<p>Li don’t count my chickens. What’s the definiton of Good academic standing? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>“first-gen, low income student with >2300 SAT and many SAT II’s >750- as first-gen usually reads low SAT scores”</p>
<p>Hmm, I thought most first-gen Asian students have straight As’, SAT close to 2400, and almost all SAT subjects close to 800, and still got rejected.</p>
<p>I’m not your typical Asian</p>
<p>OP…you seem to be searching for straws…about the request for quarter grades…</p>
<p>…I am going to be frank…and tell you that the majority of the SCEA applicants that are accepted did not have any “request” to have their quarter grades examined…especially the ones with “wow” achievements…so understand who you are competing with in the SCEA round…and who you will be competing with in the regular round…those who got rejected/deferred from Stanford, Yale, Princeton, MIT, etc…</p>
<p>Dasdui won’t stop until he/she hears what she/he wants: Yes, you’re so smart, smarter than all of the applicants who all are apparently the top of their schools, standardized tests, and EC, so you got in, and that’s why you got the request. But none of what I just said is true. People all gotta calm down and stop overthinking about their chances with non-important indicator and wait until they hear from the school.</p>
<p>^^ With that in mind, it’s probably best to keep this in mind: [J.D</a>. Rothman: Why Your Brilliant Child Didn’t Get Into The Ivies](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Why Your Brilliant Child Didn't Get Into The Ivies | HuffPost Life)</p>
<p>Humanities you aren’t interpreting correctly what I’m asking at all. I want to get in. That is all. Nothing else. Thanks for all your responses.</p>
<p>^^ Everyone who applies WANTS to get in. What you need to realize is that with 35,000 applicants, Harvard can pick and choose who they want – and they often pass over those students with perfect-everything in favor of candidates who have a “wow” factor. What is your "wow’ factor?</p>
<p>What’s my wow factor? I am the leader of an organization. However, my group has been making and breaking school and city records in everything we do. On top of that, we take advantage of one of the largest centers in the world for our activities, and have initiated state and national conferences on our topic of interest in one of the largest states in the US. I’m not being specific so as not to be identified. I hope you get the gist, if you don’t, I don’t care! The admissions committees have my resume! :)))</p>
<p>I’m also conveniently not perfect in everything.</p>
<p>Not to make light of your accomplishments, but here are a few Harvard graduates with “wow” factors: [Notable</a> Graduates | Harvard University](<a href=“http://www.harvard.edu/notable-graduates]Notable”>http://www.harvard.edu/notable-graduates)</p>
<p>It’s fitting that humanities doesn’t have an inkling about who I am and is now judging me. Read her post and was a amused by the tirade on applicants. You mentioned the stereotypical applicant . Unfortunately for you, I purposefully fought that stereotype through out my high school career and only focused on the things that I loved, which happens to be only two things, not the “list” that you mentioned!</p>
<p>Thanks for the link tubby. Whether or not into to h, I hope to accomplish</p>
<p>First, I also fought for what I’m seeking for so it’s not “unfortunately for me”. I also have a long life story which I can tell you day and night. I could’ve been on a talk show of a station from NPR about my life story, but I denied three times until they stopped contacting me in person and through email. So, you also made a huge generalization, didn’t you?</p>
<p>Read what I said again. You are obviously too upset that you would track all my writings and make short comments over time… Definitely shows that your mind isn’t stable. Take a breath and come back. What I wanted to say was waiting is a virtue. I was slightly amused by people telling you the same thing over and over, while you were asking the same question again and again as if you won’t stop until you hear the “satisfying” answer. If that wasn’t it, I’m sorry. But when you’re that nervous, it’s better to take off from this forum and do something else.</p>
<p>I was just tired of people putting on “chance me” and over-interpreting something that’s not really important. I took off for several days, but obviously, this forum is intriguing when I only have several days left until the decision. And I just try to give my thought as realistic as possible, instead of telling them “ohhh you have such good chances!” on every single post. It might sound bitter, but why would I have any emotion to strangers online to make tirades. I don’t check the forum that often, anyways. When you are emotional, it’s easy to interpret things personally. So as I already told you, just take a breath. Waiting is a virtue. </p>
<p>And the last thing I should say is I’m “he”, not “she”. Hope you have good luck with your process.</p>
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<p>Not to be insensitive, but are you currently taking your meds? I ask this in all sincerity, as your post is really over the top; it’s very emotional and unstable.</p>
<p>How does Harvard know which schools are on a quarter system? I applied early and my school runs on a quarter system, yet I don’t believe that Harvard has requested the first quarter grades from any applicant from my school. </p>
<p>On my transcript, only the final course grades are listed so there’s no indication of a quarter system there and the only other thing I can think of is the school profile which does not mention a quarter system.</p>
<p>@humanties: …</p>
<p>@gibby: lol</p>
<p>@terminal: same at my school. On my transcript, threes only semester grades. What do you think.</p>
<p>@humanities2014 and @dasdui, I think you two need a time-out. you’re both probably pretty cool people, so why don’t we just all chillax and be friends? nothing we can do about the admissions decisions now…</p>
<p>anyway, to actually answer the question, harvard requires 1st quarter grades. if you get a request, that’s absolutely nothing special - it just means your counselor didn’t send it when they were supposed to. if you go to a school on the semester system (aka mine), they still expect some sort of Q1 progress report (be it official or unofficial) and will ask for one.</p>
<p>remember that colleges want everyone to find out their decision at the same time, so they’re obviously not going to drop any hints. don’t ever try to read into anything, even the slightest premature judgment means you’re vastly overthinking any “sign” you think you’re picking up.</p>
<p>best of luck to everyone!</p>
<p>“Harvard requires 1st quarter grades”</p>
<p>^Hurricane658, can you please provide a citation for this? Nowhere on the website does it say that, nor was my counselor contacted/expected to be contacted about first quarter grades…</p>
<p>@ckfy63a according to my counselor, it’s communicated directly to your school. If you look at the offline “school report” attachment in the common app, there is a space for it.</p>