<p>@power4giid and shockstot - ok, I just saw my sat 2 score. You probably have my URM spot</p>
<p>hah. Mine is equally bad if it makes you feel any better. Hey, us Asians have to find some way to stick out from the crowd:// sigh. There’s always Yale. Heheh. NOW, I’m a joke applicant;)</p>
<p>@waitingforivy are you going to report your scores unofficially on the applicant status page or just wait for them to receive the official results?</p>
<p>Harvard should receive and add the score to your applicant status page automatically.
I used the free score reports from the CB and it automatically appeared on my page today.</p>
<p>And actually, on the CB website, it says that the score was sent on Nov. 20…</p>
<p>Ah, I see it now. Thanks! And what an unfortunate turn of events…</p>
<p>To the best of my knowledge, you all won’t be discriminated against one bit from URMs. </p>
<p>Frankly Harvard doesn’t have to lower their standards at all for URMs - their attitude for URM’s really comes into play for students who may be minorities but also fit their applicant criteria and may also be from a rural area not known for Harvard students.</p>
<p>Just don’t lie on your race question (like some were suggesting), I think that could be an automatic reject when your interviewer met you and you weren’t black…</p>
<p>on the bright side, you have a better chance of getting accepting than being rejected (:</p>
<p>Are you kidding me? I attend an 90% Hispanic high school and can safely say that many of my classmates and I are very disadvantaged. It’s not that our parents don’t care about our education, but they don’t realize how many different factors determine college acceptance. Just the other day I was studying for an AP Calc test at 2 am when my dad got mad at me for being up so late and started ranting that I spend too much time on school and extracurricular activities, that I should just get a job instead! As long as I’m not failing a class, they’re happy. I have to BEG for things like SAT prep books, or to take the SAT multiple times because my parents, like many Hispanic immigrants, don’t understand how competitive colleges are, and I can safely say that the MAJORITY of kids at my school are in the same situation.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to rant and I’m sure you meant no harm by your comment, but please don’t assume that most minority students are not disadvantaged. The reality is actually quite the opposite.</p>
<p>Regular Decision = fail. :(</p>
<p>IMO there are advantages and disadvantages to being any minority race - from both the perspective of a student’s home-life and through the eyes of the admissions officer. It’s seriously about playing the hand you were dealt and understanding the image Harvard is trying to create. They want diversity for fair reasons; my alumni interviewer explained to me that Harvard will get “perfect, carbon-copy students every year” - the kicker for those that get in are that they can contribute SOMETHING others can’t. The Harvard idea is about bringing different people together who when together are capable of pushing the limits on various topics… If you’re going to Harvard, they are using you for your intellectual motivation and self-drive to maintain their status as the most profoundly innovating institution in the world. </p>
<p>I was accepted EA to the Harvard Class of 2016… </p>
<p>But I’m choosing instead to go to West Point.</p>