@cmc1999 Of course Stanford is a completely different animal…Harvard isn’t trying to become Stanford or vice versa but they are looking to be more competitive in the areas of STEM to draw those students. Not to mention MIT right down the road.
Heck Dartmouth is looking to improve it’s STEM simply because it misses out on quite a few recruited athletes due to their reputation in the Ivy league.
I had my Harvard interview today and I think it went well! My interviewer was pretty laid-back and casual, which I really appreciated.
@lilyfullford If your ACT composite is 32 but your English is 36, then you really did poorly on math. In that case, retake the exam. 25% of Harvard admits have full scores. You belong to that quartile too. Sorry to hear that your north African root is not considered URM. 
@moscott Didn’t Dartmouth say they picked up Harvard rejected athletes and then beat Harvard in sports? Or was that a joke?
What day do SCEA decisions come out?
It’s unconfirmed but I believe I’ve heard the 13th
So I had my interview today and it was super laid back. Good conversation on a multitude of topics, I think.
I emailed her afterwards telling her thanks again and part of her reply was “It was a pleasure talking with you, and I do wish you all the best in your college search and future undertakings.” She also said something similar at the end of our meeting.
Given that she generalized it and said “college search,” would you say this is a bad sign? Or am I trying to read the tea leaves?
@Dataminer Lol, I haven’t herd that one. They did extremely well in football this year and beat Harvard head to head. Dartmouth is different then other Ivy schools in regards to recruiting. They are very late into the year compared to Harvard but I’m not sure how many “rejects” they get. So far this year Dartmouth has 1 commit and Harvard 20!
@shehar17
ACT 34 UW GPA 3.85
4APs plus 2 he is currently taking
AP world - 4 ; AP Lang -5 AP Calc- 5 AP chem-3
EC’s- Varsity Starter in Football,
worked as Football referee
volunteered as a lineman coach in the junior football league
Does weekly Video production broadcast at school
Plays guitar recreationally
Worked at dental office part time
Baby sits and tutors some kids at the neighborhood
Nothing really spectacular with the awards. But he’s ECs are very focused on football which he enjoys the most.
Waiting game right now. Looks like everyone is qualified but they don’t have enough seats for everyone so good luck
No they don’t.
https://oir.harvard.edu/files/huoir/files/harvard_cds_2017-18.pdf
75th percentile for math is 35. And you can’t add percentile subsections together despite what Prepscholar erroneously says year after year.
According to their common data set I’m in the 81.99 % of freshman with act math of 30-36. Hoping that that is enough for them to move on from test scores and look at class load and ec’s. Thanks for the information @skieurope
I’m facing a similar problem. For the ACT, I got a 34, but I got a 27 in science (36 in every other section, 35 in English).
But I retook it and I got a 31 in science and a 34 (35 super scored), but that was the Oct. ACT and was submitted after the subcommittee’s probably met.
Do the admissions officers care about low subscore for ACT science as a STEM major (I have African-Amer. fist-gen, low-income hooks)?
I think everything else about my app. is good and I’m just hoping I passed to the next stage of admissions so they can use my better ACT science. @skieurope
@Euclid314 Not a bad score for someone with your background. And you are competing with applicants of similar background. You will hope there aren’t a lot of them but there could be many
@moscott oh, Dartmouth even said they beat Harvard in academics too (I took that as saying their athletes did better in academics than Harvard’s even though they were Harvard rejects.)
@skieurope Thanks for clarifying the score distribution. So, that’s even better for those with full scores, smaller proportion. I’m actually a little puzzled that the top quartile has SAT 1590 but only ACT 35. I think SAT 1590 is harder than ACT 35. Maybe even harder than ACT 36 composite.
@ginamd03 Maybe Harvard needs some football referees and your son just happens to have that talent. Like @moscott said, Harvard can’t even beat Dartmouth.
@Dataminer Easy there lol. I said Dartmouth beat Harvard this year. That win snapped a 14 year losing streak to Harvard. Harvard is ranked #1 of the Ivy league football teams in football recruiting for 2019.
The top quartile is not 1590. The top quartile for EBRW is 790 and for math is 800. You cannot just add them together to say the top quartile is 1590; that’s a rookie mistake @dataminer. I posted a proof of this a while back (and no, I’m not planning on looking for it), but short answer, the students in the top quartile of EBRW are not an exact overlay of those in the top quartile of M.
Does anyone know when they’re going to send out decisions? Last year’s forum has people who seemed to know when SCEA decisions would come out.