Harvard 2012 applicants (class of 2015) Forum

[Dino_Spumoni]

Yes, sorry. If you can forgive his/her late night errors, can you forgive my shallow pedantry?

No, your all stupid. Their, I said it, know go too sleep!

This was on purpose to prove a point...yes?

I hope.

[WhiteGuy5]

Yes, sorry. If you can forgive his/her late night errors, can you forgive my shallow pedantry?

No, your all stupid. Their, I said it, know go too sleep!

This was on purpose to prove a point...yes?

I hope.

I hope you missing the other two mistakes was on purpose too.

[Elendil]

Jeez. I stop by for an end of day check and all I see is a two-page argument over grammar. Slow day, huh?

[Nulli Secundus]

Really? 3 pages and there is only one hold? People please discuss unrelated topics in other topics, my heart monitor just spazzed out.

[yepyepyep]

Jeez. I stop by for an end of day check and all I see is a two-page argument over grammar. Slow day, huh?

Haha it was only a matter of time before the holding got the best of the thread.

[backwards54]

i haven't been asked for an interview or seen any movement since i first went under review. i guess this means i should expect a ding any day now?

i went UR the last week of january. am wondering if it is ridic to hold out hope for an interview or waitlist...

I'm pretty much in the same situation as you (UR since feb 6th). I have not been put on hold, just no movement at all. I'm wondering if it means I'll be directly rejected soon? placed on hold? directly WL? interviewed? I have no idea!

I've seen people on this forum who have been UR after me (and therefore also after you) and who already got JS1 or rejections or hold status. I'm wondering if they're going through the applications in a chronological order (and they just don't know what to do with us so they wait) or if they just go a bit randomly with every application and we haven't been reviewed yet (maybe they have different "review teams" and our applications get assigned to different teams and some are faster than others? no idea.)

[phx]

I've benefited so much from this forum that I figured I'd finally create a profile and post.

For those of you who haven't heard *anything* for months: There's still hope! I got my "complete" email on 12/22 and only just heard back yesterday (no hold or anything in the meantime), when I was offered a JS1 interview. I had the call today, which didn't have any major hiccups but left me a bit flustered simply because it was so short. We'll see what happens from here.

Hmm, interesting...this seems to show they're going through the "forgotten" pile before (if) they get to more holds...

I can only hope. UR since 10/14 and nothing. Maybe I'm in the VERY forgotten pile.

[snehpets]

A cringe? Yes. Summoning the motivation to post an admonishing reply? No. As to your broader point --that of questioning the academic prowess of folks based on their postings here -- well, success at writing, like success in any other pursuit, is indicative only of one's ability to write. Extrapolating intellectual merit from hastily assembled internet posts is lazy at best and objectionable at worst. Using your argument, I would have to conclude that you are likely to be an ornery and combustible sort, as it is clear from your post that you lack a sense of proportion. But, that would be foolhardy, and I have no doubt that, in reality, you are pleasant and serene.

Yeah, and honestly some of the smartest people I know are terrible at spelling/writing. That's only indicative of their overall intelligence in the sense that we often gauge someone's level of intelligence by their being passably good at a large number of things rather than brilliant in one or two areas and lamentable in others. I think this is a really misleading though perhaps unavoidable tendency.

Aside from that, I still think it's a dick move to call someone's intelligence out when they haven't done anything to you or anyone for that matter.

On topic, ready to be done waiting on Harvard! I'd take a rejection at this point just to hear.

[Geneva]

A cringe? Yes. Summoning the motivation to post an admonishing reply? No. As to your broader point --that of questioning the academic prowess of folks based on their postings here -- well, success at writing, like success in any other pursuit, is indicative only of one's ability to write. Extrapolating intellectual merit from hastily assembled internet posts is lazy at best and objectionable at worst. Using your argument, I would have to conclude that you are likely to be an ornery and combustible sort, as it is clear from your post that you lack a sense of proportion. But, that would be foolhardy, and I have no doubt that, in reality, you are pleasant and serene.

Yeah, and honestly some of the smartest people I know are terrible at spelling/writing. That's only indicative of their overall intelligence in the sense that we often gauge someone's level of intelligence by their being passably good at a large number of things rather than brilliant in one or two areas and lamentable in others. I think this is a really misleading though perhaps unavoidable tendency.

Aside from that, I still think it's a dick move to call someone's intelligence out when they haven't done anything to you or anyone for that matter.

On topic, ready to be done waiting on Harvard! I'd take a rejection at this point just to hear.

this sort of snobbishness makes me feel better about my imminent ding. i'm sure most people at hls are wonderful and know the poster may not even be harvard bound, but i don't see posts like this on the thread of yale applicants.

[sailboat]

A cringe? Yes. Summoning the motivation to post an admonishing reply? No. As to your broader point --that of questioning the academic prowess of folks based on their postings here -- well, success at writing, like success in any other pursuit, is indicative only of one's ability to write. Extrapolating intellectual merit from hastily assembled internet posts is lazy at best and objectionable at worst. Using your argument, I would have to conclude that you are likely to be an ornery and combustible sort, as it is clear from your post that you lack a sense of proportion. But, that would be foolhardy, and I have no doubt that, in reality, you are pleasant and serene.

Yeah, and honestly some of the smartest people I know are terrible at spelling/writing. That's only indicative of their overall intelligence in the sense that we often gauge someone's level of intelligence by their being passably good at a large number of things rather than brilliant in one or two areas and lamentable in others. I think this is a really misleading though perhaps unavoidable tendency.

Aside from that, I still think it's a dick move to call someone's intelligence out when they haven't done anything to you or anyone for that matter.

On topic, ready to be done waiting on Harvard! I'd take a rejection at this point just to hear.

this sort of snobbishness makes me feel better about my imminent ding. i'm sure most people at hls are wonderful and know the poster may not even be harvard bound, but i don't see posts like this on the thread of yale applicants.

The Yale thread is also 1/4 the size of this one...

[bogm2012]

A cringe? Yes. Summoning the motivation to post an admonishing reply? No. As to your broader point --that of questioning the academic prowess of folks based on their postings here -- well, success at writing, like success in any other pursuit, is indicative only of one's ability to write. Extrapolating intellectual merit from hastily assembled internet posts is lazy at best and objectionable at worst. Using your argument, I would have to conclude that you are likely to be an ornery and combustible sort, as it is clear from your post that you lack a sense of proportion. But, that would be foolhardy, and I have no doubt that, in reality, you are pleasant and serene.

Yeah, and honestly some of the smartest people I know are terrible at spelling/writing. That's only indicative of their overall intelligence in the sense that we often gauge someone's level of intelligence by their being passably good at a large number of things rather than brilliant in one or two areas and lamentable in others. I think this is a really misleading though perhaps unavoidable tendency.

Aside from that, I still think it's a dick move to call someone's intelligence out when they haven't done anything to you or anyone for that matter.

On topic, ready to be done waiting on Harvard! I'd take a rejection at this point just to hear.

this sort of snobbishness makes me feel better about my imminent ding. i'm sure most people at hls are wonderful and know the poster may not even be harvard bound, but i don't see posts like this on the thread of yale applicants.

I've been to 3 ASWs. One H/Y/S, one C/C/N, one lower t14. People haven't really differed between the three groups and aren't really anything like what you might infer from time spent on this board.

[Nulli Secundus]

Sigh..

[mjitbswyd]

I cannot believe I just spend 0.5 dollar to watch this page with my mobile phone.

[Geneva]

I cannot believe I just spend 0.5 dollar to watch this page with my mobile phone.

thank you for this comment. worth at least .5 dollar:)

[Blessedassurance]

this sort of snobbishness makes me feel better about my imminent ding. i'm sure most people at hls are wonderful and know the poster may not even be harvard bound, but i don't see posts like this on the thread of yale applicants.

The Yale applicants (for the most part) are/were Harvard applicants. The posters in question applied to other schools. The conversation could have happened in another random school's 2012 thread.

It's just a random sperglord (who happens to have applied to Harvard amongst other schools) having what appears to be a bad day. It happens. In fact there's a Yale-student-answering-questions thread with a Yalie deploring the fact that consenting adults decide to have sex in law school.

[curiouscat]

In fact there's a Yale-student-answering-questions thread with a Yalie deploring the fact that consenting adults decide to have sex in law school.

Yeah, but at least that one was funny.

[Geneva]

this sort of snobbishness makes me feel better about my imminent ding. i'm sure most people at hls are wonderful and know the poster may not even be harvard bound, but i don't see posts like this on the thread of yale applicants.

The Yale applicants (for the most part) are/were Harvard applicants. The posters in question applied to other schools. The conversation could have happened in another random school's 2012 thread.

It's just a random sperglord (who happens to have applied to Harvard amongst other schools) having what appears to be a bad day. It happens. In fact there's a Yale-student-answering-questions thread with a Yalie deploring the fact that consenting adults decide to have sex in law school.

haha, i thought that was a joke...sure it is a real yalie?

[hypothalamus]

[img]

Nulli, that thing of yours is huge. *wink*

[Blessedassurance]

this sort of snobbishness makes me feel better about my imminent ding. i'm sure most people at hls are wonderful and know the poster may not even be harvard bound, but i don't see posts like this on the thread of yale applicants.

The Yale applicants (for the most part) are/were Harvard applicants. The posters in question applied to other schools. The conversation could have happened in another random school's 2012 thread.

It's just a random sperglord (who happens to have applied to Harvard amongst other schools) having what appears to be a bad day. It happens. In fact there's a Yale-student-answering-questions thread with a Yalie deploring the fact that consenting adults decide to have sex in law school.

haha, i thought that was a joke...sure it is a real yalie?

It may have been a troll, who knows... but for the purposes of our discussion we'll consider him/her/it a bona fide Yalie.

[Nulli Secundus]

[img]

Nulli, that thing of yours is huge. *wink*

That was the point.

Tried to stop off-topic banter, but it didn't work.

[hypothalamus]

[img]

Nulli, that thing of yours is huge. *wink*

That was the point.

Tried to stop off-topic banter, but it didn't work.

Well, I tried to steer into the direction of sexual innuendos, but that didn't work either.

[Doorkeeper]

Well, I tried to steer into the direction of sexual innuendos, but that didn't work either.

...This is non-lounge TLS.

*looks around*

Did you really think that was going to do much around these folks?

[hypothalamus]

Well, I tried to steer into the direction of sexual innuendos, but that didn't work either.

...This is non-lounge TLS.

*looks around*

Did you really think that was going to do much around these folks?

The folks who have been arguing over whether someone who writes "exept" instead of "accept" is a documented moron or a tired genius for 3 pages? I don't think I need to answer any further.

Besides, it's safe to assume there won't be many (good) decisions coming this way at this point, so people are starting to lounge around in these threads. If you can't beat them

[PopTorts13]

I'm beginning to have a strong suspicion as to why your art degree isn't being respected

You're missing a period at the end of your sentence. It must be that time of the month for you. What a shame.

[Doorkeeper]

To get back on task, it seems many of the most recent admits on LSN are late submitters. Perhaps the hold pile will have another round soon?

Also from LSN, there appears to be a steady stream of rejections coming from them of late.