<p>ok, i'm a persian muslim Class of 09
High School: Long Island pubic school with a great reputation (Top 50 in U.S)
GPA: UW-3.65...all honors classes (School will weight it accordingly because of my high school's reputation)</p>
<p>SAT: 2030 Math-690 Writing 730 CR: 610 (Took it Three Times***)
SAT II's: 730 Math I, 680 U.S History, 630 Math II</p>
<p>By the time I graduate, I will have taken..
Ap English
Ap Spanish
Ap Calc AB
Ap Stat
Ap Physics
Ap Euro
Ap American
Ap government/Economics</p>
<p>*Great Essay
*Great Counselor Rec
*2 good teacher recs</p>
<p>*Went to China last summer to take courses at a university. It was also a cultural immersion program. I think this is important because it's very interesting. Not too many go to China every summer.</p>
<p>E.C.
4 year varsity wrestler and captain, 2 Time All County
3 year varsity lacrosse
2 Time All County Saxophone
Piano for 8 years, Singing
Pres of Medical explorers and jazz band
VP of Future Business Leaders of America
French Club (Web Master 11th 12th), World Affairs Club, Varsity Club
National Spanish Honor Society
Tri-M music honor society
National Honor Society</p>
<p>Other:
went to summer school after 9th grade to get ahead in science
went to sat prep after 10th grade (didn't help)
went to National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) in 10th Grade
*Four Model United Nations</p>
<p>Also applying to:
Lehigh EDII
Colgate
BU (School of Comm)
GW (School of Business)
Lafayette
Dickinson
Villanova
Bucknell</p>
<p>I would suggest taking a look at the RD thread from last year and comparing other results to your own. Your test scores and grades look lower than some who were denied or waitlisted, but you have good EC's it appears, particularly in sports...which makes me wonder if you are interested in pursuing wrestling or lacrosse in college. If so, or especially if you were interested in both and feel you would be D3 material, that could give you a leg up if you contact the coach(es). But only if you are seriously intersted in doing the sport(s), not just as a way to game the admissions process. Someone who could play two sports at a small school like Haverford would be attractive.</p>
<p>it would be attractive if we had a wrestling team...which we don't... ur scores are decent ec's good...shows ur well rounded with sports instruments and other ****...which hford likes...but weird the schools ur applying to...but also i applied to carnegie mellon, hford, bucknell, n rutgers, and got waitlisted at bucknell...so its al la crapshoot. i give u a decent shot...definately apply.</p>
<p>I guess you have an okay shot...
Your test scores are rather low.
And the whole China experience may or may not help.
One of my friends who is now at Tufts actually had a similar trip, and was actually included in her personal essay but she got deferred for her early and later rejected.
She had pretty good stats as well...</p>
<p>I think Haverford looks for more a well-roundedness in character as opposed to little quirks. But your E.C.s look pretty good so that may help.</p>
<p>Haverford is a very weird place. This year they are having problems with students leaving anonymous racial slurs in very public places (log on to their newspaper, it is all public info).
And one dorm is plagued by the problem of someone or some people smearing feces all over the place.
It is an uptight, very boring, very homogeneous school. Not a lot of diversity, and not a lot to do out there in those suburbs. The students very rarely take advantage of Philadelphia. Think hard about deciding to go there.</p>
<p>I would take the post above with a few grains of salt...sounds like there might be an agenda there. Pear4evr - I see you are a parent, not a student from other posts you made two days ago when you joined the board. What is your knowledge of Haverford based on? Various surveys show that the students are overwhelmingly satisfied with their experience there, especially as compared to the responses at most other schools (considering the averages). Yes, there have been some incidences there, as there have been at all schools. It just seemed strange that you joined on 2/17 and your first three posts were to bash Haverford. When my son spent a weekend there he found the students he spent time with to be very happy with the school, and found a lot of different interests represented among them. What experience are your comments based on?</p>
<p>casey75,
I am a parent of a potential Haverford student, and I started a separate thread aimed at getting some information from pear4Evr as to his/her status so that I could judge credibility. You were more observant in noticing that this is a brand new poster, but perhaps we will get an answer to our questions.</p>
<p>momof3sons - my son was accepted early decision to Haverford. In researching it, we looked at every guidebook we could get our hands on, looked at every student survey we could find, talked to current students, parents and graduates, including a young woman we have known all her life who attends Bryn Mawr and spends a lot of time at Haverford, and read every thread on this site about Haverford going back to the beginning. We read back copies of the Biconews, the online paper that pear4evr referred to. My son visted campus multiple times, including an overnight hosted by a student and met with the head of his potential major department. Short of him actually enrolling and spending time there as a student, we think we did about everything we could think of to assure ourselves that Haverford would be a good fit. Yes, there have been some incidences there, but Haverford is a very open student culture where any warts are out there for anyone to see. There are many schools where outsiders would have a difficult time learning about any negative occurences on campus. The incident with the smearing of feces has happened three times now in one dorm, and appears to be the work of one disgruntled or disturbed student. The campus body as a whole is very disturbed by this and is trying to discover the perpetrator. So, yes, things happen, but I wouldn't paint the whole student body with the brush of a small number of disaffected students, as pear4evr is doing.</p>