HELD @ HARVARD 2012 style Forum

[Killingly]

Hey, did you guys just sign your names on the bottom of the LOCI, or do it on a separate cover page or something?

I signed my name at the bottom of the LOCI, like a normal letter.

[Nulli Secundus]

Fyi, I sent a LOCI last year, had no discernible effect, still got waitlisted after a hold like a boss. (I withdrew after WL)

[Killingly]

Fyi, I sent a LOCI last year, had no discernible effect, still got waitlisted after a hold like a boss. (I withdrew after WL)

Well aware. But I had nothing to lose by sending one, anyway.

[boosk]

What kind of movement (if any) are we expecting today?

[Nelson]

I'm surprised how quiet it's been lately, but maybe KB is sensitive about being upstaged by VCEs.

[chucklesmcgee]

What kind of movement (if any) are we expecting today?

I think 0 for helds. If I were Harvard and held people on Jan 13th after months of review because I couldn't make a decision, I'd at least wait until the February 1st deadline when all the applications for this cycle had come in, take a look at those and from there make a decision on which held applicants were dings or KB1s. If the applicant pool is much smaller this year (~17% drop from an already record low year), Harvard could have some serious issues maintaining their yield, selectivity and medians (especially LSAT) and needs to have complete information to make the best decisions. My thought is that we've been held to see if anyone better comes along and they'll start moving on us when they know whether or not that's happened. Given the lower application numbers overall, slower decisions and uncharacteristically large wait-listing of other schools I'm optimistic that we'll fare better than helds in years. I think we'll probably get some movement by the 3rd.

[MobyDick]

What kind of movement (if any) are we expecting today?

I think 0 for helds. If I were Harvard and held people on Jan 13th after months of review because I couldn't make a decision, I'd at least wait until the February 1st deadline when all the applications for this cycle had come in, take a look at those and from there make a decision on which held applicants were dings or KB1s. If the applicant pool is much smaller this year (~17% drop from an already record low year), Harvard could have some serious issues maintaining their yield, selectivity and medians (especially LSAT) and needs to have complete information to make the best decisions. My thought is that we've been held to see if anyone better comes along and they'll start moving on us when they know whether or not that's happened. Given the lower application numbers overall, slower decisions and uncharacteristically large wait-listing of other schools I'm optimistic that we'll fare better than helds in years. I think we'll probably get some movement by the 3rd.

Boy, I hope you're right.

[EMZE]

What kind of movement (if any) are we expecting today?

Bowel. Thats it.

[boosk]

What kind of movement (if any) are we expecting today?

Bowel. Thats it.

between this and all the talk of vomit recently, TLS has really become a nasty place lately.

[masked kavana]

Hi all I'm extremely excited to be joining in the fun here!! Good luck to everyone

[chucklesmcgee]

Hi all I'm extremely excited to be joining in the fun here!! Good luck to everyone

This is sort of a blurry-grey dimension of limbo with fog so thick you can't see more than five feet. And not the dancing under a pole limbo. No fun allowed.

[Genki]

Sorry I'm late for the party.
My invitation got delayed in the mail by a couple of weeks.

[rotaxkarter]

Hi all I'm extremely excited to be joining in the fun here!! Good luck to everyone

This is sort of a blurry-grey dimension of limbo with fog so thick you can't see more than five feet. And not the dancing under a pole limbo. No fun allowed.

+1 There's been no movement for about 3 weeks...no fun in here...

[pineappledazzler]

I know the hold e-mail said we could hear back at any point, but it also said they now don't have to render a decision until after deadlines to deposit at other schools have passed - does anyone know if H generally tells holds they're in/WL/rejected by April, or do they actually keep people hanging on past May?
(if it makes a difference, I'm a K-JD like a lot of other holds, and I won't have much new to send in other than an updated transcript, which won't really change my GPA or rank at all!)

[chucklesmcgee]

I know the hold e-mail said we could hear back at any point, but it also said they now don't have to render a decision until after deadlines to deposit at other schools have passed - does anyone know if H generally tells holds they're in/WL/rejected by April, or do they actually keep people hanging on past May?
(if it makes a difference, I'm a K-JD like a lot of other holds, and I won't have much new to send in other than an updated transcript, which won't really change my GPA or rank at all!)

I don't know for sure, but I'd imagine Harvard would make updates on the bulk of us after reviewing all the applications for this cycle after the February 1st deadline.

If I were Harvard I would ding unheld recently applied applicants who are autorejects, schedule KB1s for recently applied autoadmit applicants, then take a look at the current admission offers made/accepted and projected class medians and the remaining pool and helds, in that order. From there I'd probably ding the weakest helds if I'm confident I'll get enough acceptances from the remaining pool and schedule interviews with the strongest helds/recently applied such that I think we'll fill enough of our class to have pretty firmly set 25-75th numbers. I don't know if waitlisting is more common with those getting KB1s or not, but I'd probably waitlist the rest and tap them when admissions offers are withdrawn. I think we'll all not be held by the end of February.

**edit: Looking through last year's holds, it seems a lot of people continued to join the hold pile even post deadline period, even as late as early April. A bunch of dings came around April 12-13, then everyone else was thrown onto the waitlist on the April 21st. A bunch of people on the waitlist got JR1 (second interviews?) around May 3rd-4th. Then acceptances for WL came out May 9th. I guess I could drudge through pages and pages of old threads but I think we'll be waiting for a while if this cycle is like last year.

[masked kavana]

Would anyone have time to proofread an LOCI? I'd be happy to return the favor. Thanks!!

[Mr. Somebody]

Joining in on the fun, got my email last week.

[jwalterweatherman]

Just sent off my LOCI and updated my LSAC transcript. I figure it can't hurt at this point.

Unless they DON'T like the nude photograph and chocolates I attached?

[outsidethescope]

Just sent off my LOCI and updated my LSAC transcript. I figure it can't hurt at this point.

Unless they DON'T like the nude photograph and chocolates I attached?

Pics or it didn't happen.

[jwalterweatherman]

Just sent off my LOCI and updated my LSAC transcript. I figure it can't hurt at this point.

Unless they DON'T like the nude photograph and chocolates I attached?

Pics or it didn't happen.

This was the "Before" photo: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2IINrA3SLw4/T ... nklage.jpg

That's really all I can show, I don't want to get kicked off.

[planeride]

To anyone who has scoured previous years' threads --

Do we know (or have a good guess) when the rejections/WLs are likely to come for us in the held pile?

[cogitoergosum]

Just sent off my LOCI and updated my LSAC transcript. I figure it can't hurt at this point.

Unless they DON'T like the nude photograph and chocolates I attached?

Pics or it didn't happen.

This was the "Before" photo: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2IINrA3SLw4/T ... nklage.jpg

That's really all I can show, I don't want to get kicked off.

You should be good... If they don't like it, then that's just little people discrimination, and that really pisses me off...

[seanPtheB]

To anyone who has scoured previous years' threads --

Do we know (or have a good guess) when the rejections/WLs are likely to come for us in the held pile?

Look a few posts up at ChucklesMcgee's post

[planeride]

To anyone who has scoured previous years' threads --

Do we know (or have a good guess) when the rejections/WLs are likely to come for us in the held pile?

Look a few posts up at ChucklesMcgee's post

Thanks...not sure how I missed that!

[EMZE]

more movement plz