Admissions
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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Senior admissions officer David L. Evans and his colleagues enjoy champagne, cheese, and crackers as they celebrate the send-off of the decisions on which they have deliberated for the past three months.
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Admissions officers smile and cheer as the last box of decision letters is loaded onto the truck to be sent to students around the world.
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.
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Admissions officer Valerie Beilenson helps load decision letters that will be delivered to applicants for the class of 2014 onto a mail truck outside of the Admissions Office. 6.8% of applicants were granted a spot in the Harvard College Class of 2014.
