BrownPundit

20 mins to 1 in boston :S :S :S

ok ... now that you mention it ... I have not read king arthur's legend, but I have seen the movie !!!

actually I think the HKS result may be out tomorrow (wednesday) as someone here predicted !!!

I hear ya buddy i hear ya

the blog has been updated ... "Admitted" category has been explained the d-day is near !!!

yes I guess we are in the same boat ... because i think disappearance of financial councilor would be one of the worst ways to find out we are dinged

the name of financial councilor has disappeared from my myfaid ... !!!! is it just me or happening with someone else as well???

Ok, as it is becoming increasing difficult to kill time and waiting for this decision is becoming a laborious thing now, so I went ahead and did a statistical study of last year result. As the portal changes is the subject that most of us are obsessing over so let us take a glance at what the stats say from last year before we get into what it means: Last year portal changed at different times for different applicants just like this year. I have just glanced over the result and the disclaimer is that it was just glancing and data collection did not follow any due diligence protocols so they may not be accurate, but just listing them seems like fun!!! the good news is that portal changes cannot conclusively say anything about your admission, and the bad news is that it seems like the time of change changes the probability (But again the good news is that the sample size is so small that it does not make sense to conclude anything, but then what the hell we have to kill time ) By going over the last years posts, I found 5 waves or portal changes and here it goes: 1) Those who got the portal change in the very beginning: I found seven people sharing the information, out of them two got admitted, one got waitlisted and one rejected, other three did not answer, so assumption is that they two got dinged. So all is not lost for those who got the stuff changed very early on! 2) Second wave of portal changes: 3 people in total, two got in and one got dinged 3) Third wave: 2 in total, 1 in and other in the wait list 4) Fourth and the most beautiful wave: 4 in total, all got in 5) Actually this is not the fifth wave of portal changes, because the portal did not change for this wave other than that they got the status update: 3 in total, 1 in the other two dinged. So as you can see, the probability may vary but based on the data that we have it seems that at no point you can conclusively count yourself out until and unless the harvard people tell you so !!! so keep on hoping, May the force be with you all ! Now, the further research could actually be if these people would have mentioned their porgrams, them we can actually see if there is some trend between changes and the program but well it takes a lot of time to so this research so I wash my hands of it .. perhaps next year someone else may have the time and inclination to do so Another reflection that I have is : What is the point of portal changes to begin with! Even if they manually update everything, why do they have to make the text disappear, so based on my experience, I will conclude that there must be a glitch in the system, because otherwise it is just simple plain outright sadistic of the people who coded the program !!! So whenever they enter any data, the front page changes, now the million dollar question is why dont they just remove this glitch? or if it is not a glitch then what is the reason behind it? Ahh well, this is a question answer to which we will probably never have ... but as I said earlier, May the force be with you all, and good luck

Simple google search ... KS for MPA and EA for MPP and MPA Source: https://admissions.hks.harvard.edu/www/documents/Financial_Certification_AY2018.pdf I think prester john is right, we will all be assigned FCs before they release the result !!! Good luck everyone ... I admit it is a bit unnerving, but then that is the exciting bit that we will remember when we tell our stories to the next generations irrespective of our successes or failures