<p>Probably IMO gold medalists from a lot of different places applied to Harvard. How have MOPpers fared so far, according to this year's SCEA results news?</p>
<p>"you are no longer nervous... lol"
True, I should change my screen name, lol.</p>
<p>I'm a Siemens semifinalist, and I got in.</p>
<p>Although I have to admit, I'm not going into science/math.</p>
<p>i was an isef 4th place grand award winner AND a siemens seminfialist. and i got deferred. i applied for english and stated that i wanted to do pre-med/science research at the same time. so idk, im confused.</p>
<p>looking at the people who got admitted from my school, it seems that harvard has no respect for math and science.</p>
<p>btw, to Crimson2011: were u a siemens/intel math/science applicant? (sorrry if u posted that info in another thread, i must have missed it). what were ur stats?</p>
<p>SAT 2400
sat 2 800 800 800
1/814
gpa 4.0</p>
<p>siemens regional finalist
RSI
NASA SHARP
robotics champion
published in two journals
USAMO
presenter at american physical society/american cancer society
etc....</p>
<p>crimson2011: WAIT, and u were deferred????</p>
<p>yes/.......</p>
<p>crimson2011: wow, sorry! i thought i was qualified....but you were much more qualified than me. my conclusion is that harvard EA admissions is ridiculous.</p>
<p>good luck in the regular decision rounds!! =)</p>
<p>Harvard did not pay much attention to ecs this year...:(</p>
<p>two year isef winner and other science stuff. got in.</p>
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<p>What kind of courses are people taking, and what other purely scholastic credentials do they have? (I can see that the person I'm quoting mentioned a GPA and a class rank, but I don't know from what kind of school in what kind of courses.) </p>
<p>Best of luck to all of you. By the reality of life, not all Harvard applicants will get into Harvard, so the Harvard admission officers have to make very fine distinctions among outstanding applicants. For the applicants who consider Harvard plan A, but don't get in, here's wishing you a great college career at your plan B college.</p>
<p>^But therein lies the rub. Are they making the right distinctions? I wouldn't doubt that many of those science people will become incredibly successful at what they do, more so than many other admits...</p>
<p>Harvard might be taking the RSI/ISEF/Olympiad people for granted, seeing as how they always get such a big pile of them anyways. I predict that they'll take them all regular, and they'll all still flock to the Big H.</p>
<p>Look at last year's EA thread. This isn't suprising anymore.</p>
<p>watever. i got defered. i have the science stuff (siemens, jshs, publish abtract...) but the part that gets me is that i have tasp. maybe my humanities and my science awards clashed and took each other out?</p>
<p>I heard from a grapevine that 11 RSI kids made it through. But I could be wrong.</p>
<p>well, im taking 6 APs this year, and iv'e taken 4 throughout 9th-11th grade. iv'e taken a total of 9 science courses (all honors or AP level).</p>
<p>i dont know,i just think its all very ambiguous and crazy, and im hoping i can do well in STS</p>
<p>crimson2011: this is a very random question....but are u by any chance asian (i am). im just wondering if there is some type of trend or not.</p>
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<p>It wouldn't show a strong understanding of statistics to draw that kind of conclusion from that kind of data, and it takes a strong understanding of statistics--the science of data--to do science at its best. </p>
<p>I'm beginning to see a pattern here, and it is not at all a pattern of Harvard disregarding math and science ability among applicants. </p>
<p>What anecdotes are the rest of you hearing from your friends? I'm still curious about what kind of school course work most of the applicants are doing.</p>