Do I have a chance without EC activities

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hey everybody

I’m a 16 year old student from Kosovo that lives in Belgium and I want to apply to Harvard in my last year of high school. Before I ask you whether I stand a chance or not I would like to tell you something more about me and my family.

I have 4 sisters and 1 brother. When I was 4 years old we lived in Kosovo and when my father passed away we immigrated to Belgium. My mother was 32 years old with 5 little kids. She didn’t know anybody from Belgium and she couldn’t speak the language. So she started working as a cleaninglady and raised us and educated us with a minimum income. (My mother earns €10.000 a year)

We all do very well in school but we never had the oppertunity to do EC activities because we didn’t have the money for it. When I was 15 years old, I started working whenever and wherever I could just to help my mother. Now I would like to know if I have a chance at Harvard? I didn’t take the SAT yet but I know that Harvard finds it very important that students enroll in different EC activities. Will this make a huge difference in my application?

Thanking you in advance

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Work is an EC. Whether of not you get into Harvard will not be as a result of your EC’s. Without SAT scores though, nobody here can give you any better direction, however.