“We did our best to throw a great event for Harvard College undergrads, [despite] any scheduling conflicts that arose,” Coser said. “But the prefrosh added more energy.”

One prefrosh was so excited that, as he sat on a friend’s shoulders, he waved a red admitted student folder in the air.

“[Yardfest] was really fun,” said Andrew B. Liu, an admitted student. “It made me change what I thought of Harvard as a party school.”

This year was also the first time the event was held in Old Yard instead of Tercentenary Theater, a change which many students praised because of the additional space for both the picnic dinner and the concert.

During the concert, parents of admitted students crowded around the gates, unable to enter without a student or prefrosh ID.

—Staff writer Monika L.S. Robbins can be reached at mrobbins@college.harvard.edu.

—Staff writer Hana N. Rouse can be reached at hrouse@college.harvard.edu.