Harvard... I see you! (chances)

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<p>I have always wanted to go to Harvard, and I was hoping y'all could help me figure out what kind of chances I have of going there :)</p>

<p>Well, here it goes:</p>

<p>School Info: Public School in Ohio, not a magnet or a school that regularly sends out kids to Ivies. :(</p>

<p>Sex: Male</p>

<p>Oh-so-important ethnicity: Asian American... Indian Subcontinent :P</p>

<p>GPA: 4.5 Weighted GPA, I imagine 4.0 Unweighted</p>

<p>Rank: 2 out of like 250+, forget the number. I was #1 for like the first 2.5 years of my high school career</p>

<p>SAT - 2260:
800 M
750 CR
710 W (i got a 730 first time, but i got a 9 on essay second time instead of 10 the first)
SAT Subject Tests:
Chem 800
Math 2 800
(taking Latin this fall before app time!)
PSAT - 221:
80 M
72 CR
69 W
(Commended, i'll get the Semi-finalist stuff some time soon)</p>

<p>APs:
US History - 3 (I had no idea what I was doing Freshman year)
US Government - 5
Chemistry - 5
European History - 4
English Language - 4
(taking BC Calc, Physics, Bio, Latin, and English Lit this year, as well as IB tests in Chem, Bio, Latin, English (maybe), and Math (all HL))</p>

<p>Leadership:
Academic Team Captain (3 years)
Tennis Captain (this year)
Class VP (this year)
Class Communications Officer (last year)
Senior Volunteer at Hospital (past 2 years)
Founder and President of Computer Club (3 years)
Cabinet Member for Cheerblock Committee (1 year)</p>

<p>ECs:
Varsity Soccer (1 year)
Varsity Tennis (4 years)
Varsity Academic Team (4 years)
National Honor Society (2 years... longest you can have it in our school)
Math Team - consistently top 5 out of entire school for past 2 years (4 years)
Student council (4 years)
Cheerblock committee (1 year... can only do as senior)</p>

<p>Outside of School:
Senior Volunteer at local hospital (2 years, volunteered for 4) - over 100 hours
Volunteer at local nursing home (6 years) - over 100 hours
Shadowing: Gen Surgeon (for a week, about 50 hours?), Radiologist (for 5 hours), Internist (for 10 hours)
Cancer research at local university - 3 years
Piano - 12 years</p>

<p>Summer:
Summer Intern at Air Force Institute of Technology ANT Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base this past summer
Summer before, took AP Comp Sci A at Northwestern Equinox Summer Prog
Summer before that, took Latin 2 Independent Study</p>

<p>Also, I have gotten to the state science fair twice, got a superior both times, and the 1st place governor's award in environmental sciences.</p>

<p>Thanks In Advance!</p>

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<p>my goodness, an Indian who says "ya'll". Academically, you are a strong applicant, like everybody else. I think your EC's are pretty good too, especially the internship, shadowing doctors, and science fair awards. Was your cancer research published anywhere? Are you good enough at tennis you be recruited? Those are things that I think would improve your chances. Overall I think you stand a good chance with a carefully assembled application consisting of the right recommendations and an excellent essay.</p>

<p>The worst part of your application, however, is the lack of focus in your activities. (Computer Club, Cheerblock Comittee?)</p>

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<p>yeah, i know what you mean about the lack of focus. I'm on cheerblock because I'm a varsity athelete, and because I'll be captain of the tennis team. Cheerblock is basically how we get the student body to be active in our sports activities, so we try to get all the varsity captains to get people to go out to "cheerblock" games.</p>

<p>And my brother and I founded the computer club because both of us have built our own computers, and have dealt with many, many hardware and software problems, so we felt that it would be a nice thing for us to share our knowledge with the faculty and the students. :)</p>

<p>I did actually present some of my research at the Ohio Academy of Science, and I am probably going to do so again this year.</p>

<p>I'm not really sure what I should do with the lack of focus. I'm actively involved with everything I listed up there, and I'm trying to get to #1 by the end of the school year too... Anyone have any ideas on how I could either show that I'm actively involved in all of it or how i could show how I have "focus" in something? I guess I could say I have a focus in my medicine-related stuff, and the rest I do for fun... I dunno, anyone have any ideas?</p>