Chance For Harvard Please!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>So just to be clear, this is NOT me. It is simply what I hope my app looks like by senior year. I legitimately feel like I can accomplish this by senior year. </p>

<p>Stats:
4.3 weighted GPA
4th or 5th in class (highly competitive public school in New England)
As for SAT/ACT scores, I'm hoping for somewhere around 2300/34
800s on U.S. History, Literature, and Spanish with Listening SAT IIs</p>

<p>AP Classes:
- World History - 4
- European History (not offered by school but taken online) - 4
- U.S. History - 4
- U.S. Gov - 5
- Human Geography (self-study over summer) - 5
- Comparative Gov. - 5 (self-study over summer)
- Macroeconomics (not offered by school but taken online) - 4
- Biology - 4
- English Language - 4
- English Literature - 5
- Spanish - 5</p>

<p>College courses at local state school (through dual enrollment):
- Composition 1 (I've already done this and gotten an A)
- Public Speaking
- Mandarin Chinese 1
- Mandarin Chinese 2</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
- 4 years of student government (active member freshman year, secretary sophomore year, vice junior year, president senior year)
- Appointed student representative on town's school committee (3 years)
- Class officer (secretary freshman year, (nothing sophomore year), vice junior year and senior year)
- Founder and President of Model UN team (2 years)
- Drama - starred in 4 productions and directed 3 with local my Shakespeare company</p>

<p>Community Service:
- 4 years with Bridging Lives organization (mentoring an at-risk little girl in my town - once a week every week since freshman year)
- Special Olympics (volunteer at boston event every year for 4 years, but only total of 12 hrs)</p>

<p>Summers:
- Participating in local Shakespeare company productions and other plays
- above-mentioned college courses at local state college
- internship with local state representative </p>

<p>Titles/Awards:
- Founder of a small but successful social networking site (different than facebook though)
- National AP Scholar by end of Junior year</p>

<p>Chances? Harvard is my dream school, as my passions are politics and theatre.</p>

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<p>SAT/ACT scores? SAT II scores?</p>

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<p>I added my prospective scores, sorry about that!
Also, what areas can I improve on?</p>

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<p>bumpbumpbump</p>

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<p>Harvard accepts 6 students out of every 100 applications it receives. With those kind of odds, many valedictorians with 4.0 unweighted GPA’s and 2400 SAT’s are rejected. Rather than ask strangers to “chance you”, you should be asking yourself: What unique talents and abilities can I bring to Harvard? What else, besides my GPA and great extracurriculars, will make my application standout from the crowd? What separates me from the 35,000 other students who are also applying? When you have answered those questions, you will know what chance you have.</p>

<p>BTW: As your ACT/SAT is just an estimate of where you think you might score, it’s really too early for you to be asking this question.</p>

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<p>Gibby - I have asked myself that, trust me. I’m just looking for some outside objective opinions, that’s all :wink: Plus, copying and pasting the same answer over and over again is a little repetitive, am I right?</p>

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<p>You’re correct. But given the odds of getting into Harvard, no one (aside from an Adcom) can predict anyone’s odds of getting in – so it really is futile to ask the question.</p>

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<p>Very low chances with those ECs. Harvard mainly accepts very unique applicants who they think can bring something special to their school.</p>

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<p>I highly doubt it, as your ec’s are in the lower group of the applicant pool of people applying to harvard. </p>

<p>If you don’t know your test scores yet, it’s kind of unrealistic to even post a harvard chance thread. But as far as your extracurriculars go, I very highly doubt that you could get in with what you have right now.</p>