2013-2014 Harvard Application Thread

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Do you guys know if there is a trend from old threads when we will be notified on Monday? I was trying to look back but I cant find any timestamps for some reason :/
 
Meredith92 said:
Do you guys know if there is a trend from old threads when we will be notified on Monday? I was trying to look back but I cant find any timestamps for some reason :/
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Lol. Let the speculation begin! (no offense meant)

As for timestamps, just hover you mouse over the date and a time stamp will pop up.
 
medicalhope said:
Lol. Let the speculation begin! (no offense meant)

As for timestamps, just hover you mouse over the date and a time stamp will pop up.
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oooo okay!! Thanks for your help! haha I was just curious if there is a known time so that we dont have be nervous all day monday (still getting over the craziness from the columbia thread).
 
Meredith92 said:
oooo okay!! Thanks for your help! haha I was just curious if there is a known time so that we dont have be nervous all day monday (still getting over the craziness from the columbia thread).
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My buddy who was accepted two years ago that his came in at 4pm via email
 
medicalhope said:
I wonder if all emails, regardless of outcome, are sent at the same time... Does anyone know?
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Hey, dont mean to be rude, but stop worrying and please keep your anxiety to yourself. save that for those who dont have acceptances to 20 amazing schools already
 
yankees26 said:
Hey, dont mean to be rude, but stop worrying and please keep your anxiety to yourself. save that for those who dont have acceptances to 20 amazing schools already
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Oh come on, that isn't fair. If you don't want to get anxious by reading about other applicants' anxiety, you can avoid this thread until after Monday. We all can have dream schools and feel nervous when the time comes. Personally, I find SDN school threads to be a great outlet for my crazy energy linked to this application cycle....though I get plenty of that from Columbia right now 🙂
 
medicalhope said:
I wonder if all emails, regardless of outcome, are sent at the same time... Does anyone know?
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I bet they are sent out in batches, otherwise their servers may have a hard time keeping up...or they are all sent out at once but may arrive in some inboxes faster than in others.
 
yankees26 said:
Hey, dont mean to be rude, but stop worrying and please keep your anxiety to yourself. save that for those who dont have acceptances to 20 amazing schools already
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I agree with kyamh. The reason I made a SDN account was because it seemed like a welcoming place to vent my stress and sympathize with people in the same boat. All the threads get crazy around decision time, and in a weird way it helps the time go by...


kyamh: yeah, you are probably right! Good luck!
 
medicalhope said:
I agree with kyamh. The reason I made a SDN account was because it seemed like a welcoming place to vent my stress and sympathize with people in the same boat. All the threads get crazy around decision time, and in a weird way it helps the time go by...


kyamh: yeah, you are probably right! Good luck!
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+1 I think we are a great community and it is nice to have a place to sympathize with others going through the same thing. Lets keep it positive 🙂
 
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yankees26 said:
Hey, dont mean to be rude, but stop worrying and please keep your anxiety to yourself. save that for those who dont have acceptances to 20 amazing schools already
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Woah, totally unnecessary. Everyone's entitled to worry.

I feel your pain meredith92! Harvard is a super dream school for me and I pray we ALL get good news! I'm freaking out too though!
 
kyamh said:
Oh come on, that isn't fair. If you don't want to get anxious by reading about other applicants' anxiety, you can avoid this thread until after Monday. We all can have dream schools and feel nervous when the time comes. Personally, I find SDN school threads to be a great outlet for my crazy energy linked to this application cycle....though I get plenty of that from Columbia right now 🙂
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Agreed. Can't wait for Monday.
 
phylosopher said:
Its great to see some of you from the Columbia thread over here @Meredith92 @kyamh @yankees26. What are you guys planning to pass the time? :corny:
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Hoping that Harvard will give me better news 🙂 Actually, I did plan ahead. I invited a close friend from high school to visit me this weekend, so, with any luck, I'll be plenty occupied.
 
carlton said:
why is everyone saying monday? 😱
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Seems like Harvard has a history of releasing decisions on the first Monday of March. We also know that someone from admissions said they were aiming for the first week of March. Here's to hoping for some good news for all of us! (...especially us non-acceptees from Columbia 😛 )
 
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Does anyone know what the acceptance statistics post-interview are for HMS?
 
yankees26 said:
Does anyone know what the acceptance statistics post-interview are for HMS?
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Unfortunately, not super encouraging. Last year, they interviewed 918 applicants and accepted 226 for a class of 164. Assuming the 226 also includes wait list acceptances, it's gonna be a tight race tomorrow.
 
phylosopher said:
Its great to see some of you from the Columbia thread over here @Meredith92 @kyamh @yankees26 and @Trayshawn :hello:. What are you guys planning to pass the time? :corny:
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Made a super busy weekend... trying to make sure I have zero free time so that I have little opportunity to be freaking out/checking this thread🙂

I think the worst thing is my silly brain always makes up "what if" scenarios. I just cant wait to know my options (whether I hear good or bad news) so I can finally know where I'll be next year!
 
I can't decide whether having a NP and an HST shot makes it that much more likely that I will get accepted or that much more likely that I'll get rejected... Does anyone ever get invited for just HST? I really loved what I saw at NP, but I kinda think that HST is the only reason I got a NP interview...
 
kyamh said:
I can't decide whether having a NP and an HST shot makes it that much more likely that I will get accepted or that much more likely that I'll get rejected... Does anyone ever get invited for just HST? I really loved what I saw at NP, but I kinda think that HST is the only reason I got a NP interview...
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I was interviewed by only HST even though I applied to both HST and NP. But then again I'd choose HST over NP if I ever had the chance to do that. I'm MSTP and from a very technical background so HST would be more my thing. I'd have loved the opportunity to have 2 shots at getting in though.
 
Zara told me that each committee acts separately, which means that the HST interview/decision process is entirely independent of the NP process and the MSTP process. One could theoretically get any permutation of the possible accepted/rejected/waitlisted combinations (except probably HST/NP rejection +MSTP acceptance)
 
I have a pretty busy Saturday, and Sunday I figure I'll clean up my room so I can either rejoice or lament in a clean environment on Monday haha!
I'm actually becoming more and more hopeful about this though. Before it was just a pipe dream, but now, this juuusssttt might become reality. I'll be praying.
 
For me, after the Columbia WL, I'm not going to get my hopes up preemptively just so on the off-chance I actually get accepted, I can be pleasantly shocked rather than the other way around. Still a pipe dream for me! As for what I'm doing this weekend to get my mind off it - two words: Mardi Gras!
 
asebasp said:
For me, after the Columbia WL, I'm not going to get my hopes up preemptively just so on the off-chance I actually get accepted, I can be pleasantly shocked rather than the other way around. Still a pipe dream for me! As for what I'm doing this weekend to get my mind off it - two words: Mardi Gras!
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+1 Mardi Gras 😀
Edit: and house of cards
 
A lot of confident people on this thread 🙂 .. my interviews went TERRIBLY here so not expecting anything on Monday.
 
jaksmith said:
A lot of confident people on this thread 🙂 .. my interviews went TERRIBLY here so not expecting anything on Monday.
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I was late and had to excuse myself to take a wizz before my first interview at HMS. What happened to you?
 
termitechips said:
let me guess...you're on a gap year. LOL
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You're good. I do have a full time job at my alma mater but I don't ever get homework...

Edit: to be fair I'm working through spring break sooo
 
I'm not sure what I'm expecting to find, but I've been checking this thread an obnoxious amount of times the last couple days while at work.
 
jaksmith said:
A lot of confident people on this thread 🙂 .. my interviews went TERRIBLY here so not expecting anything on Monday.
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YUP -- know that others are in the same boat. I would be stunned/thrilled to be accepted. I had one good interview and one inquisition. If I get in after that, it's either because I'm a terrible judge of my own performance or the interviews just don't matter that much.
 
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