Chances at Harvard?

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Hey everyone, can you check out how my chances are at getting into Harvard. I understand its a long shot, but some advice and tips would be awesome. This is a long post so bear with me haha.

So the first thing to get across is that in my admissions I want to emphasize my spike/narrative in Political Science/International relations.

Basic Info
Ethnicity: Hispanic/Sephardi Jew
State: New Mexico
Family: My Dad has an Associates in Technology

I go to a small charter school, in addition, I do full-time college at my local community college (I might apply for the University of New Mexico for more course variety)

Highschool Grade: 11th
HS GPA: 4.8 unweighted (4.0 weighted)
Class Rank: 1
College Grade: Sophomore
College GPA: 4.0

AP Courses/Courses of Importance

  • Note that New Mexico is not a wealthy state, so our schools can only afford so much, especially the charter schools)

AP Biology (probably not taking the exam)
AP Language
AP Government
AP Comparative Government
AP Macroeconomics
Honors International Relations
Honors Media and Politics

College Courses

  • I will complete my Associates in Political science before senior year in August 2018. I’ve taken a lot of prerequisites so I will just note the courses of importance. After I finish my degree I will probably take some 3000 level courses in political science.

Political World
U.S. Politics
International Politics
Political Theory
Public Policy
Political Analysis

Extracurriculars

  • Note again, small school so only so many clubs.
  1. Model UN (Vice President) 9th-12th
  2. NHS (Secretary) 9th-12th
  3. Environmental Science Club (Don't know if that will make a dent in my application??) 11th-12th
  4. International Relations Society (As president I want to start this up in the spring) 11th-12th
  5. Junior Statesman Association 10th-12th
    • Attending Georgetown to take International Relations and Media and Politics for the summer
  6. National History Day
    • Shooting on earning the Global Peace Prize

Letters of Recommendation

  • My World History teacher, I picked her because she got me inspired to take a global and international view of the world.
  • School Founder, he taught for my geometry and my career pathway course, very helpful and has worked with me through my academic journey in high school.

SAT Subject Tests
World History
U.S. History

So that’s all, sorry if it is really busy. From what I understand the ivies look for interesting applicants from less known places and with less prestige/wealth, just to see something a little different. Also, they do take individual’s situations into much consideration so it may or may not impact my application. You’ve made it this far, woohoo, leave some advice below!

Thank you!

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Please refer to MIT’s website, as everything pertaining to your post is addressed here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/939227-reminder-no-one-not-even-me-can-give-you-an-accurate-chance-at-mit-p1.html
and here: http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways

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Jojodelno, I think you should definitely apply. But it seems you have not been doing college courses for high school, but also for an associate’s degree. I honestly don’t know how that impacts your application: are you a transfer? You might want to stick to dual enrollment and using your college credits for high school or advanced standing, rather than a degree. I really don’t know and assume you are being advised.

Otherwise yeah, go for it, but don’t get fixed on any one school. Good luck!