<p>Yeah; didn't someone post something about this? Anyway, it doesn't matter how many kids applied and whatnot - I'm just hoping for the best ;D</p>
<p>O wow...4165...so roughly 416 of those people will get in? Panic bells are definitely ringing.</p>
<p>Woah, I was searching for Harvard admissions data (trying to find EA % from last year, which was definitely higher than 10%), and I found this creepy white supremacist page. I'm posting it only because it's absolutely ridiculous (I doubt there are 2,000 Jews at Harvard, and even if there were, their conclusions are still inane). ]</p>
<p>nah...maybe more like a 1/5 or 1/4 of those apply</p>
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<blockquote> <p>I doubt there are 2,000 Jews at Harvard, and even if there were, their conclusions are still inane <<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>The number of 2000 undergrads for Jewish students comes from the Hillel Society of Harvard, the Jewish organization on campus, which actually follows the numbers of Jews, because the adcoms do not. There is no box on the application form to check off for Jews. There is no reason to doubt the number of 2000.</p>
<p>Jews are the largest ethnic and religious minority group on the Harvard campus at 30% of Harvard's students. Asian Americans are the second largest minority group at 18%. Jews are 2.5% and Asian Americans are 4% of the the American population, making them the two most overrrepresented groups on the Harvard campus, comprising of 48% of Harvard's students.</p>
<p>Check out:</p>
<p>Overall, Jews make up about 25% , while Asian Americans make up about 15% of all the 8 Ivy colleges, or 40% of the whole Ivy League's undergraduate students.</p>
<p>redtomato!! my AI according to that calculator was 9 and i'm thinking of majoring in molecular biology and maaaaaybe in math (depends)</p>
<p>and how many do they take in at ea? just wondering.</p>
<p>Last year, they accepted 906 out of a little under 4,000. I would expect about 950-1,000 out of this years group. Please, someone correct me if im wrong.</p>
<p>chatterjoy87 </p>
<p>harvard ea will definitely by over 20%.. more like 25 - 30 this year.</p>
<p>oh, that's more comforting. I thought that the EA acceptance rate was the same as RD because of the more competitive applicant pool, and wasn't RD's about 10%?</p>
<p>Major: Physics/English
AI- 226</p>
<p>How do you get that it will "definitely" be over 20%? Sure, it will PROBABLY be over 20, but I think "definitely" is a bit strong, unless you know something I don't.</p>
<p>This is the essay i sent to Harvard, tell me what you guys think:</p>
<pre><code>At the age of seven, while flying to Uzbekistan, the pilot had an extreme heart attack. Id picked up heart surgery from television with my advanced observational skills, and using the plastic trays from the seats in front of me, I used them as rib separators. I was undeterred by the blood. I had to save this man.
Using a stewardesss nail file, I punctured the aorta and removed the dastardly blood clot using a bottle of duty free perfume. I knew the chemical composition of the perfume would dissolve the clot, according to Avogadros theory of molecular polarity.
The copilot, drunk off his patootie from the tiny tequila bottles they give out, was comatose. I treated him and landed the plane, all by myself. The communication had cut off because there was a hurricane that had taken off one wing.
I stepped out of the plane into the ridiculously small clearing I had skillfully, but barely managed to steer the plane into. I thought we were in Florida. It was boggy, and there were gargantuan insects everywhere. But then lo! A spaceship approached. The lights burned the sclera of my passengers, chemically turning the composition of the protein to that of a cooked egg.
Using the lights of a phosphorescent insect, I taught myself a new surgical maneuver to restore the sight of the passengers. I gave them all surgery free of charge; after all, I am a self-made millionaire. (I gathered all of my wealth posing for beautiful body appreciation magazines, usually found in adult stores).
The aliens were shaped like large walking flowers. They were from a hostile planet, but I neutralized their light refraction prism metaphysabox using a supersonic mega-speed gamma ray.
I took the spaceship, and using the computer system, I discovered the equation for the space-time continuum actuality theorems magnification of manifestation.
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<pre><code>The sunlight streamed through my Venetian glass windows. The maid rang my bell twice to wake me, and fluffed my quetzal-down silk brocade jacquard boucle upholstery Martha Stewart pillows. All 7 of them. After soaking in my lavender bath, I proceeded to save orphans. After they had all been rescued from the jaws of a herd of flesh-eating griffons (not to be confused with the herbivore variety), I protected a unicorn who was being prosecuted for its horn.
That day was like the landmark day of my life a landmark like the Camino Real signs on the 101 Freeway.
As I looked off into the horizon, I saw a huge cloud of smoke, traveling my way. Using my rippling deltoid muscles, I climbed to the top of a tower to see what the disturbance was. With my super human sight detectors, I saw that this explosion was going to obliterate mankind (as well as rabbit kind, and tree kind, and so forth) off the face of the earth. I had to do something. I took a small, red panueleta from my pocket and mixed it with the only pure source of einsteinium in the world (which I had extracted) and created a forcefield, to protect myself from the explosion.
After the catastrophe had passed, I looked around and realized that everything had been destroyed. I knew all mankind had perished.
But then! I found that my technologically advanced marvel of science had saved myself
along with one lone woman.
I took it upon myself to repopulate the earth. The woman, whose name I have forgotten, readily agreed. Who could resist me? Needless to say, I succeeded, and prevented the problem of incest by using DNA technology.
I later found that this senseless tragedy was caused by a flambé incident in France. The stinky cheese, which produces viscous gases, reacted with oxygen in the air, causing a massive explosion.
I was in Djibouti one day (after finishing my quantum physics homework), when I saw a crying old man.
Why, good sir, why dost thou weep? I asked in my perfect African dialect.
Because the music of my people will be lost if we do not find a person to repair the Great Music Ancestral Underwater Basket.
Of course, I offered to help his village, and by supersaturating my blood with oxygen, I was able to preserve this beautiful art for future generations, which happened to be the source of all music traditions in the world. It really touched my heart and I became a better person than I was already was, which was difficult considering how great I am, but still.
Some people say that the Almighty can only parcel out a certain amount of gifts to each person. The beautiful are often empty-headed; the genius, hideous.
But not I.
I am a godly creature; in form, figure, and physiognomy. When I found a venue to display my overwhelming radiance in the Mr. Janss Marketplace competition, I naturally jumped at the opportunity.
It was a close race. But after the swimsuit competition, where I sported my bass guitars G string, the competition was over.
Instead of singing in the shower, I reflect on the good I have brought to this world. I step out of the shower, go to the 100 times magnified mirror, and say to my reflection: Who is that dead sexy man?
But through all these things, I learned something significant, enduring, and universal.
I am brown.
</code></pre>
<p>What? I hope you didn't really submit those essays, because quite frankly, they suck.</p>
<p>Were you influnced by that one NYU essay that is hailed as "the greatest college essay ever written?" I disagree with that standpoint, but still, I admit THAT essay shows quite a bit of creativity.</p>
<p>Your essay, however, lacks all that creativity and seems to be just a 500-word egotrip. By the end of reading it, the only thing I have discovered about you is that you are either arrogant or on drugs, probably a combination of the two. If you were trying to make me laugh, I think you should know that I'm not. Not at any point did I even crack a smile.</p>
<p>Harvard accepts ~1000 students from the EA group, regardless of the number of applicants. (check the archives of the crimson)</p>
<p>So, this year the acceptance rate for EA should be ~25%.</p>
<p>Urgh... indiandude why the *** did you even write that? </p>
<p>I agree with ubercollegeman: seems like you are just rewriting that NYU essay. :( And THAT essay really was well written and creative.</p>
<p>When I wrote my Harvard essay, I <em>made sure</em> that I did not even come close (in terms of subject matter) to all and any college essays I had ever read/heard about in my life. </p>
<p>Sorry man, but that essay made no sense at all.</p>
<p>19 days left until Dec 10</p>
<p>fact check time. of the 4165 EA applicants, are you certain that historically 20-25% (or ~1000) of them are accepted at EA decision time? where do you get these numbers</p>
<p>How large is an incoming class anyway?</p>
<p>yuck...19 days</p>
<p>what is this greatest college essay ever? someone post it</p>