Harvard Anti-hook Game

<p>Oh yeah, a barely D on my report card this semester. BLAH</p>

<p>My anti-hooks
1. I'm Asian from Silicon Valley
2. SAT I writing and SAT II literature scores are solidly below 700. <em>cries and screams</em>
3. unfortunate junior year that brought down my class rank and GPA and naturally boomed the AP tests.</p>

<p>Gpa is ****. Class rank will be poor too. I'll only be have taken about 5 AP's by the time I graduate.</p>

<p>I have great scores and good GPA,</p>

<p>but:
crappy ECs (only 1 until 11th grade, when I quit that one sport)
not much leadership
minimal comm service
no job
only took 1 AP in 11th grade
white, middle class
no diversity or adversity
no real essay topic, so I picked a random one that doesn't show passion or anything meaningful about me</p>

<p>Wow, this list is scaring me...</p>

<p>I hope they overlook my shortcomings because of legacy/stats, etc.</p>

<p>anti-hook: ugly sat scores, my supplemental essay was me rambling on about my Extended Essay for IB, uh, I come from FL, but NW FL which is pretty much Alabama...no legacy, i think thats it!</p>

<p>anti-hook:
- i look like a cookie-cutter asian-american female on paper...but i'm a humanities and social science girl so it kind of breaks the asian math-science freak stereotype</p>

<ul>
<li><p>700 on SAT Math 2 (56th percentile, yikes!)</p></li>
<li><p>no legacy</p></li>
<li><p>never took physics (my school's science program works in a way that i had to choose between physics and AP Chem my senior year, and physics just didn't work with my schedule)</p></li>
<li><p>never founded a club or organization...only leadership positions are president and VP of a club and treasurer of another</p></li>
</ul>

<p>My anti-hooks:</p>

<p>-Downward trend in junior year because of moving
-From Virginia?
-Never found a club or organization
-No leadership position
-Parents as doctors--> Really high incomes</p>

<p>Had a C freshman year and several errant B's all 4 years. GPA is subsequently a 3.4. SAT I score is about 2100.</p>

<p>Everything else on my app I like :)</p>

<p>only 4 EC's as well...
-_- Aieee.</p>

<p>Anti-hooks
- Relatively low SAT (2090...thus relatively low for harvard)
- International student...competition is so crazy
- not much leadership</p>

<p>Meh. I finally have a chance to let this one out. I took four APs junior year and I got three 5's...then I took my Calculus AB and I got a 1. Sure, the other fifty-six people at my school who took it also got 1s, but it's still a blow to the ego. Also, I forgot my graphing calculator the day of the SAT and made a 690. But I'm a poor hispanic female with a single mom, so it's all good.</p>

<p>I have crappy-ish (not for my school) grades and a 410 Mathematics score for the SAT I... :( 12th percentile or something lol... I'm counting on my aberrant academic and social background + my author friend's recommendation to maybe let them overlook these failings on my part... </p>

<p>Trouble is he thinks it won't make a difference and, in fact, might hinder me because he's a fantasy writer... a seminal fantasy author to be sure but nonetheless... (I mean seminal as in highly influential! not relating to semen...)</p>

<p>Asian with a crappy math score.
(I have an 800 in verbal though)</p>

<p>Otherwise I'm incredibly solid all around.</p>

<p>crappy sats...
crappy ecs...
a LOT of competition from schoolmates (we are my country's number 1 feeder to harvard/princeton/ivy)
not nationally ranked whatever.
leadership positions lacklustre :(</p>

<p>scandal-less, what school do you go to?</p>

<p>pm me if u want to know.</p>

<p>I don't believe in student leadership at school. This said, my "leadership" activities are few and relatively unimportant, by normal standards.</p>

<p>I will be applying RD this year after being deferred (sniff sniff) from Yale.</p>

<p>Anti-hooks:</p>

<ol>
<li>2210 SAT 800V, 700M, 710W (I am Japanese, overrepresented)</li>
<li>Harvard hates my school (the two people who got in didn't end up matriculating, and the other few people who applied and didn't get in were just awful people in general)</li>
<li>I have a recommender who was my teacher only once, and in 10th grade (although outside relationship may help a tiny bit)</li>
<li>I want to major in classics/Latin and took the SAT II Latin, but I think I did crappy.</li>
<li>I am applying while completely depressed that I didn't get into my first choice school SCEA.</li>
</ol>

<p>Anti-hooks:</p>

<ol>
<li>Typical SAT scores</li>
<li>My counselor hates me</li>
<li>I'm Asian</li>
<li>grrrrr</li>
</ol>

<ol>
<li>Took me 3 times to get a 2400... actually dropped second time</li>
<li>Sent my scores to them a gazillion times; looks desperate, but I just wanted them to know I really wanted to go there</li>
<li>ECs too unfocused</li>
<li>ACTs not that high... 32</li>
<li>Asian male... too many applied from area</li>
<li>History major, since they accepted more math/science people</li>
<li>Not many awards on national or state level</li>
<li>Interview skills are not too great</li>
<li>Recs could have bene better and not resume-based</li>
</ol>