Harvard, C/O 2017, Applicants Thread (2013-2014) Forum

[paglababa]

No JS1 yet, complete a few days before thanksgiving

[edwardt1988]

No JS1 yet, complete a few days before thanksgiving

Complete 11/19, no js1

[Javert]

Hey gang,

Would any of you be willing to email me specific questions you were asked during your interview? I've gotten a lot of general advice from messages and this thread, and it's been very helpful. It'd put my mind at ease to hear some real questions though.

Thank ya dearly.

[jaesonko]

Is the 'writing' section on the application meant mostly for theses?

[ShrimpToastMasters]

Is the 'writing' section on the application meant mostly for theses?

i put a brief summary of my thesis there, but i think if you've published anything academic, it could also go there

[lastsamurai]

^^I didn't have a thesis, so I just put some major papers I wrote senior year that had multiple rounds of review

[lawschool22]

Yeah, I think any written piece that spent a significant amount of time in draft/revision/edit mode, especially if it was with an adviser or professor, is game for this. I have been told by those who would know that H does not like to see it left blank, so you should feel free to be fairly liberal with what you put there.

[Pishee77]

Doesn't it specifically state in the app that it's asking about papers which have been written under a professor/professional's supervision (i.e. a thesis, published doc, etc.)?

[wtrc]

We are ending day four of this week
I'm trying to be somewhat meek
BUT JS2's have not reached a peak
Dean Soban it is your phone call that we seek

In other news, I will be sticking to my day job until law school.

[lawschool22]

Doesn't it specifically state in the app that it's asking about papers which have been written under a professor/professional's supervision (i.e. a thesis, published doc, etc.)?

I don't recall the exact language, but I believe you can read "under a professors supervision" pretty liberally from what I have been told.

[drawstring]

We are ending day four of this week
I'm trying to be somewhat meek
BUT JS2's have not reached a peak
Dean Soban it is your phone call that we seek

In other news, I will be sticking to my day job until law school.

I liked it

[lawschool22]

We are ending day four of this week
I'm trying to be somewhat meek
BUT JS2's have not reached a peak
Dean Soban it is your phone call that we seek

In other news, I will be sticking to my day job until law school.

This seems like a new way for us to pass the time...HLS cycle poetry. Maybe roll it into a book deal at some point?

[applelover]

We are ending day four of this week
I'm trying to be somewhat meek
BUT JS2's have not reached a peak
Dean Soban it is your phone call that we seek

In other news, I will be sticking to my day job until law school.

I liked this though. JS, why are you torturing us?

[lawschool22]

haiku:

ice is falling
patience wanes
when no one calls

[Kimikho]

harvard completes me
i celebrate many days
now the wait begins

[lawschool22]

harvard completes me
i celebrate many days
now the wait begins

"i celebrate many days" Love it

[jingosaur]

This will be me after my JS1:

Every day I wait
I will cry or celebrate
Please call soon JS

[jingosaur]

I post Haikus now
If waiting goes past this month
I will post sonnets

[ShrimpToastMasters]

There is a place called HLS
We think it is the very best

A place where we all want to go
(Though Cambridge is all full of snow)

So call us please - we are your fans!
So call us please, Ms. Jess Soban!

[tls2175]

my patience is frayed
as my fate is still unknown
ice cream tummy-ache

[sasquatchsam]

Doesn't it specifically state in the app that it's asking about papers which have been written under a professor/professional's supervision (i.e. a thesis, published doc, etc.)?

I don't recall the exact language, but I believe you can read "under a professors supervision" pretty liberally from what I have been told.

Yes, I asked and they are pretty much looking for anything that shows you have experience writing in an academic setting. As an example, I was told that a 25 page research paper I wrote during a senior seminar class should be listed even though it did not undergo multiple revisions with the help of a faculty member.

[lawschool22]

There is a place called HLS
We think it is the very best

A place where we all want to go
(Though Cambridge is all full of snow)

So call us please - we are your fans!
So call us please, Ms. Jess Soban!

For some reason I read this as being chanted by a cheer leading squad lol

Wait - now I just read it like it was a military marching chant

[lawschool22]

my patience is frayed
as my fate is still unknown
ice cream tummy-ache

Nice. You definitely nailed the "kiru" aspect of haikus with the ice cream.

[lawschool22]

I'm now taking suggestions for poast 400

[Happy Gilmore]

I'm now taking suggestions for poast 400

post 3 times in a row again with the 400th being the third post in a row.