<p>wow..</p>
<p>youd start a charity jus to get into Harvard?</p>
<p>why not starting a charity to help others..... this kid makes me sick.</p>
<p>14-16 AP's?!! That's roughly $1200 in testing fees alone!</p>
<p>My school offers 4 AP's, and the most I've ever heard anybody at our school take was 7. Yet we manage to send 4-7 kids to Harvard (out of 7-15 applicants) every year, along with just as many to MIT and the other Ivies. In other words, there are more important things you can be doing.</p>
<p>Worry more about YOU. Not your courseload. Take the courses that mean the most to you and will challenge you the most within the context of your school. There is no single thing you can do that will get you admitted. Just spend the next 4 years being the best person you can be. Grade and course mongering is not the way to do it.</p>
<p>How do you go to your activities if both of your parents are doctors hideANDseek?</p>
<p>There are lots of busy and time consuming professions besides doctors, Joe. You do what you can. Do activities at school if that's easiest for you. Do them in your village if that's better. Do things in your home, during the summer, at night, whatever. Take a bus, if you want. Get a ride from a friend. Everyone has things like that to deal with, so you need to get around it. Don't do activities for colleges (I wasn't even considering stuff like this!). Just do what you enjoy doing.</p>
<p>jason444: can you read? I said that the only thing I am doing to get into Harvard is the APs. I am not trying to start a charity to get into Harvard--that is what I am doing for other people, not benefit of self.</p>
<p>Sheesh, you guys need to stop being so quick to judge.</p>
<p>cooljoe, </p>
<p>i just don't see where you got the idea that your parents professions could possibly have any <em>dominant</em> influence on your activities. sure, they'll have some influence, which is always a good thing, and places you on an advantage(more opportunities in that field). </p>
<p>just join clubs/sports/anything(orchestra?) for now and also find community service opportunities outside of school. It takes time to develop your resume. It's very very hard to predicit what you'll end up doing in sophomore year. But if you want to start a charity club to help people, that'll be a great idea too, but only if you truly love helping people. </p>
<p>BTW, why does it have to be a charity club?! I'm confused. You can start any club you want.</p>
<p>brian-a total of 7 APs by the end of senior year is not a lot...<em>sigh</em> why does our school offer so many that I'm obligated to take some?</p>
<p>Seven APs is a large number for a school that only offers four.</p>
<p>Seven AP's is almost maxing out at my school.</p>
<p>corranged: It's a charity cuz I just like helping people. Simple as that.</p>
<p>I believe corranged was referring to the APs. You're becoming very aggressive.</p>
<p>Sorry if I was a bit rude, guys.</p>
<p>It's amazing how I got 2 pages of replies in just 1 day--my record.</p>
<p>There's a better strategy than pushing for all those stats to be in the "1% accepted for pure academic reasons" (which, if that relayed fact is really true, is saying you intend to be in essentially the top .1% academically of Harvard applicants)</p>
<p>Do make it your goal to strive for achievable but almost perfect credentials and above-average ECs. But then in addition to that it really helps to have the type of personality which can make an adcom and your interviewer say "He's the type of guy I'd have liked to know in college."</p>
<p>Yes this is subjective, but developing your personality will pay off better in admissions, and in life, than worrying about the last 30 pts on an SAT2.</p>
<p>(i.e. Harvard accepts so few ppl for pure academic reasons mostly because they have interesting or fun ppl applying with nearly the same credentials... and if all you care about is studying you'll be perfectly happy at U of C [or really any other good school] and won't contribute as much to the college community, or the school's ability to feel important and, well, collegiate)</p>
<p>booyakasha</p>
<p>Hey, be nice to the freshman. Anyways, like people have said, with those stats, you can go anywhere. However, I'd venture to say the number of people with stats like that are in the single digits every year AND they wouldn't waste time on a place like this. No offense college confidential and to all us posters!</p>
<p>Do you put the accent on the 'boo', the 'ya', or the 'ka'? I'm playing with it in my head now...BOOyaKAsha sort of works too.</p>
<p>cooljoe, um...may I suggest a nice, soothing cup of cocoa with some Jetpuff marshmallows. And music. And I personally enjoy visiting museums, reading some thought-provoking literature, painting Celtic patterns on the garage door---Living a little is honestly a good idea. Don't be like me and try to drink Clorox at the end of Junior year; that stuff is nasty.</p>
<p>...I haven't researched Harvard's AP credit too much, but if they do take AP credit without capping it, then I doubt they would admit you....with 15 5s, you'll just be occupying space at Harvard...there probably won't be much that Harvard can teach you that you can't teach yourself, and Harvard will realize that others will be able to make use of their resources. Plus, they'd be losing TONS of money by admitting you...I bet they'd assume that you'd graduate early, losing up to 80K for them (I doubt you'd get financial aid with 2 doctor parents...) In addition, if you did take that many APs and score all 5s, I know that I personally wouldn't go to college...it'd be such a waste of money; I'd have already proven that I'm extremely motivated, and I know that I'd be able to do whatever I wanted to do while saving TONS of money (although this might not be a big issue for you since both of your parents are doctors).</p>
<p>hmmm... in that case I should cut down the amount of ap courses I take. </p>
<p>I'm really lucky cuz my school basically offers all of the ap courses except for the new ones and macro.</p>
<p>Anonymous: Harvard only allows its undergrads to graduate in 3 years, no less. Other schools, however, allow undergrads to graduate even in 1 year with a BA.</p>