<p>Hi,
Im 14 years old and just started high school. I understand how importaint these years are for me and the rest of my life. I was told that i am very smart and i could get into any school i want to, (my I.Q is about 130) and i am very nervous about high school and grades. What grades would i need for Harvard? all A's? and what other activites would i have to do? sports? any other things i should know about?
thanks</p>
<p>There is plenty of the info that you want on Harvard's web site and on this board. My suggestion is that you read those things first, and then come here for follow-up questions.</p>
<p>TheAtaris,</p>
<p>Not knowing any more about you than I gleaned from your post, and realizing how presumptuous it is to try to give advice under these circumstances, I'll nonetheless venture in and suggest that, at 14 years old, looking outward - here, the Harvard website, college guides, whatever - in an effort to try to figure out what you "have to do" in order to get into Harvard (or any other school) is the wrong approach.</p>
<p>Look inward instead. What do you like to do? What gives you pleasure? What do you enjoy doing so much that, while you're doing it, you lose all track of time? A sport? A musical instrument? Reading novels? Writing stories? Whatever it may be, do more of that - and more still. Really pour yourself into it.</p>
<p>Don't worry about Harvard, or any other school, for a few more years. These things will take care of themselves, one way or another, in due time. (For whatever it may be worth, my son, who is about to start his sophomore year at Harvard, never gave Harvard a thought until the fall of his senior year of high school - and didn't visit until after he'd been accepted.)</p>
<p>Let yourself be a 14-year-old kid - not some sort of college-student-in-training.</p>
<p>Relax. Try some new things. Enjoy yourself. Have fun!</p>