<p>So, were you accepted, rejected or waitlisted?</p>
<p>Please state your IB, SAT I and II results, as well as..
1. Your rank.
2. ECs
3. Awards
4. All recommendations
5. Interview
6. Where you are from
7. School type
8. Strengths and weaknesses</p>
<p>Bitturiju, Just wanted to let you know that Harvard (and all other US Universitys) accepts you based upon predicted IB scores and by the time the scores actually come out you are already accepted or rejected. This is different from many countries that accept you conditionally upon receipt of a certain IB score.</p>
<p>As for the IB results, I know that U.S. universities accept students based on their predicted grade (but still, in certain cases, I would doubt about the importance of the IB Diploma in the app). Anyway, what if, hypothetically, the predicted grade differs by more… let’s say one or two points? Is it very likely that the university would revoke the acceptance once you don’t manage to “stick to the prediction”?</p>
<p>Uh, I’m not too sure about the fact that US universities use predicted grades to determine your admission. I know that my school did not release our predicted grades to colleges yet I was still admitted. Predicted grades I would think matter more for UK universities where they then sometimes use that to make a conditional offer.</p>
<p>Please state your IB, SAT I and II results:
SAT I: 2220
SAT II: Chem-700 Math II-790 Spanish-730
IB: English HL-6 History of the Americas HL-5 Chem HL-5 Math HL-4 (you would not believed how shocked i was i actually passed math lol, that exam was rough)
ITGS-4 (first year our school offered it) Spanish-7
(So as you see, my ib scores were not excellent lol, but they were actually among the highest in my class since this year our school happened to have a lot of issues with the ib program that impacted everyone’s scores negatively :/)</p>
<ol>
<li>Your rank: 2/300ish</li>
<li>ECs: the usual sports, a lot of volunteering, science team (which I started and captained), math team, NHS, tutoring, job concerning community health project, etc</li>
<li>Awards: definitely not going to list all but included state/regional awards for academic achievement and community service, national merit special scholarship winner, among a lot of school/local academic awards/scholarships centering around math/science</li>
<li>All recommendations: I thought they were pretty good. My ones from my guidance counselor and spanish teacher were amazing and chem teacher rec was great but not outstanding</li>
<li>Interview: Haha I actually thought I did horrible and was just rambling (it was one of my first interviews) but later on (after I was admitted) he told me how impressed he was by my interview so I guess I must’ve done something right 
For some reason, mine centered a lot around philosophy after I started talking about my TOK class so it was interesting since I really enjoyed the subject…</li>
<li>Where you are from: CT</li>
<li>School type: Public, has both AP and IB but IB program is relatively new (only a few years old) and therefore has its weaknesses</li>
<li>Strengths and weaknesses: Strengths I guess are test scores (not IB ones lol), awards/ECs that showed passion for science, good interview, unique essay (really I think my essay was the main thing that made me stand out - was humorous and kind of offbeat and started with an anecdote about me metaphorically “killing” the Easter Bunny when I was younger after an unfortunate circumstance concerning my classmates who believed in the creature and me, the child of recent immigrants, who had never heard of such a tradition and thought they were insane lol).
Weaknesses maybe include that most of my ECs were generic ones a lot of applicants have; only had a couple uncommon ones like scorer for a local cricket club or starting a science team from scratch.</li>
</ol>
<p>Hope that helps you in some way but just remember Harvard is full of people who never thought they’d get in or still don’t understand why they were admitted instead of someone else. The information I give you is only a small part of the puzzle of the sometimes inexplicable nature of Harvard admissions 
Good luck!</p>
<p>Thank you for your stats, arsenalcrazy! 
It definitely helped me to get a clearer picture of the IB candidates actually applying to Ivies… I personaly cannot post any grades since I’m not doing the IB yet, but as far as the HL Math test goes, I’ve heard a LOT of people, including some of the biggest Math geniuses at our school, complaining about the difficulty…</p>
<p>Does anyone know which US colleges may favor IB diploma candidates over partial IB or AP applicants? We just came across Tufts as accepting credits for some Standard Level IB courses (score 5 or above), but most colleges seem to only give credit to Higher Level IB. Thanks.</p>
<p>Well U.S. universities do use predicted grades as a part to judge admission. This is because, at least in terms of international candidates, many of them come from so called “international schools.” These schools, unlike American High Schools don’t have a transcript which takes into account quizzes, tests, homework, etc and then compile it into a cumulative GPA. They just have the IB program with all of its internal assessments and then an end of the semester exam which is typically a simulation of the IB board exams. Yes, some schools do carry a GPA along with these IB terminal exams but these are far and few behind. They for example, have tests, homework, etc before the terminals and a grade (something standard like an A, B, C scale) is then given to each student in addition to the IB mocks. In my case, the latter will be submitted for the colleges (possible Harvard) that I apply to. I think this would be an advantage having a GPA and mock transcript exams as well.</p>