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<p>just been looking at the accepted threads from previous years and had a quick question. is it even possible to get admitted to harvard with a 3.79 gpa without being an athlete, legacy, or a URM</p>

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<p>Depends on your school. Average API score public state school, fairly close to zero chance if you aren’t in the top decile of your class. If you are in the first 10%, there’s still a chance but no one here can honestly tell you how much so don’t bother with speculation. If you’re in a Private prep academy(those schools that send upwards of 20 people to Harvard each year) or if you come from a high API school index high school then beyond possible to get admitted, yes.</p>

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<p>my school is about the 70th best public school in the nation overall and 14th best public school for scores (AP etc). idk if i am in the top decile though</p>

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<p>Then you are fine. Your school is of great standing. Do not fret this insignificance that you no longer have the power to change. Have a excellent day, sir.</p>

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<p>I just realized I am top 15 percent not ten. Does this make a difference</p>

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<p>i am Albanian. do i qualify as one of the URM?</p>

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<p>Obvi 10char</p>

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<p>No, you don’t.</p>

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<p>and that’s good right? i think this year no Albanian has applied to harvard…</p>

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<p>i didn’t read the above comment.</p>

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<p>I went to a crappy school and got in with a 3.7 GPA and no serious hooks. It can be done.</p>

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<p>but arent you international??</p>

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<p>@misterg
Mind if I ask what your rank percentile was? That matters more than GPA, mostly.</p>

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<p>I suppose it’s true that my international status might have made a difference (the grading system here is more ambiguous over what an A means). And I was in the top 5% of my class.</p>

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<p>My GPA is about a 93-94/100, but as an international, it’s a completely different meaning. I believe a 94 is a 4.0. On the scale, 94-100 is an A, and isn’t a 4.0 in the US based on how many A’s you get rather than your actual average in each subject? I might be off here.</p>

<p>Anyway, top 5% is excellent no matter your GPA. Unless you have like a 3.0, a combination of 3.7 and top 5% is better than a 4.0 and top 25%, say. I’m in the top 15% and I’m not remotely worried about my GPA - way more about my rank.</p>

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<p>is GPA calculated by taking your final average for all courses and then converting that to a number? or taking every A/B you get per term and then converting that to a 4.0/3.0 and then averaging it out?</p>

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<p>The latter.</p>

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<p>^Well in that case my GPA is much higher than the 3.75 or so implied by the 94/100, which is in fact an average of all my grades. Cool.</p>

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Just looked at D’s Albanian Harvard boyfriend’s accepted student CC post. He did not claim URM.</p>

<p>Of course, if you read CC posts over the years, you will see all kinds of URM claims. The question is not whether you can claim it but how a university will react to the claim.</p>

<p>There was a recent CC post in another selective school’s forum. The particular individual had been turned down ED despite indicating Hispanic as a part of their ethnicity. When reading the related posts, it appears the individual had never “lived” as a hispanic yet made that selection. Other CCers have claimed that there is a distinction between the two. If they are correct, then one has to think that a university may look negatively on an applicant if they felt the applicant were trying to play the system.</p>

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<p>I’m confused. 3.75 is a high A- while a 94/100 is a 4.0 and an A. Your two numbers do not jive</p>