<p>I'm a certified Native American girl and I am currently a junior. I received a 2400 on the SAT, an 800 on both the SAT II Math and WH exams, and a 34 on the ACT. I will hopefully have a 3.7 next year when I apply to colleges; I had a 3.5 freshman year, and a 3.6 sophomore year, but I will hopefully have a 4.0 at the end of this year- then I'll hopefully get all A's senior year. I will have taken 7 AP classes and the rest honors classes (AP WH, AP Gov, AP English, AP English Part 2, AP Bio, AP Spanish, AP Calc)... I had a low GPA freshman and sophomore year because of ADD and bullying.
I do not wish to share the name of the site, but I created a successful website for teens being bullied. I have 2000+ community service hours because I volunteer at a soup kitchen and a nursing home. Last summer I attended the Harvard Secondary School and received college credits and all A's. I have won poetry competitions and a Bronze medal in 9th grade, a Silver medal in 10th grade, and a Gold metal in 11th grade for the National Spanish exam, along with a community service award. I am an assistant front end manager at a grocery store, and a captain of mock trial, literary club, and environmental club. I know I'll have stellar recommendations and a great admissions essay.
Basically, my question is, will I have a chance at Harvard? I know that less than 6% of applicants are accepted, and probably 90% of applicants have perfect stats. I'll have a much better and realistic chance at getting into Cornell (plus my uncle went there, I know I'm not a legacy but it's another tie). I've dreamt of Harvard though, like every other American.
Based on my ethnicity, SAT scores, EC's, ADD and story, do I have a chance? I go to the #1 public school in my state; its very competitive and renowned. Several students from my school have been accepted into Harvard in the past. Does my low GPA ruin my chances? Maybe I'll have to settle for Cornell...</p>
<p>With the ECs and recommendations and ethnicity and stuff, it seems like you’d have a good chance.</p>
<p>Of course not. Harvard and Cornell are reachable.</p>
<p>You seem highly qualified. You never know with admissions, but apply to the schools you are interested in. I’m not an adcom, but IMHO, I think you are an interesting applicant that will be notced.</p>
<p>Native American and 2200+ is almost guaranteed anywhere. Good luck!</p>
<p>Didn’t you post this already?</p>
<p>It seems like the only thing you find on this website is people saying I have a all perfect test scores, started my own company, and a certified minority, and have an unreasonable number of community service hours, do I have a chance at Harvard?"
Number one, if you are not lying like 95% of the people on this site who post posts like you just did, than yes.
Number two, it is INCREDIBLY offensive to say you will have to “settle” for Cornell. Cornell is an excellent school and is incredibly competitive. If you call Cornell “settling” you are going to annoy a lot of people (like me) who have worked incredibly hard in high school and would love to go to a school of a similar caliber to Cornell. I hope you keep this in mind. I am very offended by this and I am sure a lot of other people are. If you want to move forward and have people like you, you should try using some decorum.</p>
<p>Good luck with your college search
-arb1995</p>
<p>Once the acceptance rate is below 15% or so, it’s really hard to tell. You should definitely look at other schools also. Going to an Ivy League doesn’t automatically indicate happiness. I agree with arb1995. It’s incredibly rude to say that you might have to ‘settle’ for Cornell. Also, stop making several topics with the same question.</p>
<p>Additionally, I do not particularly like the undergrad education offered by Harvard. Most of the classes are taught by TA’s, they have a huge grade inflation problem, and once you get in it is impossible to fail out. One should aspire to go to the best school that is bast for them, not the school with the best name. There are tons of non-ivies that are indeed equal or better than their ivy counterparts.
Such schools include Notre Dame, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, Georgetown, Williams, Amherst, Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice, etc.
The list goes on and on.
Go where you are happy, and keep in mind, no one “settles” for Cornell. And if they think Cornell is “settling”, they are up for a life of disappointment and frustration.</p>
<p>There was a featured thread similar to this with a URM 2400 who was wondering about his chances at hyps. He later came back to say he got in everywhere. I’m not implying you are the same person, but you have very, very good chances everywhere you apply.</p>