<p>What clubs, EC's and kind volunteering service should I do if I want to go to Harvard to major in Biology. If your response is "anything you like" or "anything that has to do with biology" please, don't even waste your time typing it here. I need a SPECIFIC club, SPECIFIC service, and a SPECIFIC EC's.
Not to be naive, but I'd like anything that could help to get into an Ivy school. </p>
<p>Thanks alot.</p>
<p>Too bad for you, there is no SPECIFIC. If you are trying to mold yourself into a good-for-Harvard personality, well, you’re not being very authentic, and that’s exactly what they want: authenticity. So I will chose : anything you are passionate about.</p>
<p>This kind of mentality will probably cause you to be rejected.</p>
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<p>I would suggest not taking this approach</p>
<p>Yes, your approach is flawed. Try again!</p>
<p>If you’re interested in a biology major do something related to that field. But only take up activities because you are truly interested in them and not because you think they’ll look good on your harvard app.</p>
<p>What grade are you in?</p>
<p>howdesiareyou, I’m a junior in high school.</p>
<p>Re this and other similar threads, from an interview with Jeffrey Brenzel, Yale’s admissions dean:</p>
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A few of our applicants shoot themselves in the foot. What concerns me more are the number of high achieving students whose lives are governed by what they, or perhaps more often their parents, imagine is going to improve in some slight way their chances of admission to this or that particular school. Exploration and growth serve a student best for the long run, both in education and life, not the construction of a perfect resume. We try as best we can to distinguish the one from the other. </p>
<p>Harvard and Yale look for similar qualities. Stop trying to find “the formula”; go out and do something.</p>