<p>SAT: 2100 (700M | 690CR | 710WR)
GPA: 3.1 UW | 4.5 W
AP: Human Geo - 5, Psychology - 5, World History - 5, U.S. History - 5, Biology - 4, Spanish Lit. - 4, Eng. Lang. - 4
Senior Courseload: AP Calc BC, AP Stat, AP CS, AP Chem, AP U.S. Gov, AP Micro, AP English Lit, Contemporary Lit. Honors, Allied Health Honors (shadow surgeons and physicians)</p>
<p>ECS:
President, Best Buddies; President, Psychology Club; President/Founder, Social Activism Club; Webmaster, HOSA; Historian, SNHS.
-Started a vegetable garden at my school that provides produce to our school's cafeteria.
-Volunteer every weekend at a community garden
-Petitioned for and started a vegetarian meal program at my school
-Videographer/Founding member of a STEM summer camp at my school. Secured $52K in corporate grants for STEM program.
-Videographer for Summer Camp for Gifted Students
-Contribute poetry and photography to schools literary magazine. (featured on the front cover twice)</p>
<p>Honors:
-27th Place at the U.S. National Brain Bee
-1st Place 2 years in a row at the Miami Brain Bee
-Several regional awards in Poetry Out Loud and Extemporaneous Speaking in Spanish
-Won regional HOSA Competition and competed at the state level</p>
<p>Other:
-8.5/10 Recommendations (got them from teachers/administrators that love me)
-Common App essay talks about how I learned from an illness that I experienced during my first two years of high school and how it has affected the development of my character.
-Male
-Hispanic/African American (Afro-Cuban)
-Political Refugee (citizen thanks to wet foot dry foot policy)
-First Generation
-100k+ Income</p>
<p>My sense is that your ECs make you a good match for the culture at Haverford. Your scores should hit the mark. GPA will need to be interpreted, but seems ok. Did you know that Haverford has a community garden? I think you would feel very at home at Haverford. Visit if you can. It’s a great place.</p>
<p>@worldspirit I didn’t know that! That’s a huge addition to the things I love about Haverford.</p>
<p>Today I had an alumni interview in my area. My interviewer told me how graduating from a LAC like Haverford provides limited professional opportunities due to the limited alumni network and limited name recognition. She said that it serves as a great platform for graduate school however. What do you think? </p>
<p>It always makes me laugh when students with obviously very high grades and many EC’s and honors ask others to chance them. Of course, you’re qualified. Duh. The question really is, however, are you a good fit? Because with Haverford, probably more than most other colleges, it’s a really important factor. It’s a very small, tight-knit community, which is very much dedicated to the Honor Code. I find the students there to be of a very high caliber, but they are also a different type of student than you will find elsewhere. So yes, you are a good fit academically, but you may or may not be a good fit in personality and other measures.</p>
Neuroscience at Haverford is almost nonexistent. Also, if you are a male be very careful- the school is full of ultra liberal feminists who believe if you touch a female student without asking first it is a sexual assault.
@megan12 Ideological niceties aside, would you dispute the factual accuracy of the assertion made by @imattart1 about the strong feminist presence at Haverford? I’m trying to get a realistic sense of the tenor of campus life at HC.
@MrSamford2014 Another parent here who has spent a ton of time on the Haverford Campus. One student there and another one just finished applying (one Son, one Daughter). Are there feminists, probably, but in my 30+ visits there I never saw any displays that suggested overt political righteousness or obnoxiousness in that regard. I have also never heard any such reports from my kid who is presently a student. We are a conservative family and our experience with the students, and we’ve met many, has been excellent. I do think the poster who reported that was demonstrating some of his own frustration.
MrSamford2014, yes, I would dispute the accuracy of that statement for the exact same reason that worldspirit just stated. The best way to get a feel for the school is to actually visit it and speak with the students there.
@worldspirit and @megan12: Thank you for your helpful feedback. I like worldspirit’s notion of “overt political righteousness.” On some campuses today, progressive ultra-orthodoxy has become in essence a new mode of religious fundamentalism, one impervious to rational critique and willing to “tolerate” only the like-minded. This is the atmosphere I hope to avoid, and I’m glad to hear that you do not think it characterizes Haverford.
So I asked my son about the previous poster’s comments about the feminists, and this is what he told me. He said that although there are women at Haverford that are a little excessive in their beliefs and are very adamant feminists, they are only a minority of the population. They tend to get in disagreements with the Haverbros, which apparently do not share their opinions and are made up mostly of athletes. I don’t think it’s a major issue at the school, just one of those things that makes Haverford what it is - a liberal, open-minded environment with people who have many different views on various subjects and are not afraid to express them.
