Hancock is comfortable, however, without the Miss America title.
"I have never been more at peace with myself than I was right after my name wasn't called," she says of the final round. "I'd done my best and I did what I came there to do and maybe I was meant to go home and touch the lives of people in Massachusetts, not travel around as Miss America."
Since her return to the College, Hancock has been able to return to routine.
"Everyone at Harvard has been really great, really supportive," she says. "I got letters from Deans. I have a big card up in my room signed by people from Lowell House. And a small group of Harvard students came to Atlantic City to support me."
You can also see her head shot on the wall at Pinocchio's. Harvard has very much enjoyed Hancock's triumph.
"The thing about Harvard," says Hancock, "is that people are pursuing so many different goals that they know better than to cut someone down for pursuing theirs. I have found so much support here."