<p>Heyo! Greetings from the East Coast.</p>
<p>Going through some of these “chance me” threads depressed me a bit since my SAT scores & APs weren’t exactly brilliant (sigh here).</p>
<p>~jokesbg779: Your post gave me a chuckle. xD I can almost picture the whole scene.</p>
<p>I would definitely still consider other colleges. There are so many that are basically the same academically but in much warmer environments 
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<p>On the other hand, I can’t deny that Harvard can offer unmatched opportunities.</p>
<p>Every college acceptance I get confuses me more about where I want to go. I think if I get into Harvard, I’ll reach critical mass and go insane.</p>
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<p>It depends on what you want to do… Go to a school where your major is strong.</p>
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<p>What about in comparison to Oxford? (I love Cambridge, and therefore hate Oxford, so no bias here). But, you know, the Oxford comma is the Harvard comma and vice versa. I think that’s evidence their names are matched. <em>nods</em></p>
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lol At this point I would turn Harvard down for MIT, if I were to get into both.</p>
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<p>i’ve seen that before, haha. i still prefer yale though, although H’s undergrad experience is wonderful. i still applied (before EA decisions) for FA.</p>
<p>although i love harvard very much, i still prefer stanford and mit XD
i mean, i want to study physics and chemistry, and i just think that stanford and mit have better undergraduate programs when it comes to undergraduate science…</p>
<p>but if i were a government (political science) or a social studies concentrator, i would definitely go to harvard… :)</p>
<p>either way, its a privilege to be even considered by harvard for admissions.</p>
<p>There are so many great institutions so therefore a yield of 80% is very impressive. If the University of Chicago was not so conservative in its financial aid offers, I would probably be attending there next year. I firmly believe that Chicago has the fastest growing undergraduate reputation of any university in the nation.</p>
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is harvard really better than yale for polisci?</p>
<p>lmao, that harvardrejects.org thing was funny</p>
<p>@Stupefy…it’s probably just as good. Again, it depends on your specialty. Polisci (or Gov @Harvard) is a diverse field. On the other hand, Yale’s history department is definitely better known.</p>
<p>Lol, harvardrejects dot org. It’s like stanfordrejects dot com. :D</p>
<p>Or at least we still have our safetyschool . org!</p>
<p>lololol those are hilarious!</p>
<p>How would harvard regard 3 perfect SAT II’s, Physics, Math II, and “French w/ listening” for a native speaker. I would take Chem but the non-honors(regular) Chem i took my junior year did not cover even half of the SAT Chem material. And, there’s no honors chem at my school. Harvard’s website says this. </p>
<p>Although some students whose first language is not English are ordinarily well advised to avoid taking an SAT Subject Test in their native language, there are exceptions to this general rule. For example, some students who are preparing for the International Baccalaureate here or abroad or for national examinations in their own countries might be less well prepared for certain SAT Subject Tests. So, too, might students who attend schools that generally do not prepare students well for specific SAT Subject Tests. Such students might wish to get the advice of their counselors about whether to take an SAT subject test in their native language, which might well support their academic credentials.</p>
<p>So, do you guys think they’re going to regard the French SAT as an easy way?
I might be helpful to consider that i’ve been in the U.S for ~2 years.</p>
<p>^I’d do it, but only as an additional thing. in other words, i’d take 3, and then the french as a sort of “bonus”
thats what we chinese kids do with the chinese exam. idk many chinese students who (for a school that requires 2 sat II’s) would only take chinese+ 1 other SAT.
plus the french SAT isn’t even that hard for non-native speakers. it was probably a huge joke for you. the equivalent of an english “a dog is a: a) cat b) planet c) God d) mammal”</p>
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<p>That is true. That’s why SATII language tests have such a high proportion of 800s. Also, the College Board cannot recenter the test since the material must match the curriculum taught in an introductory course.</p>
<p>^yeah which kind of diminishes our accomplishment as a non-native speaker. same with the french AP. something like 10% of test takers get a 5, but also half of those testers are native french speakers</p>
<p>Anyone know the FAFSA code for Harvard Undergrad?</p>
<p>It says: Harvard University - 002155</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>Harvard University- Harvard College - E00468</p>