<p>Harvard accepts about 40% of legacies that apply.</p>
<p>@sweettpi do they really? Wow, I never knew that! Thank you so much!</p>
<p>@sweettpi: …Where did you get that number? The only one I found was 30% in 2011, and I don’t think it’s higher now.</p>
<p>Even with the triple legacy, the OP’s academics are so far below the average for Harvard that I don’t think it will happen. Though, activities and ACT look good.</p>
<p>I think Harvard is a very high reach for you, even considering your legacy status (unless you get those SATIIs up a lot).</p>
<p>It looks like Sweetpii’s number is from 2004. The most recent one I see is May 2011, which is a 30% legacy admit rate.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any input regarding the other schools I asked for chances on?</p>
<p>For the Ivys I think you got to get a SAT score better like 750+ in each. Harvard is very competitive. Generally the GPA and SAT II are 50-50 factor for determining your college reach . Also the legacies might get you a help of 25 percent in getting into those colleges (if a lot of those applying has scores same as you). Harvard is the best but you got to score higher in SAT. You have a very high chance of getting into Harvard if you score better. </p>
<p>You might consider Stanford or Princeton too.</p>
<p>But get a better score…</p>
<p>What do you mean I meed a better score? I got a 35 on the ACT - that’s nearly perfect…</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh, you must mean the SAT II scores.</p>
<p>Just having gone through this process as a parent, I would advise to apply to quite a few schools esp. if they are a reach or high reach school. My daughter applied to 4 ivies, got into one, waitlisted at another and rejected by two. Got into UNC and William and Mary and was weightlisted at Duke and Vanderbilt. Rejected by Tulane…that made no sense. Got a couple of scholarships at other good schools for almost full tuition Her weighted GPA was 5.5 and unweighted 3.8. Combined SAT scores of 2300+, took 9 AP classes, tons of leadership positions, plays an instrument, plays a sport, had 300+ hours of community service, and was ranked somewhere around 6th in a class of 300+ students. The whole process can also be a function of who you are up against in any particular year from your high school or geographic area. Seeing where many of her very bright classmates did or did not get in, it was not always logical or expected. My best advice would be to define what makes you unique and special vs. a similar candidate and kick butt on your essays. Don’t take rejections personally!</p>
<p>the triple legacy deff helps with Harvard so apply and rock an interview.</p>
<p>If you get above 750’s on the SAT II’s your taking this year, i think you have a good chance at Emory, Cornell, and UNC, and you are almost a definite for U of Miami.
I dont know much about Vanderbilt or Wake Forest… and Columbia its 50/50 i live near NYC and know ppl with worse stats that got in but at the same time it was on very rare occasion</p>
<p>Thank you, @3kids2mom and @Flamengo2009. Your advice is wonderful!</p>
<p>Study really hard for when you take the SAT again ( you need better scores for Harvard). You can easily get into Chapel-Hill(they take most people with 1800and up SAT. Continue school involvement and if you can take more classes in senior year do so. Miami is known for partying. It would not be the best place for hard-core studying. It is hard to say for the others. Write a really strong essay and critique to each. I would start applications this summer. If you can take summer school or do academic enrichment during summer it will help admission chances. Show colleges who you are instead of telling them. Understand why you are choosing to take part in the activities and classes that you do and reflect upon it in your application in some way.</p>
<p>I’m assuming that when everyone’s saying the SAT they mean the subject tests? My ACT scores need no improvement at all - I got a near perfect score of 35.</p>
<p>Bumpity bump bump bump.</p>
<p>bump!</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>Bump please?</p>
<p>are you sure your GPA is a 3.46/87? I’m almost positive that a 3.5 numerically correlates to a 90. Not sure tbh lol</p>
<p>You will not get into UNC. Sorry, getting in OOS requires a higher GPA.</p>
<p>Wake Forest, Emory & Miami are a match.</p>
<p>The rest are reaches. Harvard triple legacy doesn’t secure *****</p>
<p>Most schools do not superscore ACT, but 35 is already above the 75% for all these schools anyway.</p>