<p>^
applied to all the ivy (except columbia), vanderbilt, JHU, Rice, and 4 public schools in CA (my top two are UCLA and Berkeley)</p>
<p>i know, thats alot. hehehe</p>
<p>I applied to 12 others. That’s quite a lot too I guess.</p>
<p>Brown, Dartmouth, Yale, Cornell, UChicago, USC, Grinnell, Oberlin, DePaul, Purdue, Wooster & Rochester IT, with the last few as hopefully safeties, but then I’m an international needing full aid so I have no safeties…</p>
<p>Sheesh, I applied to seven and applying to an eighth later on!</p>
<p>^I applied to 8 as well. =]</p>
<p>I applied to stanford, washu, northeastern, usc, and I got into notre dame, bc and some safeties.</p>
<p>13 total for me, possibly a 14th, if I end up deciding if one of my safeties is worth applying to. 
w00t Harvard '14 hopefuls!</p>
<p>I applied to 15. Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Duke, Virginia, William and Mary, Vanderbilt, Penn, USC, Texas, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Tulane</p>
<p>My God, that’s a fortune on application fees.</p>
<p>fee waivers :)</p>
<p>I hope to be the first person from my school to attend Harvard. Can you guys give me any study tips for the Math levels 1 and 2 subject tests?</p>
<p>For L2: None of the problems require heavy math. You need to be quick on your feet, recognizing shortcuts and being able to solve problems with little writing. If you get bogged down doing a lot of math, you’re failing.</p>
<p>Math 1 is easy, but the curve is harsh–meaning it leaves no room for careless mistakes.
Math 2 delves into more difficult math than the SAT I, but has a generous curve. You can miss 6 or so and still get an 800. I recommend reviewing beforehand though, for topics like equations of ellipses, etc. I even got a matrix question when I took it (matrices were on none of the review books I scanned through), but I remembered when I learned it in class a few years before. Overall, they are not difficult tests.</p>
<p>@Redmondo : No, it didn’t. I only paid for USC. Rest are all waived!</p>
<p>@neatsf : Don’t get complacent while taking Math 1, cos like darkblade said, the curve is killing. I found that out the hard way. And do practice Math 1 tests, cos I just practiced 2 before the test and I ended up with a very poor score. Math 2 is both harder and more lenient. You just have to go through everything that’s in the books. Worst thing that can happen is you stumble onto a question you’ve never seen and you can’t reason out how to solve it.</p>
<p>Thanks! I am studying currently for them. How long did you guys study for the test?</p>
<p>@neatsf</p>
<p>i took math 2 twice… </p>
<p>the first one is over the summer. didnt study at all. got 600. this is probably because of the generous curve associated with math level 2.</p>
<p>this fall, i took it again (studied for 3 months) and i got 800 
thats surprisingly well since i didnt answer 3-5 questions</p>
<p>thank GOD for the generous curve and score choice :D</p>
<p>okay I had my harvard interview in the beginning of december, and the guy was just extremely honest which is good, but also really depressing for a student trying his best…he said the only thing that would keep me from Harvard are my horrible SATs. I got a 600 writing 650 math and 580 reading. 570 math 2 and 520 us history. Everything else is awesome. Im number one in the class, have 430 hours of volunteer service. I go to an early college so when i graduate i will have 60 hours of college credit, I help a professor with his research on a local college campus, we analyze metorites with an electron microscope. I am senior class president, and president of National Honor Society. I have done over 100 hours of Job shadowing. And a whole bunch of other things…but my interviewer really turned me away from Harvard.</p>
<p>@dmoore11:</p>
<p>while your SAT scores arent that great, harvard will still consider your application. they will also look at your essay and also, factor in your socioeconomic class when looking at your SAT scores. it is known that SAT has a socio economic bias so dont be discourage. </p>
<p>many years ago, my cousin applied to cornell with a 1280/1600 on SAT I. she got accepted probably because of her superb essay and a long list of EC activities. </p>
<p>while it is normal for us to be pessimistic, there is still hope for you :D</p>
<p>^^I didn’t have a great interview, either. My interviewer was, quite frankly, creepy. His first joke was that his parents lived in a cemetery near my house, which I didn’t find funny AT ALL. Overall, it was an extremely awkward hour, and most of it was spent with me listening to him talk on and on about books he had read. The main impression I got when leaving was that he hated Harvard, since he kept talking about how his experience there was terrible without girls. It didn’t help that the guy was class of '62, either. -_-</p>
<p>I still haven’t been contacted for an interview, and I applied on the 1st of December, which is frustrating.</p>
<p>my friend and i had a bad experience with our Harvard interview…</p>
<p>well, the person who interviewed me was 45 mins late to our appointment, and he was also in a rush with our meeting coz he has a family gathering to attend… like, my interview with a Vanderbilt alumni took 75 mins coz it was fun. with my harvard interview, it took like 10mins. but im still optimistic about getting accepted at harvard XO</p>
<p>with my friend, she was bombarded with tough questions. my friend said she ended up being irritated with some of the questions…</p>
<p>i just hope that you get good people to interview you guys… :/</p>