chances please?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>Rank: Somewhere in the top 5 to 10 out of a 600 student class (top 2% for sure), very competitive public west coast school.</p>

<p>9-11 GPA UW: 3.72
9-11 GPA W: 4.17</p>

<p>Senior Classes:
College Calculus
AP Art History
College Political Science
AP Physics C
AP English Literature</p>

<p>SAT I:
CR - 750
M - 710
W - 790
Total - 2250</p>

<p>SAT II:
Biology (Molecular) - 730
Math II - 700
French - 700 (retook it, 610 originally)
U.S. History - 680</p>

<p>APs:
Biology - 5
English Lang. & Comp. - 5
U.S. History - 4
French Language - 4
Computer Science AB - 3</p>

<p>EC:
3 years of football, kicker on varsity two years
4 years of French Honor Society
1 year of varsity Golf
7 years of club soccer
2 years on varsity Academic League (we made the playoffs at nationals last year)
1 year of Science Olympiad (we made state)
3 years being Democrats club secretary
3 years as a developer and tester for the FreeBSD project (open source operating system)
managing editor for an online newspaper
I taught myself Mandarin Chinese (does this count?)</p>

<p>Volunteer Work:
building homes in Mexico for impoverished families
food drive work for a local shelter (20 hours)
wrote and maintain the boosters website for my school (at least 40 hours with updating it and everything)</p>

<p>Misc:
AP Distinguished Scholar
CSF
recs will be really good
essays will be pretty good, I think</p>

<p>Looking to go into Comp. Sci., should I apply ED? My GPA is pretty low for this school I think... Are any Ivys attainable?</p>

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<p>If I have very little chance of getting in, that's fine. I'm just looking for your opinions. Anybody?</p>

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<p>Decent-good chance. Maybe work around the fact that you learnt Mandarin on your own (assuming you're not asian) in your essay; there's a lot of "transcendental" rubbish you can bring out here I'd say...</p>

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<p>haha, I'm white. You really think I have a chance with a 3.72?</p>

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<p>Sorry bud, but your GPA and SAT IIs must come up to have a shot. How good of a kicker are you? Try contacting the fball coach.</p>

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<p>***? his GPA and SAT IIs do give him a shot; but yes, they could do with some improvement.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I'm going to retake my SAT II Math 2, and I'm going to take the Literature test as well which I think I can do pretty well on. Thanks for your replies!</p>