Facebook founder's Harvard application

<p>For some reason part of court filings against Facebook. Uncovered by 02138 magazine.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.02138mag.com/asset/1145.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.02138mag.com/asset/1145.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Looks like fencing is his hook.</p>

<p>A teacher recommendation from Zuming Feng is pretty impressive.</p>

<p>wow nice find, whats interesting are the marks that the admissions office wrote on his application</p>

<p>for example on ethnicity they wrote a HUGE W, apparently because the checkbox was too small.</p>

<p>then they also wrote some codes in under info about his parents, and wrote the years they graduated from college in big letters....i wonder why that is significant, they werent H alums.</p>

<p>theres some other stuff too. pretty interesting.</p>

<p>somehow the website wont show up for me. is it possible for you to copy the application here, especially the recommendation letter?</p>

<p>Most of the pages have pretty poor resolution, but two interesting things I noted are 1) he listed his area of primary academic interest as "B: Humanities" and 2) he participated in Harvard's summer school program.</p>

<p>umm how can the authenticity of these documents be assured.... plus there seems to be a lot of stuff missing like the long letters of recomendation, the personal statement, etc....</p>

<p>Megaragirl, how long did you wait for the page to load....it was really slow when I clicked on the link, took like 10 mins to load.</p>

<p>I don't think the W only looks huge because it looks like the page was stretched when it was scanned.. but it's interesting that they mark up applications like that, I guess for more efficient reviewing</p>

<p>How did you get this?? I thought this kind of stuff wasn't public information?</p>

<p>02138</a> § Poking Facebook</p>

<p>This article draws quotes from Zuckerberg's application that match the image in the link</p>

<p>Yea, there is now way anyone could have access to his files. Zuming Fend's recommendation is LOL.</p>

<p>02138</a> § Breaking News: Judge rules in favor of 02138</p>

<p>If you had trouble accessing the articles, I think it might have been because they either had them down till the ruling, or the server crashed from all the hits! It's back up now, anyway.</p>

<p>interesting!....stalkerish, but interesting!</p>

<p>Great application; clear and concise.</p>

<p>he expanded the activities box from the standard seven</p>

<p>This was one of the BEST CC posts ever. Let me highlight several things:</p>

<p>-He went to JHU CTY many times. (CTY 2000/2002 LANCASTER REPRESENT!)
-He went to Harvard Summer School
-He went to Exeter</p>

<p>This is the Ivy formula. </p>

<p>(His recommendation from Zuming Feng is oustanding).</p>

<p>This looks like the real deal.</p>

<p>I (rather strongly) believe that activities like CTY + Harvard Summer School are strongly <strong>correlated</strong> with getting in to top schools, but do not actually <strong>cause</strong> admission to the schools.</p>

<p>(Exeter may be a different story, or maybe not)</p>

<p>a couple of things stuck out to me:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>the number of languages he spoke - just a side note, I am taking my 5th year of spanish currently so am fairly decent at the language, but definitely not fluent - should i have put this down for languages you can read or write? (i didn't)</p></li>
<li><p>the hours/week he's involved in activities....mine were no where near that but i thought i was quite involved.....apparently not</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Why is getting a rec from this Zuming Feng guy so "outstanding"?</p>

<ul>
<li>Clueless non-Exonian Harvard Student</li>
</ul>