To the poster already accepted. May I ask your primary & secondary literatures and your languages?

Any news from this program? Submitted at 2/2

TPB: if/once you have decided to go to MIT, I would be incredibly grateful if you could let Harvard know soon. Thank you!

Does anyone know when can we expect formal rejections?

Well, at least y'all have been interviewed. The only sign I have had from Harvard was a couple of searches for my social media profile a few weeks back, followed by an uncanny silence!

TTPB: I am in the same boat. Had an interview but probably will get rejected since I haven't heard back. I wonder why there is so less GC acceptance post for Harvard. Like do you stand any slightest of chance? :(

TPB: I think UCD, Harvard and Wisconsin are IRs, less sure about the others. UCLA and Berkeley usually only send out decisions in late February or early March, I suspect the previous posts from these schools might have been trolls. Quite possibly the same with Columbia

Glad that you have quite a few options, but please take the conversation on placements somewhere else, like urch

I'm also seriously leaning towards MIT since placement is consistently stronger. Also heard that advisors generally care more about students

I am still waiting, lol! Even had an interview. I think I am probably rejected from everywhere else too. Haven't heard anything yet. :')

How many here are waiting for Harvard's rejection email just to get a closure? :D

Anyone else thinking to defer due to Covid-19 disruption in Fall 2021/immigration issues?

TBP: It's a tough decision, but I am also inclining to MIT. The placement is generally better (at least in my field).

TPB: Only waitlisted at Harvard, but I'm most likely going to withdraw my name from the waitlist b/c I prefer MIT/Stanford over Harvard given my research interests.

To Harvard / MIT cross admits: which one are you leaning toward?

TPB: To corroborate the previous post, the exact language was "Due to a university-wide policy, we were only able to admit around a quarter of our usual class size this year". On the other schools, I don't think that Stanford's target cohort size was cut. During the visit day, which included waitlisted candidates, the faculty said that they had to waitlist more candidates than usual b/c the university wanted to avoid admitting too many people. They never said that they wanted a smaller total cohort. Looking into the claim about MIT's cohort size. I don't know anything about Chicago though.