Governed signal Official source Frozen foundational record
SIG-087: Harvard College
The first-year application combines a Common Application personal essay with five required Harvard short answers.
Observed · Signal multiplicity
Evidence passage recorded against the source
For the Common Application, you will need to submit: Common Application which includes: Subsets of questions An activities list Personal essay ( Common Application prompts ) Harvard College Questions for the Common Application. There are five required short-answer questions with 150 word limits for each
LimitThe passage is what the research lead recorded against the official page on the observation date. Pages change; check the source and the retrieval date before relying on it.
Scope as recorded
- Institution
- Harvard College
- Market
- Not stated in the frozen record
- Programme or route
- Not stated
- Category
- Signal multiplicity
- Observed
- Verification
- Verified 9 Sep 2026
- Publication ruling
- Safe with source
- Record status
- Active
- Corpus layer
- Frozen foundational publication (107 signals)
Official source record
https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/apply/first-year-applicants
SRC-062 · retrieved 9 September 2026 · Full JavaScript render, headless Chrome · source record page · supports 3 signals
LimitOne signal describes one institution, programme, market and date. It is not evidence about other programmes, offices or cycles, and it is not a prevalence estimate.
Related signals
Cite this object
Who Gets In? (Elite Careers Strategy), SIG-087 Harvard College, observed 9 September 2026, https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/signals/SIG-087/
Preserve the institution, programme, geography, observation date and limitation. Do not generalise a single signal to an institution-wide or sector-wide rule.