Chances?

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<p>I'm still deciding if I want to apply SCEA or not (Harvard is my number one choice), but how do you guys think I stack up for regular decision? </p>

<p>Gender: Male
Race: Korean-American
School: Public (pretty competitive)
Location: California</p>

<p>Stats:
GPA: 4.0 UW; 4.65 W
Rank: 1/214
SAT: 2390 (800 M, 790 CR, 800 W)
SAT II: 800 Math IIC, 800 U.S. History, 800 Biology, 800 Korean, 790 Literature
ACT: 35
APs: World History (5), European History (5), Biology (5), U.S. History (5), Chemistry (4), English Language and Composition (5), Calculus BC (5), Statistics (5), Psychology (5)</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
AP Government
AP Economics
AP English Literature
AP Environmental Science
AP Physics
AP Spanish</p>

<p>ECs/Volunteering/Awards:
-Varsity Basketball (4 years; co-captain junior and senior year)
-Varsity Cross Country (4 years)
-President of Music Club (4 years)
-President of Key Club (4 years; 2 years as president)
-ASB Vice President (4 years; 2 years as VP)
-Playwright for School Theater (4 years)
-Drama Club (4 years)
-600ish hours of volunteering and community service (hospital, elementary school, animal shelter, soup kitchen)
-Named to District League All-Star team for basketball (sophomore and junior year)</p>

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<p>No chance whatsoever. SAT's are way too low and that 4 in AP Chem will come back and bite you in the behind. </p>

<p>You know you are an amazing applicant(granted this isn't a troll, but I won't assume that you are). You have a great chance, and you need to quit giving yourself the "ego boost."</p>

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<p>This doesn't even look close to legit.</p>

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<p>you're annoying (=</p>

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<p>*I'm still deciding if I want to apply SCEA or not (Harvard is my number one choice), but how do you guys think I stack up for regular decision? *</p>

<p>Applying SCEA won't have any bearing on your chance to apply to Harvard RD. EA is not binding. </p>

<p>And for some reason I also think you're a troll. Honestly, who takes that many subject tests when the first 2-3 were already perfect?</p>

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<p>Well, all I wanted was some honest thoughts on my chances, but I guess I can't even get that here. Thanks anyway.</p>

<p>Btw, if you care at all, I took all those subject tests usually close to after I finished that class so that it can stay fresh in my mind. I just thought it would look good to show my ability on the SAT II in a variety of subjects (math, science, foreign language, literature).</p>

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<p>50-50
nothing that impressive</p>

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<p>I would say 50-50 as well for RD, with the weak points being that there's nothing too impressive in terms of EC's (in the way you wrote it, but they're at least solid), and not much real academic skills shown outside of classes/tests.</p>

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<p>Don't listen to these guys there idiots..there obviously athletic stiffs who study all day and don;t understand the importance of athletics...</p>

<p>all district all star is a HUGE accomplishment...all state would be even better...your best bet for an ivy league would be Dartmouth...they love athletes...but you may wanna look outside of just the ivies and more what you want to major in...ivies aren;t always the best choice...</p>

<p>chance me now
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/575058-chance-me-my-fellow-8balls.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/575058-chance-me-my-fellow-8balls.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>You may as well just apply SCEA. You'll probably get in and then you'll have a good backup should you not (for some odd reason) get into harvard.</p>

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<p>Man, you were able to do that many EC's through the 4 years and be good at basketball and be the presidents of some of those clubs, while maintaining a 4.65 weighted GPA. Well, if this was all true, then I'd be extremely jealous of you. 5 Sat II subject tests is weird because I think they ask only 2-3. What's weird is that you took AP calc BC exam but didn't mention AB?</p>

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<p>It just.... I don't know. If I were an AO at an institution that received 25000+ applications/year, and 10000 of them looked like this, I'd feel inclined to look for a bit more diversity, looking for the story, rather than the numbers. The person, rather than the academics.</p>

<p>My first reaction was: troll.
My second reaction was: jealousy.</p>

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<p>i got 10 more point than u in Literature
but 100 less points then u in reasoning </p>

<p>Even =D</p>

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<p>dayum, I better get going on improving my app.</p>

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<p>( Rocky, I thought Harvard didn't have SCEA (If true, doubles the likeliness of the trollness of this post) Why else would Aaron be applying EA to Yale? He's clearly a Harvard boy)</p>

<p>But as a sheer courtesy, if you've somehow truly managed completing all of this, congratulations. True, Harvard is as competetive as it gets, but so are these stats.</p>