Harvard SCEA Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT: 33 (Math: 35, English: 33, Reading: 31, Science: 33)
SAT II: 770: US History, 790: Chemistry, 780: Math II
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.94
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): U.S. History (5) Chemistry (4) U.S. Government (4) English Language and Composition (5) Psychology (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Environmental Science, AP English Language and Composition, AP Physics, AP Biology, Band, AP Calculus BC
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Band (Co-principal and officer)
Job/Work Experience: Research (public policy-health care), Kumon (teacher’s assistant)
Volunteer/Community service: Member of Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (volunteer with patients and raise money for research), ALS Charity
Summer Activities: Oboe Program at Umich, Volunteer on City Council Campaign, Color Guard, volunteer at hospital
Essays: Common App about how I was verbally abused as a child. Supplement about how my city is known to be very liberal and accepting, but we don’t accept people with different views-republicans
Teacher Recommendation: both good
Counselor Rec: has a lot of students, so not very personal, but she likes me
Additional Rec:
Interview:
Other

State (if domestic applicant): Michigan
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: <100k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

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You’re going to be rejected. You have one generic ec and test scores are rather low for Harvard.

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I would advise against writing an essay on this. Colleges want to know about you as a person - not hear about how terrible your younger years were.

If you apply to Harvard, in all likelihood you’ll do nothing but inflate the denominator of their acceptance rate. The above poster has addressed the main issue already, and even students with truly unique ECs and near-perfect test scores are rejected 90% of the time.