<p>What do i need do i need to do to get into Harvard. Im trying to get an early start on college. Im only 14 but its time to start searching you know? Help anyone</p>
<p>Are you kidding me? Don’t worry now. Be focused on your studies and do hobbies/activities you like. In the end you might get into harvard, but you probably won’t (most people don’t). That is ok though. Dont become fixated on this.</p>
<p>^^ @Mizzaliya44, what grade are you in?</p>
<p>First of all, you need to know that there is nothing you can do that will guarantee you admission. But if you’re 14 and you want to be a competitive applicant for top colleges three years from now, I do have a few of pieces of advice for you:</p>
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<li><p>Take the most challenging classes you can handle, and get the best grades you can. If you’re kind of a lopsided student (for example, maybe you aren’t great at math, but you excel in foreign languages), that’s OK, but you need to keep challenging yourself appropriately in your areas of relative weakness.</p></li>
<li><p>Be thoughtful and purposeful about the way you spend your time on non-academic things. Let your extracurricular life tell the story of who you are, and who you’re becoming. If you’re outdoorsy, maybe you’ll do a wilderness-adventure program for a summer or two, and then become a group leader. If you’re interested in government and politics, volunteer on a political campaign, or a ballot initiative, or even for a non-partisan get-out-the-vote organization. If your family needs you to spend your time away from school helping run the family business, that’s fine too, but take on new responsibilities year by year. It doesn’t matter very much what you do. What matters is that the things you do should show the world the kind of person you are, and that whatever you choose to do, year by year you show measurable progress or increasing maturity.</p></li>
<li><p>But please don’t think that means you can’t change directions along the line. At 14, you might be convinced that you want to be a veterinarian, but by 17 you may have decided your talents really lie in music or world languages or social studies, instead of science. That’s OK. Because changing directions is progress, too, and your elective classes and your activities outside school can tell a story like that just as clearly as they could if you were destined from birth to become a leading researcher on infectious diseases.</p></li>
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<p>I wouldn’t say 14 is too young to start worrying about colleges…that’s a freshman in high school, right?</p>
<p>Sikorsky’s advice is good. Be sure to try a lot of different activities. I italicized “try” because that doesn’t mean you should expect to be a member of 10 clubs for 4 years of high school. But you should at least initially expose yourself to a wide variety of new academic and extracurricular interests…and if you’re a normal 14 year old, most interests should be new to you. You’ll like some activities and stick with them; you’ll hate some activities and drop them.</p>
<p>Some people will advise you to pick one thing you’re passionate about and build your application around that. They’ll say if you think you want to be a doctor, you should volunteer at a hospital and do research and found the biology club at your school and shadow a doctor and tutor your peers in biology. All of those things are fine…and by all means do them if you think you’d love them, but that consistency doesn’t necessarily make you a better applicant. There’s nothing wrong with variety, and it might even be an advantage to not be a cookie-cutter mold of what you think Harvard wants you to be. </p>
<p>In short, it’s alright to be the physics-lover who’s also the captain of the Model UN team. I bet Harvard doesn’t get as many of those.</p>
<p>Dwight’s advice is good, too.</p>
<p>Just eat a lot of chicken and you’ll be fine.
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just kidding…I was in your situation too, and I made the mistake of not starting tennis earlier, if you have something you’re good at and able to continue it, DO IT. If you’ve (for example) played violin since age 2, then continue that or whatever. Depth man.</p>