Harvard Kennedy MPP 2021

[sup5505]

Rejected (MPP)  Going for my MBA at MIT though, and was planning to start there anyway and then at HKS in Fall 2022. Will probably reapply but for the MPA...maybe chances will be higher after a semester at MIT Sloan. Anyone know if they hold on to recommendation letters and/or essays?

[intlapplicant]

HKS just posted on their Instagram that financial aid awards will be released today as well!!

[lmappers]

2 minutes ago, aspiringmpp said:

Accepted here as well - thrilled!! But no news on funding - does anyone know how that news is shared?

Just read the acceptance email more thoroughly and is said information on financial assistance will come separately from Dan_Rossi@hks.harvard.edu.

[MPPNYC]

4 minutes ago, sup5505 said:

Rejected (MPP)  Going for my MBA at MIT though, and was planning to start there anyway and then at HKS in Fall 2022. Will probably reapply but for the MPA...maybe chances will be higher after a semester at MIT Sloan. Anyone know if they hold on to recommendation letters and/or essays?

Yep, held for 3 years

[anxiousgradstudent17]

I GOT INTO HARVARD YA'LL. Never thought this day would come. 

[nkrish21]

In at Harvard too MC MPA...waiting on fin aid decisions

[intlapplicant]

Is it an email then or a letter on the portal?? haven't checked yet

[EconIsLife]

Wow I'm pleasantly surprised! Accepted to MPA/ID. The HBS rejection stings a bit more now...

[StudentUSA]

8 minutes ago, MPPNYC said:

Yep, held for 3 years

I thought you have to rewrite essays? 

[Mpa-aspiration]

Told you it would happen today folks.  I've been waitlisted in the MC/MPA program.  Hopefully i'll be joining you folks this fall! Did anyone else get waitlisted.

[MPPNYC]

Just now, StudentUSA said:

I thought you have to rewrite essays? 

The recommendations are definitely held -- I reused one of mine.  I can't recall if the essays stayed.  

[bruyeres]

Got in! No news on financial assistance beyond it saying that someone will be in touch via email. MYFAID page hasn't changed at all either.

[StudentUSA]

Just now, Mpa-aspiration said:

Told you it would happen today folks.  I've been waitlisted in the MC/MPA program.  Hopefully i'll be joining you folks this fall! Did anyone else get waitlisted.

Me - does it mean that we have no funding and we can't defer? 

[wildchartermage]

16 minutes ago, sup5505 said:

Rejected (MPP)  Going for my MBA at MIT though, and was planning to start there anyway and then at HKS in Fall 2022. Will probably reapply but for the MPA...maybe chances will be higher after a semester at MIT Sloan. Anyone know if they hold on to recommendation letters and/or essays?

Congrats on getting into MIT Sloan! I hope you will come to love MIT just as I did (I went to MIT undergrad). 

Chin up and re-apply in your first year. You still got another chance!  

3 minutes ago, EconIsLife said:

Wow I'm pleasantly surprised! Accepted to MPA/ID. The HBS rejection stings a bit more now...

Ditto here. Got rejected from HBS as well.  

[MadEye]

34 minutes ago, MBAngineer said:

Tell your friend that folks on thegradcafe send their regards. ? 

 

42 minutes ago, HKSApp21 said:

Tell your friend I said ?

Haha! What should I tell her now? Anyway, congrats to all who got in! SIPA it is for me in all probability now ?

[2021intcycle]

Accepted to MPP! When I try to access the "New Admit Portal" however, I receive an "access denied" notification. Is anyone else having this issue?

[Fruit]

Accepted to the MPP program. Feeling an overwhelming amount of relief as a reprieve from immense grief, given the recent hate crimes in the US. Didn't receive the level of funding needed to change my mind, so I will be turning down this offer to attend Princeton SPIA. Hopefully this will free up a slot to my fellow public servants! Congrats again, everyone.

Edited March 18, 2021 by Twiste

[TKMPP]

Accepted to MPP as well!!! No funding info yet that I saw, praying that I get something!

[sup5505]

Anyone willing to share a screenshot of their acceptance letter? Curious how it reads

[realist2020]

Rejected MPA/ID. Cambridge(M.Phil Development Studies) it is for me then !!

[lisbonb]

30 minutes ago, sup5505 said:

Rejected (MPP)  Going for my MBA at MIT though, and was planning to start there anyway and then at HKS in Fall 2022. Will probably reapply but for the MPA...maybe chances will be higher after a semester at MIT Sloan. Anyone know if they hold on to recommendation letters and/or essays?

They hold on to your rec letters, transcripts, test scores etc. when you reapply. You only have to update your essays! Best of luck next year! 

[sup5505]

Just now, lisbonb said:

They hold on to your rec letters, transcripts, test scores etc. when you reapply. You only have to update your essays! Best of luck next year! 

Thank you! Dp you know if recommenders will be re-notified that their letters are being used? 

[Ajo1797]

Is there anyone who will be declining the Georgetown MSFS offer here. I am curious!

[lisbonb]

Just now, sup5505 said:

Thank you! Dp you know if recommenders will be re-notified that their letters are being used? 

I don't think so. My recommenders didn't mention anything to me about being notified when I reapplied.

[nc922]

Waitlisted for MPA/ID. Very shocked (was confident that I was gonna be outright rejected).