<p>why the **** did you even bother posting this? your stats make the rest of us feel like complete nobodies. oh yeah, i'll be willing to bet that you'll get at least a 2300 on the SAT. Your first time taking it?</p>
<p>wow. some people have to relax...</p>
<p>Nazi kkk rally? o_O. Anyway your stats look good, and what did you get on the SATs in the end?</p>
<p>hahaha the monster thread returns....</p>
<p>Xjayz:</p>
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<p>I hope this is true </p>
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If you were pursuing Intel research and did better in your science classes in high school and your summer activities were geared toward research
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<p>I hope college do not based their decision on these facts alone.</p>
<p>My kid has done research and attended RSI. he has applied to Intel/Siemens competitions. He has taken courses beyond APs in math/science/humanities. He is very involved with school newspaper, Model UN, Debate and had done very well as he has won many leadership positions and awards in competitions. He is very well involved in politics as he is a president of the political club. He is taking International relation and economics class and applying as a major in politics and economics. I hope colleges do not over look his achievements and just focus on his math/science achievements. After all he has accomplished in varied fields as he is a multi dimensional kids who has achieved many awards in multiple domains. Math/science and research at RSI is not the only major part of his profile. He has more passions that include journalism, debate, politics, and community service where he has put more hours and has won many national level awards. That is the reason he is applying as a economics and politics major.</p>
<p>and we need to get on topic....</p>
<p>so to the OP, go for harvard!!!</p>
<p>2170 is high for an asian student considering that most asians have almost no extracurriculars (except for asian club, multicultural club, violin competition, etc...)</p>
<p>Model UN? Debate Captain? Mock Trial Team? Nice man. I loved those events. Those were coincidentally also my leadership positions. (I think that's also what helped to get me into Cornell.) Finally, something fresh that goes against the usual asian stereotypes (1600 SAT, bad recommendations, violin, piano club, asian club, math league, etc...)</p>
<p>oh and btw, I'm also asian (3/4)</p>
<p>I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that your teenage years pretty much sucked. Do you even sleep? Not sure an 18 year old with a resume of a retiree can tell anyone he's had a quality childhood.</p>
<p>I blame your parents for even allowing you to partake in all this crap (which is exactly what all that junk is - crap) simply to kiss some admissions committee's ass.</p>
<p>Mock Trial, Debate Captain, Model UN? Let me know what in god's name that has to do with anything in life? Having gone to college, both mediocre and elite, and obtained a high-profile, well-paying job, I can tell you this - none of that junk has anything to do with college or getting you a decent paying job. Standardized Admissions Exams are also nothing more than corporate propaganda - collusion between college prep companies and unversities.</p>
<p>Take it from me....</p>
<p>2.1 GPA in HS
21 on ACT
No SAT</p>
<p>U.S. Army - Sergeant, Military Police Corps.
BA, Economics - University of Illinois at Chicago (3rd Tier)
MA, Public Policy and Administration - Northwestern University
Certificate in the Teaching of Economics - University of Illinois - Chicago</p>
<p>I'm so glad I didn't want to go to Harvard as a kid. I got a better "education" in the military than I did in college.</p>
<p>Do I think college is important and a worthy endeavor? Absolutely. But, all the stuff kids do to get into "top schools" is lunacy. US News and World Report is not the be all, end all resource for finding a college. Kids need to enjoy just being kids. You got your whole life to be an adult. There's a reason why they call 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 year olds TEENAGERS.</p>
<p>i cannot understand for the life of me why you think that being active in high school and being happy are mutually exclusive. just because you hated school and never did any extracurriculars doesn't mean that everyone else feels the same way. in fact, i would argue that it's downright offensive to impose your conception of the "good life" on us, as though our choices to be very involved in high school activities were either irresponsible or futile. i think physics, debate, math, etc. is <em>fun</em>. way more fun than getting drunk on the weekends or whatever you think the "ideal teenager's life" entails.</p>
<p>and just so's you know, i posted a thread like this in the harvard forum, and my stats, while not as accomplished as thelittleone's, are strong enough that i would know what it's like to spend most of your free time doing activities.</p>
<p>this thread offends so many people...</p>
<p>Lol...if you don't get in....like no one would...</p>
<p>thelittleone, some people are just jealous and trying to defend their own egos by looking for trouble. Don't worry about offending people just by living your own way of life. That would be silly, since a) it's your life, do whatever you want, it's not like you're purposely trying to make others feel bad and b) one can never please everyone.</p>
<p>iostream, nicely put. Thanks :-)</p>
<p>Although I agree generally with what iostream posted, it's very important for the OP to write really good/creative essays because I have seen people with stronger stats get rejected from Harvard. The Ivies could cares less about scores/grades/academic accomplishments after a certain point and would rather pick a football captain with humorous essays over a math/physics olympiad winner who maybe only had say debate awards and no personality. That's the reality of life.</p>
<p>i hate to bring this apparently offending thread back to life but i just saw your article in Imagine. please tell me you DID get in....because if you didnt...</p>
<p>You all need a reality-check. Read The Overachievers by Alexandria Robbins and make a pledge not to raise your children like this unless they WANT to sacrifice their life completely.</p>
<p>im guessing the OP never played maplestory</p>
<p>Metric, you are in no position to make such an argument. "Sacrificing their life completely?" That is the most absurd statement I have ever seen. Just because you're jealous and can't make such high achievements, please don't degrade those of others.</p>
<p>Kyzan - I am far from jealous, his accomplishments are significant. I don't care about making such high achievements because I haven't been presented with the opportunities to achieve and compete at such levels when it comes to his skill with instruments. I'm not degrading him - but I want to be clear: You must WANT to do all of this and deal with the high levels of stress and unhealthy amounts of sleep. People shouldn't feel compelled to have to be at this level to get into Harvard.</p>
<p>Metric- What you say is true, people should not feel compelled to have such high achievements. But yet, there are those of us who have a natural affinity for mastery of such a high level, and we should not condemn them. </p>
<p>Yes, I also lack many opportunities that "big city folk" can tap into, and I can understand where you are comming from.</p>
<p>If it's a reality check you want, "The Overachievers" will hardly bring one about. I do not know a single student at Whitman who can even begin to compare against those highlighted by Robbins' book, and none of my friends at Whitman know anyone at their school like that either.</p>
<p>Robbins found the worse possible-case scenarios to shadow. She was lucky (maybe she'd been waiting for the right moment for years) to have found so many "interesting" personalities in one school year.</p>