<p>@ XX5XX: Do I sense a bit of bitterness there? 
Ah well. Congrats on the BC acceptance, it’s definitely a GREAT school. And you get the added plus of being able to be in Boston! :)</p>
<p>I think all of us already recognize the difficulty of getting into Harvard… but hey, we can dream, right? And personally, I expect to get rejected… the odds are just against you from the beginning. But there’s this lovely little sentiment called hooope :)</p>
<p>Exactly! We can always try right? (And you probably have quite a good chance fuzzyfirebunny, seeing your other acceptance already!)</p>
<p>I like Dan Brown! (And not just because he went to Amherst.) </p>
<p>But I hate Twilight, sorry. IT IS AN OVERRATED PIECE OF MELODRAMATIC, PRETENTIOUS, ANTI-FEMINIST POOWIPE!!! AND THE REASON KIDS TODAY ARE SUCH SIMPERING, MASOCHISTIC, INSUBSTANTIAL, PLEASE-DOMINATE-ME-NOW-NEXT-MAN-I-SEE, DEPENDENT LITTLE TWATS!!!</p>
<p>Ahem, excuse me. </p>
<p>But yes. Hope. It’s why we do what we do, because, really, the odds are NOT in our favor.</p>
<p>This thread seems pretty cool.I mostly read intellectual books. I just finished Turgenev’s First Love. But for postmodernism, or pomo :), I love Murakami.</p>
<p>I read Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons a couple of weeks ago. Would you say First Love is better? I could put it on my reading list.</p>
<p>I just finished the Road (McCarthy) and The Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri), which was beautiful. Have any of you read either?</p>
<p>I don’t know if I’m looking forward to the movie for the Road, though.</p>
<p>Is it acceptable to fax a Secondary School report to Harvard and not mail it instead?</p>
<p>The Road was a little too depressing for me, I think. The Interpreter of Maladies was extremely well written.</p>
<p>@iBleedCrimson, is there a reason you can’t mail it?</p>
<p>the reason I ask is that my counselor faxed it and Harvard’s website says that it’s not received. So I just asked her what happened and she told me she just re-faxed it. Me : “Faxed???”
I thought she had mailed it. SO i wanna know if i’s acceptable</p>
<p>Oh, ouch, that sucks. I have no idea if it’s acceptable, but I imagine your counselor knows what’s going on. And Harvard provides a fax number for a reason, I guess. Though I’d be mad if I were you too :)</p>
<p>Harvard’s adcom is on break right now, so I’d check back in like 2/3 weeks?</p>
<p>I don’t trust my counselor alot on HYPSM & Ivy stuff because I don’t know if someone from my high school EVER applied to a top school. Maybe in the 1920s who knows. anyway thx</p>
<p>Well, there’s nothing that you can do about it now. Which kind of sucks, but I’d say trust your counselor? Harvard provides a fax, so they must use it for something.</p>
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<p>Hmm, they’re very different. I read both of them pretty quickly, like one-day books. First Love is much, much shorter. Under 100 pages. I think I liked Fathers and Sons more, but First Love is certainly worthwhile.</p>
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<p>I’ve read all of Lahiri’s stuff :). It sometimes gets a bit repetitive, especially when I was reading Unaccustomed Earth. The last part of Earth, which was a longer “short” story, was really good though.
My friend keeps begging me to read the Road though. He loves that whole style.</p>
<p>@fuzzyfirebunny: I am not bitter. Honestly, I knew I was never going to be accepted. I was merely exaggerating in my post. But it is true, though. Top schools want everything. They want high GPAs, test scores, and of course, that little special x-factor that completes the package.</p>
<p>I am lucky that less selective institutions focus more of their attention on transcripts and less on essays and “x-factors.”</p>
<p>BC is a great school, don’t get me wrong. Did you apply for it?</p>
<p>@iBleedCrimson: Why not request the transcripts and mail them yourself? The return address on the envelope should be the school’s address, and they will never know that it wasn’t mailed from the school.</p>
<p>Also, if a guidance counselor can help you get into Harvard, then there should much hooplah for the school district, particularly if it is a poor one. If you get in, trust me, your community will see you as some sort of hero.</p>
<p>I mailed most of the stuff but my transcript myself. My school mailed my transcripts for me for $3 each.(To 10 schools) My recommenders gave me the common app recommendations they made for me. So I made copies for different schools, printed out beautiful, personalized holiday themed envelopes from home and used them to mail the recs. I’ve had no prob doing that so far as I got into Notre Dame(back up) early action (non-binding).</p>
<p>hey guys did you get your interviews yet?
I haven’t heard anything yet. I’m worried :/</p>
<p>I got contacted by my interviewer 3 weeks ago. But i haven’t done the interview yet because of other interviews and college apps.I’m having it next week.</p>
<p>I liked The Road a lot! Have you read any other of McCarthy’s books?</p>
<p>I liked The Interpreter of Maladies. You should try Unaccustomed Earth by her, it’s pretty good too.</p>
<p>I just got Unaccostumed Earth in a second hand shop (Its the pre-published version; pretty cool, there notes of the editors in there!), Ill put it on my reading list!</p>