Harvard 2012 applicants (class of 2015) Forum

[yepyepyep]

Another splitter here, very low GPA, had KB1 on Friday, constantly freaking out since.

Congrats to all that got an interview!
Sounds like the Splitter boat left with me still on the pier...Please come back!

[aekea]

Another splitter here, very low GPA, had KB1 on Friday, constantly freaking out since.

Congrats to all that got an interview!
Sounds like the Splitter boat left with me still on the pier...Please come back!

+1

[teacher10456]

KB2!!!

[Elendil]

KB2!!!

CONGRATULATIONS! First one in awhile!

[StrictlyBusiness]

Hold email 20 minutes ago, first thing I've heard from Harvard since my complete email 3/1. They even suggest I might want to deposit at another school. Gee thanks! Baaaaahhhh just tell me already!

[Dancers4eva]

KB2!!!

CONGRATULATIONS! First one in awhile!

When did you have your kb1? And was your kb2 a call or email?

[whenwin]

Hold email 20 minutes ago, first thing I've heard from Harvard since my complete email 3/1. They even suggest I might want to deposit at another school. Gee thanks! Baaaaahhhh just tell me already!

What the? Holding people in April? Now I'm just confused.
If there is a method to their madness it certainly isn't obvious from the outside looking in.

[Elendil]

Hold email 20 minutes ago, first thing I've heard from Harvard since my complete email 3/1. They even suggest I might want to deposit at another school. Gee thanks! Baaaaahhhh just tell me already!

What the? Holding people in April? Now I'm just confused.
If there is a method to their madness it certainly isn't obvious from the outside looking in.

Maybe JS is coming back again and KB wants to save some good ones for her to review also!

[Dancers4eva]

Hold email 20 minutes ago, first thing I've heard from Harvard since my complete email 3/1. They even suggest I might want to deposit at another school. Gee thanks! Baaaaahhhh just tell me already!

Wow why did you apply so late with such solid numbers. Not great move my friend.

[hypothalamus]

Hold email 20 minutes ago, first thing I've heard from Harvard since my complete email 3/1. They even suggest I might want to deposit at another school. Gee thanks! Baaaaahhhh just tell me already!

What the? Holding people in April? Now I'm just confused.
If there is a method to their madness it certainly isn't obvious from the outside looking in.

Maybe JS is coming back again and KB wants to save some good ones for her to review also!

hahahaha this makes me laugh, in the crying kind of way

[Doorkeeper]

KB1s for non-URMs with a 3.4 gpa, holds in early April...I'm done trying to figure out what's going on up in Cambridge. They're off the grid on their craziness this cycle.

[Syme]

KB2!

I had my JS1 almost a month ago. Had lost hope. Obviously, freaking out.

[hellothisisme]

Dumb question: Does Harvard do phone interviews with all candidates that they eventually put on the waitlist? Or is anybody waitlisted without a KB1/JS1/whatever it is called these days?

I haven't been following this thread at all since I don't have a shot in hell of being accepted. The absolute best I can hope for is a waitlist, and even that would be a miracle. So I'm just wondering.

[cfrob14]

Hold email 20 minutes ago, first thing I've heard from Harvard since my complete email 3/1. They even suggest I might want to deposit at another school. Gee thanks! Baaaaahhhh just tell me already!

+1

[Applying_Late]

On the people's therapist article, I wonder whether a Harvard JD is even worth the punishment of a biglaw job and 200k in debt. I personally feel anything less than a HYS JD is definitely not worth that price.

If you think the job is a punishment, why are you going to law school?

Also--new KB1s: congratulations! How low of GPAs are we talking about here?

Are you saying that you can't do anything else than biglaw? Fortunately, Harvard allows for you to go to other places.

The only thing I will say about biglaw is that it is shitty for the debt. It seems med school is the safest bet--salaries of 200k-1M after residency (2-7 years). A family member of mine makes 200k by working 3 days a week and refuses to work more (shortage of docs). Not a bad deal if you ask me. Law and med both drain you--med just seems to suck your soul much less....

[Nelson]

Dumb question: Does Harvard do phone interviews with all candidates that they eventually put on the waitlist? Or is anybody waitlisted without a KB1/JS1/whatever it is called these days?

Many, many people will be waitlisted without an interview. They're a prerequisite for getting in, but not for enjoying the thrill of extending the time before being rejected by Harvard into the summer months.

[Nelson]

On the people's therapist article, I wonder whether a Harvard JD is even worth the punishment of a biglaw job and 200k in debt. I personally feel anything less than a HYS JD is definitely not worth that price.

If you think the job is a punishment, why are you going to law school?

Also--new KB1s: congratulations! How low of GPAs are we talking about here?

Are you saying that you can't do anything else than biglaw? Fortunately, Harvard allows for you to go to other places.

The only thing I will say about biglaw is that it is shitty for the debt. It seems med school is the safest bet--salaries of 200k-1M after residency (2-7 years). A family member of mine makes 200k by working 3 days a week and refuses to work more (shortage of docs). Not a bad deal if you ask me. Law and med both drain you--med just seems to suck your soul much less....

Some people prefer pushing paper to sick people and gore. Shocking I know.

[Dancers4eva]

On the people's therapist article, I wonder whether a Harvard JD is even worth the punishment of a biglaw job and 200k in debt. I personally feel anything less than a HYS JD is definitely not worth that price.

If you think the job is a punishment, why are you going to law school?

Also--new KB1s: congratulations! How low of GPAs are we talking about here?

Are you saying that you can't do anything else than biglaw? Fortunately, Harvard allows for you to go to other places.

The only thing I will say about biglaw is that it is shitty for the debt. It seems med school is the safest bet--salaries of 200k-1M after residency (2-7 years). A family member of mine makes 200k by working 3 days a week and refuses to work more (shortage of docs). Not a bad deal if you ask me. Law and med both drain you--med just seems to suck your soul much less....

Some people prefer pushing paper to sick people and gore. Shocking I know.

The point is the people who work with gore don't have "up an out" and 60-80 hr workweeks.

[Applying_Late]

On the people's therapist article, I wonder whether a Harvard JD is even worth the punishment of a biglaw job and 200k in debt. I personally feel anything less than a HYS JD is definitely not worth that price.

If you think the job is a punishment, why are you going to law school?

Also--new KB1s: congratulations! How low of GPAs are we talking about here?

Are you saying that you can't do anything else than biglaw? Fortunately, Harvard allows for you to go to other places.

The only thing I will say about biglaw is that it is shitty for the debt. It seems med school is the safest bet--salaries of 200k-1M after residency (2-7 years). A family member of mine makes 200k by working 3 days a week and refuses to work more (shortage of docs). Not a bad deal if you ask me. Law and med both drain you--med just seems to suck your soul much less....

Some people prefer pushing paper to sick people and gore. Shocking I know.

Med school administrators make the same amount of cash. They only push paper. You could also be a benchside md, meaning you just do basic science research. Or hell you could consult. A good chunk of MDs don't practice bedside....

[Nelson]

The point is the people who work with gore don't have "up an out" and 60-80 hr workweeks.

Go to med school then? This is a stupid line of reasoning. There's a reason people want to go into law, consulting, banking, etc. It's because it's not brain surgery or rocket science. It's a low barrier to entry career with pretty decent long term employment prospects. Almost any job you can go into requires long hours and some luck to get to the highest prestige jobs. It's not like top flight surgeons earning top dollar work 35 hour weeks. It's an even more "up and out" profession since the vast majority of the population can't hack it.

[Applying_Late]

What do you mean they dont have 60-80 hour work weeks? Plenty of them do if not most. The family member that works 3 days a week pulls 24 hour shifts--that's 72 hours. Surgeons can easily work over 100.

[Dancers4eva]

The point is the people who work with gore don't have "up an out" and 60-80 hr workweeks.

Go to med school then? This is a stupid line of reasoning. There's a reason people want to go into law, consulting, banking, etc. It's because it's not brain surgery or rocket science. It's a low barrier to entry career with pretty decent long term employment prospects. Almost any job you can go into requires long hours and some luck to get to the highest prestige jobs. It's not like top flight surgeons earning top dollar work 35 hour weeks. It's an even more "up and out" profession since the vast majority of the population can't hack it.

I wasn't talking about consulting or banking. I was talking strictly about biglaw. With the chance of making partner practically non-existent, and with most exit ops entailing a drop in pay, it just seems like a really crappy route.

[Elendil]

Sooo about those KB1's and KB2's today... and all other things Harvard-related!

[Dancers4eva]

What do you mean they dont have 60-80 hour work weeks? Plenty of them do if not most. The family member that works 3 days a week pulls 24 hour shifts--that's 72 hours. Surgeons can easily work over 100.

I stand corrected. That's a ridiculous schedule

[whenwin]

KB2!

I had my JS1 almost a month ago. Had lost hope. Obviously, freaking out.

Ahhhhh super congrats fellow JS1->??? !!