HARVARD! What are my chances??

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>White female
17 years old
High School senior
Small, private, academic high school, must be accepted through testing</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0
Rank: 1/110 Valedictorian (First Semester, as of now)
SAT: 1500</p>

<p>Senior Classes:
French 5 (H)-96%
AP Physics-90%
AP English Literature and Composition-94%
AP American History-92%
AP Calculus-88%
Journalism and Broadcasting-97%</p>

<p>Junior AP’s:
AP Chemistry (4)
AP European History (4)</p>

<p>EC’s:
Drama (8 Years)
School Paper (2 Years)
Local Newspaper Teen Writers Section (3 Years)
Volleyball (3 Years)
Soccer (4 Years)
Class Rep for Student Council (1 Year)
Junior Class Vice President
Senior Class President</p>

<p>Awards:
Winner of contest for Teen Writers
Winner of Local Paper Writing Contest (2nd Place)
Outstanding French Award
Valedictorian Award (1st semester so far)
Highest GPA Award (shared by 2 people)</p>

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<p>I'm not sure you will be accepted. You have very good GPA, class rank and SAT score, but nothing too distinctive.</p>

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<p>nothing too distinctive? class president and vice president the year before plus 2 sports, a newspaper writer, and in drama.. I would say those are very solid EC's.</p>

<p>How are the SAT 2's?</p>

<p>If they are decent (all in the 700s) I would say you have as good of shot as anyone.</p>

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<p>Hate this expression. You say as she is very bad and with only decent SAT 2s she is as competetive as anyone. I think she is higher than average RD applicants.</p>

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<p>Harvardgirl8: I think your chances are 1 in 10. However, take a look at some info about recent Harvard admissions and figure out for yourself what your odds might be. Also head to the Harvard board on CC, and look at the background of those who got admitted EA.</p>

<p>"In a Harvard First, Women Admissions Outnumber Men (Update1) </p>

<p>April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Women make up more than half of the students admitted to the freshman class of Harvard University this year, the first time they have outnumbered men, school officials said. </p>

<p>The admitted class of 2008 includes 1,016 women and 1,013 men, a group chosen from 19,750 applicants, the second-most competitive year ever, said William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid. ...</p>

<p>"This year is the second-most selective, with 19,750 applicants, including 2,800 valedictorians and 2,700 who scored a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT college entrance exams. Another 2,000 students scored a perfect 800 on the verbal section, Fitzsimmons said. " From Bloomberg.com, April 1, 2004: <a href="http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aBWjF1YB68rk&refer=us%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aBWjF1YB68rk&refer=us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>From the Harvard Gazette about the class of 2006:</p>

<p>" For example, more than 54 percent of the candidates scored 1,400 or higher on the SATs; 2,100 scored a perfect 800 on their SAT mathematics test; nearly 1,600 scored 800 on their SAT English test; close to 2,900 were valedictorians of their high school classes; and 70 percent of the applicant pool were in the top 10 percent of their respective high school classes....</p>

<p>"The Class of 2006 has a wide range of extracurricular interests. The major extracurricular activities cited by students as a possible focus are music (27 percent), followed by creative writing, journalism, and other writing (26 percent), social service (19 percent), arts, dance and drama (18 percent), student government (13 percent), debate (11 percent), and political groups (8 percent). Almost 60 percent of the class plans to participate in recreational, intramural, or intercollegiate athletics." <a href="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.04/12-freshman.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.04/12-freshman.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Your ECs are actually quite solid but I'm a little surprised you're valedictorian, with your 88% in Calc and high Bs in Physics and American History. I'm not saying those aren't good grades...I am saying I know a couple of people who got rejected from Harvard who have taken more APs, received mid to high 90s in all of them, and have still gotten rejected. Also, how can you possibly have a solid 4.0 if you've gotten Bs? I'm friends with the valedictorian of my school's senior class and his grades are like this:
AP Calc: 97
AP Euro: 98
AP Physics: 96
Video Editing: 100
Then next semester, he has these classes:
AP American Civics
AP Probability & Statistics
Creative Writing/Literature & Philosophy
AP Psychology</p>

<p>The curriculum at my school does challenge and he has still managed to get As in everything. Is an A at your school 90-100 or 93-100?</p>

<p>I'd be surprised if you got into Harvard but g'luck anyway.</p>

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<p>Agree with Northstarmom. With your stats it's all about the application. You're qualifies as are about 80% of the applicants. You need to be one of the ones that successfully makes yourself stand out in an application.</p>

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<p>Hey. An "A" at my school is 90-100. Well, I haven't received final GPA calculations yet, but, yea, I just noticed it wouldn't be a solid 4.0. Hm, oh well. Its close.</p>

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<p>90-100. As it should be, I think. But I don't run my school, so...::cries::</p>

<p>You actually have As in all but one subject then. Awesome. And close to a 4.0 with those APs is also great.</p>

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<p>You have good academic stats...but your ECs are less than appealing. Sure, class president/sports/whatnot may be solid, but from what I've seen in admissions, they're looking for something creative. Truth be told, they might have over 2,000 other class presidents in the applicant pool, so things like that may not stand out. Just my honest opinion.</p>