@LondonVall thanks for the advice. Too late for Harvard app but will send in if we apply to others!
@crimsondream22 Palestine
@cgwade900 Same lmao. I have also already googled ‘How to deal with a rejection from a top university’ to read about how others have dealt with it, just in case you know ;).
@nekanorneki Sadly, I am in the exact same boat…
@crimsondream22 I also hope that haha! Man, the only thing that calms me is the fact that olympians (referring to olympiads, not olympics) often get in…
It wild to think that 85 percent of you will be rejected from the early admissions pool.
@Harvard2022maybe Best of luck!
@Tomas1355 True. Olympiad medals really boost the chances!
@nigerianfencer Thanks for the reminder lmao STOP
anyone applied for Harvard x NEC or Berklee? do you think this boosts admission chances or more competitive?
@Tomas1355 Which Olympiad (Phy, Chem, Maths)? And are you a gold medalist? (If you are, I assume you got in without an interview). And were your essays so good that they reflected your personality without even needing an interview?
@fluffysimba more competitive. you can be accepted to harvard and not to berklee or nec program
If anything, it’s more competitive. it certainly does not boost chances, IMO
@1stanbu1 I am also from Turkey. Which high school you are going to if I may ask
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That rather defeats the concept of the site being called College Confidential.
@Harvard2022maybe Are you a Palestinian citizen of Israel?
@fluffysimba I applied to Harvard-NEC! Fingers crossed!
This thread is lacking. Cornell was at like 100+ pages by now lol
@MaybeHarvard2022 Cornell receives more applicants than Harvard, so that isn’t surprising.
@Edwardo77 can you not
@nekanorneki My main academic achievements: Bronze medalist National Informatics Olympiad (3rd), participant int’l math competition, prizewinner National Mathematical Kangaroo, national equivalent of Siemens Finalist, National Astronomy Olympiad top 10, 7 programming languages, 5 languages, got into the national equivalent of RSI, self-studied 2 master’s courses of/at the Univeristy of Amsterdam my junior year (in high school obviously), broke some academic records in my school and some more stuff.
As for my essays… I truly have no idea lol… My essays were extremely honest, so it could’ve been a 6/10 but also a 9/10 or 10/10 depending on who reads it. They definitely reflected my personality though. More valuable were my letters of recommendation, I guess. For some reason, all of my recommenders just sent it to me and to be fair, they’re better than allen chang’s. I could not have written better letters of recommendation myself. These letters must be the strongest points out of my whole application.
However, still no interview so idk xd. The fact that the decision has already been made, but I just don’t know it yet, makes me really, really, really curious.
PS I’m aiming for silver/gold this year 
I am still not over how strange my interview was. He asked me literally no questions about myself, instead wanted me to ask him questions the whole time. Do you think that hurt me?
(I know someone is gonna say, well, wait until 7 and you’ll find out! I just want to see what y’all think)