Chances for me at harvard!!

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<p>I will be in the class of 2012. Please chance me for Harvard!!!!</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Superscore Critical Reading 750 Math 800 Writing 800
ACT: 35 Composite (36 English, 36 Math, 33 Reading, 35 Science)
SAT II: Chemistry 800 Math II 800
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Unweighted 3.955/4.000 Weighted 4.257 only APs weighted
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/428
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Calc AB (5), AP US History (5), AP English Lang. (5), AP Chemistry (5), AP US Government (5), AP Biology (5), AP Microecon (5), AP Macroecon (5), AP Psych (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Comp Sci, AP Statistics, CIS Writing, CIS Literature, AP Spanish, AP Physics C, World History, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended, National AP Scholar, National Econ Challenge 2nd Place, 3rd Place Individuals State Econ CHallenge, National Spanish Exam Silver Medal, 2nd Place Twin Cities Econ CHallenge
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS (Executive Board Leader), Math Team Varsity Member (No Leadership), Basketball Varsity (No Leadership), Econ Challenge (Captain), Football 2 Years (No Leadership), Youth Group at Church (No Leadership), Ping Pong Team Varsity (Captain)
Job/Work Experience: Worked in summer for Shoreview Youth Baseball League as an umpire, worked for Mounds View Basketball Association as a referee, Worked at the University of Minnesota as a Lab Assistant in an electrical engineering lab, Worked as a summer teaching assistant for my Calculus Teacher
Volunteer/Community service:NHS Volunteering, SAT Tutoring (Not very many hours), Translating Spanish Letters to Guatamela, Helping Calculus teacher teach Algebra 2 Course
Summer Activities: Tournament Basketball Season, AP Physics C class through Northwestern
Intended Major: Economics/Chemical Engineering/Applied Mathematics
State (if domestic applicant): MN
School Type: Large Public (2000 kids)
Ethnicity: Caucasian (White)
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: $60,000-$80,000</p>

<p>THANK YOU SO MUCH!</p>

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<p>Great scores, lots of AP’s with great scores, great GPA (What is a 3.95 in terms of numbers? Just wondering :slight_smile: Interesting volunteer work. You have a good chance. You’re defiantly not going to be one of the apps they throw away after glancing at it. Good luck! :D</p>

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<p>@Amuchan
what do you mean by in terms of numbers??</p>

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<p>If i interpret correctly you mean 4=A 3.66=A- 3.33=B+ 3=B and so on…</p>

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<p>^^ While that is correct, she was actually refering to a 100-point scale that some schools use. You know, like the number grade you get at the top of a school paper.</p>

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<p>I’m not sure if this is correct, but this is what I found
GPA Percentile Letter Grade
4.0 95-100 A
3.9 94 A
3.8 93 A
3.7 92 A
3.6 91 A
3.5 90 A
3.4 89 B
3.3 88 B
3.2 87 B…
and so on…</p>

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<p>Don’t worry about it. Very few schools and virtually no colleges (including Harvard) use it.</p>

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<p>Yes thats what I meant thank you and when they say GPA do they mean all of your high school years combined??</p>

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<p>@TechnoMusic: What do you mean? That Harvard doesn’t care about GPA? I would doubt that… :slight_smile: The problem lies in the conversion of grades to the actual GPA number. The methods tend to differ, not taking the difficulty of classes into account… I would like to know how colleges deal with that.</p>

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<p>@Amuchan
yep its a total of all the years</p>

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<p>@mrcrazy- I meant that colleges don’t use the 100-POINT SYSTEM! Of course colleges look at your GPA! What am I, stupid?! :mad:</p>

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<p>@TechnoMusic: Calm down, I haven’t said that. :wink: The thing is one can’t be so sure about the method colleges use when choosing the “right applicant”. In one case, they might accept someone with a 4.00, in another 3.80 might be just fine… It’s just that grades is not the only thing that matters. Nor do conversion tables.</p>

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<p>You’re obviously qualified, but so are 50% of all Harvard applicants. You’re off to a good start, but now you need to focus on perfecting the essay, the final piece of your application.</p>

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<p>@SmallGarbageBag
is it true only 50% of applicants to Harvard are actually qualified?</p>

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<p>while SmallGarageBag may be guessing, I’d say that he/she is roughly correct. For Princeton at least, only ~14,000 of the ~28,000 applicants had a 2100 or above. If you add in hooked applicants that may have below a 2100, and then take out those with 2100s with horrid ECs, GPA, etc., I think the number would just about return to 14,000 “qualified” applicants. So (and this is mostly speculation) for Princeton at least, I think the 50% figure is accurate. and I don’t see why Harvard would be too different</p>

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<p>With schools like HYPSM, you have a massive applicant pool of well-qualified students, yes, but you also have a significant pool of students who don’t really have any desire to go. Schools like that seem to attract a lot of applications from people who only want to see if they can get in, whether they’re qualified or aren’t. Whatever the percentage of “qualified” students, it doesn’t lessen the challenge by much. I mean, 50% of 30,000 applicants is serious competition by any stretch of the imagination.</p>

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<p>If you can kill on the essays, you’re in. I had very similar stats but awful essays and got waitlisted.</p>

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<p>@NavyBlueNinja
were you a URM?</p>

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<p>bump…</p>

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<p>um… how do you know you’re a national AP scholar? those come out in oct/nov. right?</p>