviewer asked me a lot about like my childhood and upbringing

lyric ocean
#

he told me to tell me about myself at first so i just kinda started talking about my career through high school and he just kept saying "further back" until we got to when i was like 5 years old 😭

#

was kinda fun tho

muted bluff
#

im crine

#

this did not happen for me

#

yall interviwers are nice

lyric ocean
#

damn both my harvard and my pton interviewer asked about my brother, and when i said he went to columbia they both said i have a lot to live up to

#

like word for word 😭

lyric ocean
#

everyhing from there was just eh

muted bluff
#

i like being an older child for college

#

less pressure

lyric ocean
#

bruhh this is crazy 😭

lyric ocean
#

wtffff

#

hating on a harvard daughter 😭

#

oh wait that reminds me

#

my pton interviewer's daughter and my brother were in the same high school class and were stand partners in orchestra

#

kinda crazy

muted bluff
#

harvard daughter or princeton son fr

lyric ocean
#

fr

#

princeton was my brothers top choice too

celest dew
#

Fr

misty root
#

am i supposed to be hoping to get a ao interview

muted bluff
#

no

#

i think most admitted students dont get one

uneven hare
#

it’s so rare

#

and not necessarily indicative either

lost dawn
#

youtiao i havent seen u in a hot second

#

hru!

uneven hare
#

eg i got one and didnt get in

uneven hare
#

also i still read everything there are just less people for me to tell them that they’re wrong answer questions since everybody already applied

lost dawn
muted bluff
#

glad thats no longer the case

uneven hare
timber fern
#

do likely letters all come out at the same time/have they all come out already?

frank mica
#

like i think theres so few

#

dont even think abt them

potent inlet
#

completely random but there was this scam ig account that i realized was following a ton of a2c-ers and i was wondering if any of yall also got a request from the account chen_writers8?

thorny harbor
potent inlet
void aspen
#

whens ivy day

dusky trellis
#

March 26th

rose yarrow
#

yay..........

tiny sable
muted bluff
#

they do

eager moth
#

does harvard give interviews?

muted bluff
#

yes

eager moth
#

hmm cool

#

like uh dyk if everyone gets it or how it works?

muted bluff
#

it is a slightly prescreened interview that is assigned primarily based on availability

#

so

#

basically

#

most people will get one

eager moth
#

am i fried if i dont got one yet šŸ’€

muted bluff
#

check your portal

#

you should have been assigned one by now

eager moth
#

uh

#

idk how to check

#

it seems i dont?

muted bluff
#

yeah if its not in the portal you dont have one

eager moth
#

ah alr

muted bluff
#

its okay not every admitted applicant will get one

eager moth
#

well it was a good run lol

eager moth
#

i wrote those essays with a 102 fever i aint expecting much

#

dyk how the prescreening works?

muted bluff
#

not really

eager moth
muted bluff
#

@lost dawn knows a bit you can ask him

eager moth
#

wait do i have to self report test score eve if i did on ca i js saw a option for it šŸ’€

#

lowkey like the second time i am on ts portal

muted bluff
#

nah its ok

eager moth
#

oh alr

muted bluff
#

if u report on ca should be ok

eager moth
#

alr cool

#

thx tho

eager moth
#

wait how does interview work for intl app that live in us? or is ts not a factor

lost dawn
eager moth
#

yea i am interantional for citizenship

rare palm
eager moth
#

but tax is from us

rare palm
#

whatever...i didn't even want to go to harvard ANYWAYS!

lost dawn