Held By Harvard Club - 2010 Forum

[Kronk]

Ugggg I'm still sans JR1...I'm starting to lose hope fast.

tbf I've been hopeless since November. Get with the program, man.

[AdmitMePls]

question about additional LORs....

HLS requested that everything we send to them be signed by us. How did people make that work with LORs? Did you just ignore it and have your person send the LOR directly to HLS? Did you have them send it to you and then YOU sent it to HLS?

Thanks!

[Unitas]

question about additional LORs....

HLS requested that everything we send to them be signed by us. How did people make that work with LORs? Did you just ignore it and have your person send the LOR directly to HLS? Did you have them send it to you and then YOU sent it to HLS?

Thanks!

I had my recommender sign a sealed school envelope over where it was sealed, so I couldn't open it. Then I signed the front of the envelope on the bottom left and put my lsac number below my signature. Not sure if this is exactly what they wanted but my LOR is up the day after they got it with signed Yes.

I included it in the same envelope with my LOCI.

No phone call yet, so I'll let you know.

[Hattori Hanzo]

question about additional LORs....

HLS requested that everything we send to them be signed by us. How did people make that work with LORs? Did you just ignore it and have your person send the LOR directly to HLS? Did you have them send it to you and then YOU sent it to HLS?

Thanks!

I had my recommender sign a sealed school envelope over where it was sealed, so I couldn't open it. Then I signed the front of the envelope on the bottom left and put my lsac number below my signature. Not sure if this is exactly what they wanted but my LOR is up the day after they got it with signed Yes.

I included it in the same envelope with my LOCI.

No phone call yet, so I'll let you know.

You can also submit the additional LOR through LSAC as usual. I assigned an additional LOR a few days ago and it showed up on my status checker today.

[invisiblesun]

this is copied and pasted from my post in the harvard thread, i figured it was more appropriate here:

interesting tidbit. 09-10 cycle on LSN shows 122 outright acceptances thus far, 08-09 showed ~160. if the proportion of people who report data on LSN has not changed since last year, we still have roughly 25% of the outright admittances yet to be given out. if we assume that 750 out of harvard's ~830 acceptances are outright and not off the waitlist, and proportions of LSN reporters have not changed since last year, this would mean there are still ~175 outright admittances outstanding. don't stop believin'!

p.s. it's late and i'm tired, feel free to hack away at my logic or make modifications that would make this more representative

[ShibaDan]

question about additional LORs....

HLS requested that everything we send to them be signed by us. How did people make that work with LORs? Did you just ignore it and have your person send the LOR directly to HLS? Did you have them send it to you and then YOU sent it to HLS?

Thanks!

I'm abroad and didn't even sign mine. My recommender just sent it straight to them and it still says signed: YES. Also, for my LOCI they let me e-mail it. They have been being really nice about all this. Probably because it's going directly to the trash can where I presume my application is -> -> -> -> ->

[ShibaDan]

Ugggg I'm still sans JR1...I'm starting to lose hope fast.

tbf I've been hopeless since November. Get with the program, man.

I tell myself I am...but then that little glimmer keeps coming back. Oh man do I want Harvard, the name alone will make foreign service work so much easier. Sigh.

[amputatedbrain]

Ugggg I'm still sans JR1...I'm starting to lose hope fast.

tbf I've been hopeless since November. Get with the program, man.

In the Q&A on the HLS admissions blog JR said that there really isn't much difference (necessarily anyway) between JR1---> hold and no JR1---> hold. He said it was more of a coincidence of when your file was reviewed . . . take it for what you will I guess.

[puppleberry finn]

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[swimbrad]

Ugggg I'm still sans JR1...I'm starting to lose hope fast.

tbf I've been hopeless since November. Get with the program, man.

In the Q&A on the HLS admissions blog JR said that there really isn't much difference (necessarily anyway) between JR1---> hold and no JR1---> hold. He said it was more of a coincidence of when your file was reviewed . . . take it for what you will I guess.

maybe there is no difference because both are equally hopeless? at this point I suspect I have about as much chance at getting dinged from harvard as boalttt graduates have of owning a prius.

It's thing like this that'll make getting the ding - thanks pupp!

[invisiblesun]

this is copied and pasted from my post in the harvard thread, i figured it was more appropriate here:

interesting tidbit. 09-10 cycle on LSN shows 122 outright acceptances thus far, 08-09 showed ~160. if the proportion of people who report data on LSN has not changed since last year, we still have roughly 25% of the outright admittances yet to be given out. if we assume that 750 out of harvard's ~830 acceptances are outright and not off the waitlist, and proportions of LSN reporters have not changed since last year, this would mean there are still ~175 outright admittances outstanding. don't stop believin'!

p.s. it's late and i'm tired, feel free to hack away at my logic or make modifications that would make this more representative

I adjusted this to account for hidden profiles and some suggestions from fellow posters in the Harvard 2010 thread - we're looking at more like ~80-105 acceptances yet to be made. Still not bad!

[Unitas]

How many of you, who are held, received the e-mail from Harvard encouraging you to apply?

[$1.99]

i am feeling a wave of movement tomorrow from harvard, just a feeling

[amputatedbrain]

i am feeling a wave of movement tomorrow from harvard, just a feeling

Is there anything to the whole Friday thing with Harvard? Or where there just some acceptances on a Friday or two and everyone got mindfucked?

[$1.99]

there has typically been more action on fridays recently with both good and bad news flowing out.

[Havaianas]

forgive me for not looking through like 50 pages of harvard threads but i cant recall seeing this...
do you get an email letting you know of what time your JR1 is or do you just get a surprise phone call?

[amputatedbrain]

forgive me for not looking through like 50 pages of harvard threads but i cant recall seeing this...
do you get an email letting you know of what time your JR1 is or do you just get a surprise phone call?

You schedule the phone call via e-mail . . . or so I've heard in the stories people who got JR1's tell

[bluedolphins]

forgive me for not looking through like 50 pages of harvard threads but i cant recall seeing this...
do you get an email letting you know of what time your JR1 is or do you just get a surprise phone call?

No, you don't get a surprise phone call. You get an email before hand from JR and in the email, he tells you the specific time he will be calling you. If the time doesn' work for you, you can email back and reschedule.

[Core]

there has typically been more action on fridays recently with both good and bad news flowing out.

Are you referring to JR1's?

[monique522]

It's thing like this that'll make getting the ding - thanks pupp!

wait, what?

[BenJ]

there has typically been more action on fridays recently with both good and bad news flowing out.

Are you referring to JR1's?

Yes; since the end of January, it has seemed like JR1 emails come on Fridays.

[CanadianEH]

A lot of bad news comes out on friday as well, if i'm remembering correctly.

[violaboy]

Hoping for some movement. I just want to know...

[cflames7]

A lot of bad news comes out on friday as well, if i'm remembering correctly.

Good news comes on Fridays too!!!!!!!

I GOT A CALL FROM JOSH!!! I AM GOING TO HARVARD!!!!

I applied in Oct, had a JR1 before Thanksgiving. JR2 on March 12th!!!

[portena]

Held today. JR1 was 1/20. Sigh.