Chance me at Harvard My Top Choice Please!!!

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<p>Please read this and chance me at the school I am currently looking at. If you can please also suggest some schools I should look at. Thank you for your time.</p>

<p>About Me:
[ul]
[<em>] Male
[</em>] From Afghanistan
[<em>] URM
[</em>] GPA : I would say around 3.75-3.8 UW
[li] I speak Farsi as my primary language and English as secondary. [/li][/ul]</p>

<p>SAT:
Practice Tests and my predicted is a 2150. I know thats low and I am practicing to raise it.</p>

<p>School Information:
[ul]
[<em>] Public
[</em>] Class Size is around 380-450 +/-
[<em>] Sends 1-3 Kids to ivy league schools.
[li] </em>P.S. It is possible that I may finish up my last year of high school at Phillip Exeter Academy. Depending on how much financial aid I receive. [/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Financial Information:
[ul]
[<em>] Low income student
[</em>] Both parents work
[li] Will absolutely need financial aid[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Classes:
[ul]
[<em>] Junior Year:
- AP Microeconomics
- AP Psychology
- AP Environmental Science
- USH
- Honors Chemistry
- American Literature
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Arabic 2
- Alg 2
[</em>] Senior Year (Predicted):
- AP Human Geography
- AP Statistics
- AP Calculus
- AP English
- Arabic 3
- AP Psychics
- AP Macroeconomics (Self Study) Possibly
[/ul]
Note: I will be self-studying Pre-Cal this summer.</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities:
[ul]
[<em>] Vice-President of Business Club
[</em>] President of The Guilford Livestrong Chapter
The</a> Guilford Livestrong Chapter |
[<em>] Member of the Harvard Free Culture Movement/Group
[</em>] Member of the Harvard Interactive Media Group
[<em>] Member of Arabic Club
[</em>] Worked in trying to draft Lessig (a Stanford Law and previous Harvard professor) for Congress. I was part of the technical committee. My job was to
blog, create rss feeds, website development, and ads.
[<em>] Possible Law Internship at Harvard Law
[</em>] Internship at local science research lab. (I have applied and have a good feeling I will get this hopefully)
[<em>] Internship at Yale Engineering for Minorities. (Once again I have applied and have a good feeling I will hopefully get this because I believe I am the only Afghan applying, if that helps?)
[</em>] Running for Board of Ethics in my town and even thinking for running for city council.
[<em>] Will be hopefully attending Harvard Summer School Program were I plan to take a course on politics and law. (I have been accepted just waiting on financial aid)
[</em>] Member of Track and Field. Since spring season of my sophomore year in high school.
[li] Varsity Debate Team[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Extra Information:
[ul]
[<em>] I have had an interview with a Harvard Representatives.
[</em>] I have meet with two other Harvard Representatives who said that my application would be "interesting."
[/ul]</p>

<p>Area of Interest:
[ul]
[<em>] Law, Politics, and Government
[</em>] Science (Biomedical Engineering)
[li] Aerospace Engineering[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Awards:
[ul]
[li] AP Scholar (I will be taking the AP Exams this May and predict to get this award hopefully)[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Job Experience:
[ul]
[<em>] I have worked at Subway since the summer before my freshman year of high school. My family is low-income so I work to help support my family. I work mainly during the weekends / during school vacations and breaks. But during my summer I usually work the most around 60+ hours a week.
[</em>] I am assistant manager at Subway.
[/ul]</p>

<p>Essays / Recommendations:
[ul]
[<em>] Hopefully good from all my teachers and guidance counselor.
[</em>] My essay will be about how many hardships I have faced, in my life growing up Muslim, and post 9/11. It will be about how politics and the situations I have been put into have helped me mature and differ from everybody else.
[li] It is possible that I will hopefully also be having a Harvard Professor write me a recommendation.[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Colleges I am Looking at:
[ul]
[<em>] Harvard Top Choice
[li] Duke[/li][</em>] UVA
[<em>] UCONN (Safety)
[</em>] Dartmouth
[<em>] Princeton
[</em>] Connecticut College
[<em>] NYU
[</em>] BC or BU
[<em>] Georgetown
[</em>] Brown
[/ul]</p>

<p>Thank you for taking the time to read this, please chance me! I know this is long and I am sorry. Thank you and I really appreciate it.</p>

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<p>bump bump bump!! chance me please!!</p>

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<p>I would like to add if this helps that I am part of the MIT Free Culture Group too.</p>

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<p>you have a great chance and your application truly is interesting.</p>

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<p>Why does Harvard describe all of its diverse candidates as interesting?
They need a better word, it's unusual to say the least.</p>

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<p>so you mean unusual as in a good way or bad?</p>

<p>any other chances please?</p>

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<p>I don't know about you.</p>

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<p>Good stats but it's still early to tell....</p>

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<p>thank you, what else would you recommend I do to give myself a better chance?</p>

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<p>Insha'allah</p>

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<p>thank you akahmed. :-). where are you from?</p>

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<p>i think you have a shot. and i would take the world interesting as good, not bad. but thats just me.</p>

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<p>My family is originally from Pakistan, 200 years ago, then they moved to East Africa, stayed for 100 years, and now we are here in the US. I am also applying to Harvard and the mental stress is killing me. :)</p>

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<p>hey smartafkid, I am from Afghanistan too. This is the first time I am reading an Afghans chance me post. I'am jealous. lol Alot of your stats are very similar to mine. Like your APs and possilbe SAT score, even your essay topic. I hate you (i mean it in a good way) because I though I was the only Afghan applying and thought I would really standout.
Like akamed said, Insha'allah you will get into Harvard. Tashwish naco :)</p>

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<p>mar1ami were in Afghanistan are you from? I was originally born in Pakistan, but I lived in Afghanistan and my citizenship is with them. I thought I was the only afghan on this forum but I guess I was wrong :-)</p>

<p>and yes I can't wait to apply to Harvard</p>

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<p>I’m from Jawsjaan province.The town I lived in is very close to Masari-sharif (like 6 miles). I was born and raised there until the Taliban regime took over in 1996. We moved to the US seven years ago. What part of Afghanistan are you/family from? How long have you been in the US?</p>

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<p>We lived very close to Kabul, I too moved a while ago. I have been in the United States for about 8 years now. I wish I could go back and visit but it is still to dangerous.</p>

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<p>Yeah, your right it is too dangerous. I am not that informed about the whole college process, so here it goes. What does URM mean? Is it a good thing?
Thanks</p>

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<p>URM = Under Represented Minority and yes in my opinion it is a good thing.</p>