<p>Has anyone on this forum gotten into Harvard with less than a 3.9uw gpa?</p>
<p>lets say like a 3.5 or 3.6</p>
<p>excluding atheletes,urms, etc.</p>
<p>i had less than a 3.9, and i got in.</p>
<p>Hahahaha. Are you kidding? Yes!!!! This is what I dislike about CC. It sets up this image of a university that will not accept anyone other than the PERFECT student. If you do not have great grades, don't worry. Essays are big, along with a variety of other factors. I've known people to get in with C averages because they just had really compelling applications.</p>
<p>=] Well I'm going to apply to Havard with a 3.4 xP. Yay for me!</p>
<p>boston usmc: what was your gpa? were you recruited or anything like that?</p>
<p>Mine will be somewhere between a 3.6 and a 3.7 when I apply. </p>
<p>Hey Accionara, are you serious? Do people actually get into Harvard with Gpa's that low? </p>
<p>I mean we hear about all the perfect people who get rejected, its hard to imagine them dipping that low in the Gpa. If you do have a 3.7 Gpa what kind of Sat's/Act's do you need to compensate?</p>
<p>If you look at the old Harvard Decision Threads, low GPAs and/or low SATs are compensated by doing something incredible (I mean INCREDIBLE) in terms of ECs or non statistical.</p>
<p>heh I too browsed the CC and decisions boards of other websites and I was hardpressed to find many non URM, non athlete, non legacy applicants with a GPA less than a 3.9 getting into HYP. I too am interested in this issue since I applied to Harvard with a 3.79 uw.</p>
<p>I promise all of you what I'm saying is true. I've seen many with C averages, and average SAT scores (and when I mean AVERAGE) get into many ivies, including Harvard. Some of them were URM's, and athletes, but some weren't. They just wrote damn good essays, had damn good recs, and were just the type of people the Ivies are looking for nowadays. </p>
<p>Of course, keep in mind that I go to an elite boarding school in New England, where a C average here would make you number one in your class anywhere. But that doesn't make my statement any less true. Kids with C's and 1800 on their SAT's have beaten out kids with perfect GPA's and great SAT's just becuase they had PERSONALITIES. They were fresh, and you could see that through the rest of the applications.</p>
<p>jason4444, mine was 3.66 when i applied, and is 3.74 now. my school is viewed a little uniquely though: it is technically a public school, but it is actually a very competitive "exam school", which you take a test to get into. we got 14 in EA, and usually end up with 20-30 total admits a year. however, i had by FAR the lowest GPA, lol. i would like to compete in harvard athletics, but i am not a recruited athlete. </p>
<p>hope that helps, but i dunno if it did.... :-D</p>
<p>boston usmc- do you go to boston latin?</p>
<p>indeed. do you, Squiggle88?</p>
<p>so why do you think you got in?</p>
<p>what was your sat?</p>
<p>Boston Latin! What a cool school :).</p>
<p>jason4444: i had 730V, 720M. i'm not really sure WHY they accepted me...maybe they just really liked me or something, lol. I had a lot of substantial ECs: class president, student council president, indoor and outdoor varsity track captain, boys golf team (im a girl), school news show anchor, then this whole complicated slew of student government things that i miss a lot of school for (we call them GBRSAC and SSAC). i also take dance outside of school for 5 hours a week and do a lot of other random ECs. i'm thinking that maybe my desire to become a Marine Corps officer, (and also do ROTC), definitely made me stand out though; harvard says that they are looking for people who "will make a difference in the world". it's hard for me to evaluate WHY i got in, but maybe that gives you an idea. any other questions? i'm happy to answer. </p>
<p>tchaikovsky, do you go to BLS??</p>
<p>Haha, no nothing like that...I used to go to Andover, but I'm now at Harvard-Westlake. A lot of my friends (who already graduated) went to Boston Latin.</p>
<p>Ya Andover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>boston usmc- no i don't, i go to a different public school near boston, but i've heard that a lot of people go to harvard from boston latin each year</p>
<p>Hmm...I've a question. Not to sound ignorant, but could someone please explain to me how GPA is calculated? Does it vary depending on the school one attends? For example, I'm studying in an international school in Ethiopia, and here our GPA is out of 4.3. Is it the same everywhere else?</p>
<p>A=4
B=3
C=2
D=1
F=0</p>
<p>Average all your grades and you will get your unweigted gpa (uw). Ignore pluses and minuses. </p>
<p>(Could someone verify this is this how all the top colleges do it?)</p>
<p>Btw: Stanford and Princeton don't count Freshmen (9th) Year in this.</p>