No joke, it’s ridiculously high conversion off the WL if you get an II. The only ones I know that didn’t from past reddit threads were the ones that waffled on if they’d commit
Last cycle's 100% A rate from WL interviews seems like an outlier - 20-21 and 21-22 had a mix of As, Rs, WLs, data on here is a small sample so weird stuff happens - but it's definitely a good sign
The people that didn’t get it from those precious cycles said in reddit threads that they were non-commital in the interview. Like multiple of them. I’m a reapplicant from the 2020-21 cycle and I rode the HLS WL and followed it like a hawk back then
I think my "why Harvard" was similar. I said something along the lines of "A lot of people grow up dreaming of coming to this school, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't one of them. Even more than that, though, the size of Harvard's class brings with it a diversity of backgrounds and thought that you can't find as easily anywhere else. I remember reading about conservative students in the past enjoying now-Senator Elizabeth Warren's classes when she taught here. That coupled with Harvard having the highest student veteran population of any school make it a natural fit."
I have something like that too. I spoke to someone from HLS and they spoke about the collegiality at HLS and how they like diversity of thought. I also liked the large alumni base. I also mentioned their clinics in my essay and fedsoc.