Admissions
Faust Welcomes 2014 Admits
High school seniors and their families traveled from all regions of the country and the globe to Cambridge this weekend, hoping to sample life at Harvard before making their college decisions.
Visitas: Meet the Class of 2014
For those of you who feel as if you haven't had the chance to get to know the Class of 2014, we here at FlyBy would like to introduce the Class of 2014 in a short video.
Admissions: One in Sixty
We’ve all seen the ominous headlines: “record-breaking” number of applications and “new low” acceptance rates. For applicants, it’s as if every year the ceiling keeps inching higher and higher out of reach. With over 30,000 students applying to Harvard, college admissions can feel more like a labyrinth than a marathon—one in which the odds are overwhelmingly against your finding the egress. This year, out of every 14 students who applied to Harvard, just 1 was admitted. An article in The Washington Post recently asked if this meant that 1 in every 50 seniors in the country applied to Harvard.
It’s Senioritis Season
It’s that time of year again. Admissions letters (and e-mails) are out, previously unreachable college admissions officers are calling you off the hook, and suddenly high school feels oh-so-passé. The Intel-winning genius in your physics class? He’s on the field playing Ultimate instead of taking a practice AP. Missing valedictorian? Better hope he/she will be back for graduation. Whether you call it senior slump, senior slide, or senioritis, it is highly contagious and supremely difficult to eradicate.
Admissions Phone-a-thon
Jessica Yuan '11 chats on the phone with an admitted student as part of the Undergraduate Admissions Council’s Spring Phone-a-Thon, which took place on Saturday, April 3. (CORRECTION: An earlier version of the caption for this April 5 news photograph incorrectly stated that the Admissions Council's Spring Phone-a-Thon took place on March 3. In fact, it took place on April 3. The caption has been changed to reflect the error.)
Playing the Odds
If you’re a gambling man, you might be better off taking your money to Vegas than putting it on admission to any Ivy League school. This year Harvard had a 6.9 percent acceptance rate. Book of Odds, a Web site which describes itself as “a reference on the odds of everyday life,” has converted that number into betting style odds.
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Admissions officers load rejection letters onto the USPS truck. They exchange congratulations on the successful completion of another year of decisions, and lament the fact that they must reject so many qualified applicants.
Decision Day 2010: Rejected From Harvard
Chances are that you’ve heard the names of famous people who graduated from Harvard. But what about the ones who never made it past the admissions process?
Introducing the Class of 2014
At 5 p.m. yesterday, about 30,000 high school seniors had an e-mail from the Harvard College admissions office arrive in their inbox. Of those 30,000 or so students, only 2,110 were lucky enough to be accepted to Harvard. And of those 2,110, only 5 were lucky enough to be interviewed by FlyBy just hours later. Here are their stories.
