Jleighski123

No bubble burst MBEd... I appreciate the honesty. I agree with you, better odds this fall. Do you think they will require GRE? If so, I better get going on that front!

Question about your rejection letter. Did they encourage you to apply again and stay connected? I'm wondering if the rejection letter is a standard template sent to everyone or if they took a bit of time to differentiate the rejections (even if they cut and paste different statements)? In the end, I know it does not matter much, everyone is talented who applied, but it might cheer me up a bit if they truly want me to apply again ?

Congrats! Do us proud!!!!

It's a no for me ? Good luck everyone!

Good luck to everyone today! I am cheering you all on from afar. No matter the result, we did a fantastic job of getting an application in speedily and during a pandemic, no less. Kudos to all of us for daring to dream BIG.

This is an amazing list of courses, thank you for sharing. I see at least a half a dozen classes I would LOVE to take. Good luck to all. We've waited this long....just a few more days.

Thanks for the clarification!

Hi Oden, I'm not sure there is a concrete answer out there. I did find a few articles stating 6 graduate schools at Harvard went online this fall. Two of them (Law and Kennedy) offered deferment to any student, no questions asked. I assume the same was offered to HGSE students but can't find that information posted anywhere. The caveat is/was, if too many students defer they risk class of 2022 entrance, not 2021. Are your kids' friends undergrads? I think that' might be a slightly different circumstance if so. There are a host of considerations (networking, finances, experiencing Boston, soaking up Harvard's campus, preferring face to face instruction) that online learning does not support. In other words, don't give up hope! There was a petition among the students population to offer the deferral. Harvard responded well in kind. I don't think they would have offered the second admission cycle unless they needed to fill a statistically significant amount of slots. But agree, still less slots than the first cycle. Also, there was this interesting article detailing a 2% decrease in endowment funding for graduate programs this year. Before COVID, it looks like most were expecting increased funding. A significant portion of the budget was spent on reacting to COVID (online learning ramp up) even with decreased funding. Which is to say, this is a good year to have healthy tuition revenue. The more admits the merrier? https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/06/harvard-professional-schools-move-online-endowment-distribution-decreased

Good point! I saw online the resubmission process for another admissions cycle is quite easy. Not sure if they will require GREs the second time around but I believe beyond that the only new requirement is one new letter of recommendation. The others can transfer over from the first cycle. Not a bad plan B, but hopefully not necessary for all of us!

My portal is the same “application received” status too ?

I also have not received word (HDP program). In past cycles it looks like everyone found out on the same day? That would seem fair. If I had to bet, I would guess decisions are released Friday afternoon around 5 pm - give folks a cooling off period over the weekend. But who knows, this is a very different type of admissions cycle! Good luck everyone! In the meantime, stay calm and carry on :-)

I also have a terminal degree (Ed.D.) from a Tier 1 Research university. My undergrad cumulative GPA is lower than yours and my SOP is not so much impassioned as it is research focused. I have a 4.0 in all of my graduate work (M.Ed. As well). I have some specific questions I want to explore in the Human Development and Psychology program that I didn’t explore in my doctoral work. With 20 years experience in the field I think it’s going to come down to fit. If my research question is a good fit for them, then I think my chances are better. If it is not a great fit for them, then I don’t think they will have a spot for me. I hope in the end it’s about moving ideas and research forward and less about “stats” at the entry point.