2011-2012 Harvard Application Thread

Discover Your Odds of Getting into Medical School
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Hoodat said:
They are not. I just spoke with someone at admissions. Sorry, this is disappointing for me as well.
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what a shame. i even put 'Jeremy Lin Fan' as one of my ECs. highly disappointed that this strategy did not pan out.
 
Does anyone know when Harvard's second look weekend will be this year? I am trying to make travel plans for the spring, and on the off chance that I am accepted, I am just curious
 
At the interview orientation the dean said the first week of march was when they would start coming out.


Edit: yesterday
 
omelas said:
Does anyone know when Harvard's second look weekend will be this year? I am trying to make travel plans for the spring, and on the off chance that I am accepted, I am just curious
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GoHogsGo said:
At the interview orientation the dean said the first week of march was when they would start coming out.


Edit: yesterday
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I don't know about second look weekend, but I'm sure that will only be announced once acceptances are offered. Acceptances won't be offered until late March though, according to the admissions office.
 
OK, thank you for checking and sharing info. Good luck to you!
 
For any current students:

At the interview day a first year told me that if your combined family income is less than 120,000/year, HMS would consider your family contribution to be zero. Can anyone confirm this? Also: I know that HMS has a base loan that everyone is required to have as part of their finaid package ... after the base loan is subtracted from COA, is the rest considered need if the EFC is zero (and does HMS give need in the form of scholarship or a combination of scholarship and loan)?

Thanks a bunch!
 
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/finaid/

From this website:

"HMS Dean Jeffrey Flier remains committed to taking steps to reduce the cost of a four-year medical education. Parents with incomes of $120,000 or less with assets typical for those income levels are no longer expected to contribute to the cost of their children attending HMS. In addition, this initiative eliminates from the family income calculation typical before-tax retirement savings."

Sounds like a great deal!
 
Saragam said:
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/finaid/

From this website:

"HMS Dean Jeffrey Flier remains committed to taking steps to reduce the cost of a four-year medical education. Parents with incomes of $120,000 or less with assets typical for those income levels are no longer expected to contribute to the cost of their children attending HMS. In addition, this initiative eliminates from the family income calculation typical before-tax retirement savings."

Sounds like a great deal!
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Best thing is this extends to international students, too! Trying not to get my hopes up here, though...
 
Saragam said:
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/finaid/

From this website:

"HMS Dean Jeffrey Flier remains committed to taking steps to reduce the cost of a four-year medical education. Parents with incomes of $120,000 or less with assets typical for those income levels are no longer expected to contribute to the cost of their children attending HMS. In addition, this initiative eliminates from the family income calculation typical before-tax retirement savings."

Sounds like a great deal!
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It is a great deal. 👍 But it's actually not so different than other medical schools with great need-based financial aid (Hopkins/Yale/Penn come to mind, I'm sure there are others). I imagine most of these schools have some sort of cutoff point where if your family's income is below X, you won't have to pay a family contribution in addition to whatever fixed amount you're paying/loaning yourself (the "unit loan", about $25-26k? Can't remember exact number..)

Still, it's really affordable, and to my knowledge Harvard is the only one that advertises their cutoff point on their website. Yale might have mentioned theirs on the interview day, but I can't remember the number. :laugh:
 
sharpie1006 said:
It is a great deal. 👍 But it's actually not so different than other medical schools with great need-based financial aid (Hopkins/Yale/Penn come to mind, I'm sure there are others). I imagine most of these schools have some sort of cutoff point where if your family's income is below X, you won't have to pay a family contribution in addition to whatever fixed amount you're paying/loaning yourself (the "unit loan", about $25-26k? Can't remember exact number..)

Still, it's really affordable, and to my knowledge Harvard is the only one that advertises their cutoff point on their website. Yale might have mentioned theirs on the interview day, but I can't remember the number. :laugh:
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Yeah - I guess the challenge is finding that cut-off ... I talked to students on my Hopkins interview who gave numbers WAY less (but I haven't found any evidence on-line to support it) ... for example, instead of 120 they said it was 75 for Hopkins. Penn didn't mention a cut-off, but I have heard they are very generous with their finaid ... especially with the new Perelman donation. I guess we will see how things play out ... haha we have to get accepted first!
 
EleanorAutumn said:
Yeah - I guess the challenge is finding that cut-off ... I talked to students on my Hopkins interview who gave numbers WAY less (but I haven't found any evidence on-line to support it) ... for example, instead of 120 they said it was 75 for Hopkins. Penn didn't mention a cut-off, but I have heard they are very generous with their finaid ... especially with the new Perelman donation. I guess we will see how things play out ... haha we have to get accepted first!
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The Perelman donation was this year. You have no idea how much it will boost financial aid for the average student because new financial aid awards have not yet been made.

The financial aid at HMS is significantly different from Hopkins insofar as Hopkins offers no aid to internationals while HMS/Yale/Penn do.
 
Omg, you guys...March is coming next week. I'm so nervous. x____x
 
huyem12 said:
Omg, you guys...March is coming next week. I'm so nervous. x____x
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Ha, don't be! Whatever happens, happens... It's completely out of our control at this point. But, best of luck!:luck:
 
The week of March 12 could be considered the 3rd week in March.....just sayin decisions might not be as far away as some think. But then again I'm an optimist.
 
For those of us waiting for this school, it is almost certain that we've at least gotten into one medical school at this point. Let's remember those who were not as fortunate as we are, some not even given the chance to interview, and be grateful for our situation. Regardless of what happens in the next two weeks, we WILL become physicians one day and save lives!
Relax and best of luck to all!
 
limebetelgeuse said:
lol and once we hit march you'll still have another 3+ weeks until decisions come out.
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I know it says "by the third week of March" on the website, but we were told "first week of March" at my interview day. Can anyone else confirm this?
 
protonate said:
For those of us waiting for this school, it is almost certain that we've at least gotten into one medical school at this point. Let's remember those who were not as fortunate as we are, some not even given the chance to interview, and be grateful for our situation. Regardless of what happens in the next two weeks, we WILL become physicians one day and save lives!
Relax and best of luck to all!
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+1 👍
 
Accepted!!! W00t w00t. Oh wait wrong thread. Didn't mean to get the adrenaline rush goin 🙂 🙂
 
eHombre said:
I know it says "by the third week of March" on the website, but we were told "first week of March" at my interview day. Can anyone else confirm this?
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They also said first week of March on my day too
 
eHombre said:
I know it says "by the third week of March" on the website, but we were told "first week of March" at my interview day. Can anyone else confirm this?
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I was hit with a rejection around the second week of March last year.
 
Did anyone send a letter of interest/intent post interview? I asked a harvard student if that is something recommended, and he said " Dude, its Harvard. Who wouldnt be interested."...
 
Can we organize some kind of public punishment for the fake accepted post?
 
protonate said:
For those of us waiting for this school, it is almost certain that we've at least gotten into one medical school at this point. Let's remember those who were not as fortunate as we are, some not even given the chance to interview, and be grateful for our situation. Regardless of what happens in the next two weeks, we WILL become physicians one day and save lives!
Relax and best of luck to all!
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👍
:luck:
 
omelas said:
Does anyone know when Harvard's second look weekend will be this year? I am trying to make travel plans for the spring, and on the off chance that I am accepted, I am just curious
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A student at HMS told me that she had heard it would be April 19-21, FWIW. Can't guarantee that but it might be helpful info.
 
protonate said:
For those of us waiting for this school, it is almost certain that we've at least gotten into one medical school at this point. Let's remember those who were not as fortunate as we are, some not even given the chance to interview, and be grateful for our situation. Regardless of what happens in the next two weeks, we WILL become physicians one day and save lives!
Relax and best of luck to all!
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+1

Protonate I like your statement. Here is to Doctorate of Medicine, MD2016!
 
T-minus 1 week till march! :luck:

Any guesses to what day we're expected to hear back? :laugh:
 
I think people heard back as early as March 3rd with acceptances. Rejections take a bit longer to go out though.....
 
So according to SDN's forum from last year, it looks like acceptance emails were sent between 7 and 8pm on the first Thursday in March. Waitlist emails came out around noon the following day, and rejection emails were sent around 5pm. If that pattern repeats itself this year (do we really have any reason to think it will?) that means we should all hear something between dinner time tomorrow and Friday at 5. 😱 Trying to stay calm...
 
I wish we had a good model incorporating the calendar date, the day of the weekly, the phase of the moon and various weather variables.
 
Member3094 said:
I wish we had a good model incorporating the calendar date, the day of the weekly, the phase of the moon and various weather variables.
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3-16-2009 - monday, waning gibbous, 32-39 F, overcast/cloudly/partly cloudy
3-15-2010 - monday, waning crescent, 39-45 F, rain/fog/overcast
3-3-2011 - thursday, waning crescent, 12-29 F, partly cloudy

The next waning phase is 3/9/2012.
 
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chronicidal said:
3-16-2009 - monday, waning gibbous, 32-39 F, overcast/cloudly/partly cloudy
3-15-2010 - monday, waning crescent, 39-45 F, rain/fog/overcast
3-3-2011 - thursday, waning crescent, 12-29 F, partly cloudy

The next waning phase is 3/9/2012.
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+1 This literally made me :laugh:
 
I think (or hope) we will receive an email by 7 PM tomorrow
 
How can you be sure that the reason they were released on March 3rd was because it was the first Thursday of March. Perhaps it was just a coincidence. In any case, hope you're right.
 
Omega3MD said:
How can you be sure that the reason they were released on March 3rd was because it was the first Thursday of March. Perhaps it was just a coincidence. In any case, hope you're right.
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I'm sure because it was because March 3rd was a cloudy day in Boston with a waning crescent moon phase.
 
They may well make a change for this year: release the decision in a snowy day instead of a cloudy phase 🙂
 
Pure speculation, mostly driven by the fact that I *want* it to be tomorrow and will latch onto whatever makes sense.

Also, we all know the Mayans spelled it out. Come on.
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zentilex said:
Solve.
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Literally, 2009-2010= -1.
Maybe T-1 days since the day you posted your original post, which would be March 1st.

March 16 (2009) -March 15 (2010)= March 1st


Zentilex, are you trying to hint about a March 1st release date? 🙂
 
Since it is obvious that the answers are coming out today - anybody notice how all the interview invite emails for HMS were sent at 2:00 PM +/- 2 minutes?
 
Member3094 said:
Since it is obvious that the answers are coming out today - anybody notice how all the interview invite emails for HMS were sent at 2:00 PM +/- 2 minutes?
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Wasn't the case for me. (11pm)
 
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Member3094 said:
Since it is obvious that the answers are coming out today - anybody notice how all the interview invite emails for HMS were sent at 2:00 PM +/- 2 minutes?
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I received my invite at 6:10pm...
 
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