<p>Anyone who was ACCEPTED to Harvard undergrad have anything lower than a 3.8 gpa?
If so, when did the grades that brought the gpa down come? Junior year? frosh year? </p>
<pre><code>IF SO, i'm assuming u had a rather large hook, huh?
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<p>Just curious, please don't not answer, and please don't refer me to scour the polluted acceptance threads</p>
<p>to add to this: anyone get accepted with an ACT lower than 30? </p>
<p>… i have a 4.0 gpa, 28 ACT and i’m a double legacy. would that be a big enough hook? ;)</p>
<p>As for the 3.8 GPA, im not an expert on this but using common sense, it probably depends if the applicant came from a highly reputable high school (aka something like Exeter or Andover or just a competitive private school in general) and thus is subject to grade deflation, or just a typical high school with a student who took a heavy course load (3/4/5/6 APs?). In the end there is so much to consider that a definitive answer cannot be made.</p>
<p>As for the 28 ACT, it is fairly low for Harvard standards from what I have seen; however, the double legacy adds a significant weight to your application, or at least that is what Id assume. However i’m sure they would like to see a higher score, maybe try your hand at the SAT? </p>
<p>Though, like I have been told, there is so much to consider. I myself am middle of the road qualified, 2240, 3.95 yada yada yada but who the hell knows if they will even look at my app twice or fall in love with me right away…</p>
<p>Okay. I applied SCEA and I got accepted and yes, my GPA was under 3.8. (Which is one of the reasons I keep having to read my email and acceptance letter to prove to myself this actually happened haha)
My GPA was/is 3.72, 4.21 weighted. My “bad grades” happened sophomore year. Freshman year average was an A, Junior average was A, Senior was/is A. But in sophomore year I got a few B’s, and even a <gasp> C. Yep, I got a C in Honors Chemistry and I still got into Harvard.
There is no formula, but when they say “This is a hollistic process”, I know it sounds crazy but they mean it. In terms of hooks, I guess I’m a URM? (mixed race) But other than that, I got nothin’. You can get in with “lower” grades, but you have to have a darn good reason for it, and it obviously can’t be something consistent. In my case, I think the adcom saw that that huge drop in sophomore year wasn’t indicative of my performance and capabilities, so they relied more on my letters, my extracurriculars, and then the interviews, which I had two of. I had two probably because of my grades.
That, and I think I just got lucky with my regional rep, that he was willing to fight for my admittance in the adcom. He really is an amazing guy. </gasp></p>
<p>SO um. Yeah. It can happen. Even if you’re not a quadruple legacy, URM, donated 28349729 million. I don’t feel like posting the rest of my stats, but I think you can assume they had to be pretty good for this amazing opportunity to actually happen to me, even with an f’ing C in chemistry.</p>
<p>A friend of mine with around 1700 SATs and under 3.9 GPA was deferred. I know he’s a minority but really, is that normal!?? I suppose he could have been lying…</p>
<p>oops, what I meant by that was I’m surprised he wasn’t flat-out rejected</p>
<p>Weighted or unweighted? I think I had a 3.74-ish UW at the end of junior year, with a 3.77-ish UW by the end of first semester senior year. My weighted GPA was much, much higher, though. So I’m not sure if that’s the GPA you’re looking at, but I might be such a person.</p>
<p>I didn’t have under a 28, but I did have a 31, which is not much better.
My GPA is a 3.978 tho…
And I am a first generation Afghan American, sooooooo yeahhhh lol</p>
<p>I do think a 31 is actually much better. The difference between 27 and 31 is the same as between 31 and 35. I wouldn’t put yourself down that much!</p>