<p>I am getting really nervous. Do you think I will get in???</p>
<p>Personal:
State: FL
School Type: Private (usually sends few grads to top schools each year
Ethnicity: Asian-American
Gender: Male
Other Background Info: Low-income (don't know if this factors in since Harvard is need blind)</p>
<p>Stats:
GPA weighted: 4.09/4.30
SAT: 2160 (750 M, 690 CR, 720 Wr)
SAT II: 800 Math L2, 770 Chem, 730 US History
APs taken/scores: AP Chem 5, AP US History 5, AP Spanish Lang 5, AP Eng. Lang. 3
Rank or % estimate: School doesn't rank but definately in top 5-10%</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: first was on the conflict i experienced with my identity as a muslim in America after 9/11 (teachers said it was great and a guy who was accepted EA to Harvard thought mine was better than his); second was on a experience I had shadowing a doctor this summer and how it convinced me that medicine was what I wanted to dedicate my life to
Teacher/Counselor Recs: Should be very strong, all of them know me very well and liked me a lot</p>
<p>Important ECs:
President of Habitat for Humanity
Editor-in-Chief of School Literary Magazine
Co-Captain of Football team; 3 Varsity letters
Residential Advisor in my dorm
Vice-President of Amnesty International
NHS</p>
<p>Awards:
AP Scholar with Honor
Cum Laude
award for highest GPA in class for sophmore year
AIME Qualifer
School Honor Roll
NHS</p>
<p>So far: ID acceptance from Rice, likely letter UVA, multicultural admit at Vanderbilt, accepted at Georgia Tech
I hope this doesn't look like i am bragging but I honestly want to know your opinion.
Thanks in advance</p>
<p>I think you have great chances, but this is Harvard after all, you just never know and you can't count on an acceptance. Rejection rate of 94% = tons of arbitrary and subjective decisions to which we are not privy.</p>
<p>Hey dude, first of all CHILL!
I think you have a pretty good chance... depending on which Ivies you applied to... and since you are in the Harvard Forum... may I venture a guess at harvard? In which case I can only give you an analysis against myself:
ECs: you slaughtered me... I have a lot of clubs, but not many that's nationally recognised :)
Awards: Again, slaughtered me, I only have 2 AP tests :)
SAT: 4 tries? Is that a mispost? Now I kind of wish I took mine again :P Never the less, a pretty decent range...
SATII: Really good :)
Essays: more meaningful than mine...
On the whole, I think you have a better chance of getting in than I do... good luck anyhow :)</p>
<p>thanks
its kinda hard to chill since its getting so close
the really competitive schools that I applied to are Harvard, Stanford, Penn, and Duke
and yes I did take the SATs 4 times because my critical reading score was stuck in the low 600s and I knew I was capable of at least high 600s if not low 700s
i guess what i'm really worried about is that i have no national distinction (ie Intel, Siemens, etc.) and that fact that I took the SAT I 4 times when Harvard recommends no more than 2 and my scores are still below most people on the Harvard forum
does anyone else have any opinions?</p>
<p>My friend took the SAT 5 times and took the ACT as well (didn't get much higher than you either). He's at Harvard this year. Didn't seem to worry his other colleges either.</p>
<p>^very funny. Again, SAT dosen't determine your acceptance. If it does... well, no one beside the 2400 people would have a chance at an Ivie :) I mean, all your scores are over or really close to 700, which is way over the national average. Beside, you have so many ecs! Hey... I don't even know what the Seimen or Intel is (What is it anyway? I keep hearing people mentioning them as if they are HuGE deal or something...?)</p>
<p>i some national and state recognition in my ecs
our school's Habitat chapter is nationally recognized and our literary magazine had won national awards
Literary magazine has won awards from American Scholastic Press and Columbia Scholastic
Football team made it to state finals but lost
and I can also speak 5 languages (English, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, Spanish)
i am just throwing this out there to see if it has any effect...</p>
<p>I think you have a lot of great things going for you but it depends how well you were able to communicate all this info on your applications. Right now it's a big jumble. Hopefully on your application it wasn't all thrown out there. A focused list of passions and interests would really make you a tough candidate to reject.</p>