<p>I am a junior that just came from Italy and I had to take 20 AP/Honors classes this year to improve my GPA.</p>
<p>Class Rank: Valedictorian/560
Unweighted GPA: 4.00
Weighted GPA: 4.80
SAT Critical Reading: 750
SAT Math: 770
SAT Writing: 770
Combined SAT: 2290
SAT II French: 760
SAT II Math II: 770
SAT II Physics: 780
AP Calculus AB: Pending
AP Chemistry: Pending
AP English Language: Pending
AP English Literature: Pending
AP European History: Pending
AP Italian: 5
AP Physics B: Pending
AP Psychology: Pending
AP Statistics: Pending
AP US Government: Pending</p>
<p>National Honor Society- Treasurer
Key Club- Secretary
Latin Club- President
Student Council.
Volleyball (Co-Captain).
Created Soccer Team/Goalkeeper.
Student of the month
Straight A's student.
Young Democrats.
Newspaper Editor.
Did lectures in class.
Valedictorian in Europe.
Speak 6 languages.
Able translator Greek/Latin.
Community service.
Worked as a tutor.</p>
<p>You pretty much just add to the list of people that make normal people like myself wallow in fear of applying to college. Your grades, test scores, and ecs are amazing. Write good essays and you’re pretty much golden (like everyone else here on CC). Sometimes, I kinda wish people were lying- they make us normal folk seem so… not extraordinary.</p>
<p>If he’s ■■■■■■■■, wouldn’t he at least have given himself the 75th percentile SAT score in at least 1 category. In all likelihood this candidate would not get into Harvard.</p>
<p>For Harvard, the question is always why would he? No exceptional EC’s, no SAT score above the 75th percentile, classes taken from virtual high school…this is a school where maybe 3% of unhooked applicants get in and the majority of 4.0, vals and 2400 scorers get rejected. They reject Olympic gold medal winners with great grades and scores.</p>
<p>Ok, so you’re telling us your average was SO low that you needed to take TWENTY honors/AP courses in ONE year to boost it? How low must it have been? Plus, with that much work, did you somehow become the new Einstein and discover how to make a 48 hour day?</p>
<p>even if he wasn’t… there’s no way this is getting into harvard. like the other guy said, no great ECs or leadership or recognition and test scores are good but not excellent.</p>
<p>“They reject Olympic gold medal winners with great grades and scores.”</p>
<p>…Really?</p>
<p>I remember reading that they rejected this one snowboarder or something but I didn’t hear that his grades were great. Plus, my school must be pretty damn remarkable then because we have 3 kids that were accepted by Harvard this year. (Last I checked, none of them even played a sport)</p>
<p>“They reject Olympic gold medal winners with great grades and scores.”</p>
<p>I have to agree with the previous poster who addressed this quote. MANY people who apply to Harvard are not remarkable, and MANY of those people get it. The prevailing attitude on this forum is that if you haven’t cured a terminal illness by twelve, you might as well apply to community college. Seriously, Harvard and Ivy Leagues are hard schools to get into, but everybody here makes them seem almost impossible.</p>
<p>If you are an Olympic gold medal winner with a remarkable SAT, great ACT, outstanding SAT IIs, and in the top 1% of your class, you’re probably set for Harvard. If you get rejected, well there’s always Princeton, Yale, and Standard I guess…although most people on here make it seem like choosing those schools is “settling”…haha.</p>