<p>hi, im applying as an engineering major since im a girl </p>
<p>my GPA is 4.5 weighted, im in the top 5% of my graduating class (total 23 students)
my school does not offer any AP classes, but I will be taking 2 AP tests at the end of my senior year.
I take all the honors classes my school offers, and am currently taking Calc Honors, English Honors, American government Honors. I am also taking a Biology course at a community college.
I have taken an English 101 class (expository writing) at Rutgers University, in which i got an A. When i graduate from high school, I will have 11 college credits.
EC's: I've been a chairperson in my school's Community Service Club for all of high school. I have done Princeton Model United Nations and Rutgers Model Congress. I play JV soccer, because my school does not have a varsity team. I was an officer in a humanitarian club.
Volunteer Work: I have done work with local organizations to provide school supplies to needy people. I have also worked at a nursing home. I need to have 100 hours of community service in order to graduate.
SAT scores: 2260, CR 790, M 750, W 720
SAT 2's:
-Math 1: 700
-Math 2: 690
-Literature: 700</p>
<p>Thank you so much! if you need anything else, let me know :)</p>
<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>“many valedictorians with 4.0 unweighted GPA’s and 2400 SAT’s are rejected.”</p>
<p>I find this a bit hard to believe. I think a more appropriate way to phrase this is that “some” and not “many” get rejected. A 4.0/2400 is still very impressive.</p>
<p>it seems to me that the whole admissions process can go either way. like it depends on the mood of whoever is reading your application, you know?</p>
<p>“Harvard turned down 1,100 student applicants with perfect 800 scores on the SAT math exam. Yale rejected several applicants with perfect 2400 scores on the three-part SAT, and Princeton turned away thousands of high school applicants with 4.0 grade point averages. Needless to say, high school valedictorians were a dime a dozen.”</p>
<p>Besides a transcript with demonstrated course rigor, a high GPA and great test scores, the Ivy’s are looking for “character.” It’s an old fashioned word, meaning the way you develop your inner qualities: intellectual passion, maturity, social conscience, concern for community, tolerance and inclusiveness. Most of those details are revealed in recommendation letters, guidance counselor reports and essays. </p>
<p>The below came in an email last March from Middlebury College to all applicants, but it could just as easily have been written by Harvard, Yale, Princeton or any other college:</p>
<p>WHAT WE VALUE AND WHY
"Admission to Middlebury, as at other highly selective colleges, is based upon academic ability and achievement, with great interest also given to community, citizenship, leadership or other talents. We seek students who will not only perform at a high level in the classroom, but who will also contribute positively to campus life through strength of character, involvement in co-curricular activities and commitment to our special institution. Should you be admitted and eventually enroll at Middlebury, we wish for you a roommate who will care about you as a person and who will reciprocate the friendship you offer. We want you and your neighbors in residence to be stimulating, thoughtful individuals from a variety of intellectual, geographic, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. We hope that you and your classmates will carry discussions beyond the classroom to the residences and dining areas, applying ideas under discussion to your own experiences and opinions in ways that would challenge your thinking. And we also hope that you would anticipate each day as a new opportunity to learn and grow from your contact with faculty, staff and students alike. We review each application looking for the personal characteristics that will foster this kind of learning environment.</p>
<p>Each admission decision made at Middlebury is based on as complete a picture of the applicant as possible, but it is essentially subjective. Because of this, some decisions are difficult to understand. Why did we admit a student ranking #7 in her class while not admitting the #4 student? Why did we take a student with an ACT score of 28 while not taking a classmate with a 32? The answer is that not all of the qualities that we seek and that you possess can be neatly wrapped up and stamped with a number."</p>