<p>Do you have to be perfect to get into harvard?</p>
<p>...no. Just need skill and some luck.</p>
<p>Of course being perfect couldn't hurt.</p>
<p>No one is perfect. Also Harvard accepts many with very good but not the extremely high stats and rejects many who appear close to perfect. It is partly an objective and partly a subjective process. You need high grades and test scores and a challenging high dschool course load to be considered (mainly objective part) but then decisions depend also on a lot of other factors concerning who you are derived from essays, EC's, recommendations, and interviews (the subjective part). Nevertheless, no matter how great your stats and your belief that you are Harvard material, you should always assume Harvard is a reach.</p>
<p>I know two people who got turned down by Cornell but accepted at Harvard...they are good students but clearly not 'perfect'.</p>
<p>I think there is a lot of unnecessary hype around these type of universities. That is undesirable because it misleads a lot of kids into becoming desperate to get into these, while they probably would be much better off in another place.</p>
<p>Do you have to have high grades (I have a C and numerous Bs; hardest courseload though; 95 weighted GPA)? I go to a medical magnet school; I don't know my ranking...probably like in the top 25%. I think I have ECs going for me, as well as the recommendations. I'm a Mexican male, if that helps. I'm hoping my SATs will be 2100+.</p>