<p>Anyone got into harvard? What do you need 4 harvard?Do you need to be super-bright?</p>
<p>Are you serious about your third question???</p>
<p>No, you don’t need to be super-bright. This isn’t sarcasm at all.</p>
<p>Work ethic and being passionate about something or some things are the most important.</p>
<p>you need to have helped starving children in Uganda and joined a bunch of competitions and placed first in them and play 5 different instruments, and be a first generation college student and just be AMAZING…</p>
<p>That’s not necessarily true. My cousin’s friend’s aunt was a teacher in Detroit and she worked with a kid who had a 3.1 weighted GPA, didn’t even take the SATs, and all of his ECs were court-ordered community service (that he didn’t even complete) and he was admitted full-ride to Harvard.</p>
<p>he probably was poor or first gen college student and a minority on top of that</p>
<p>^Did you read that kid’s essays and recommendations? From the book “What You Don’t Know Can Keep you Out of College” it implies that your essays and your character are just as important as your grades and GPA and everything else. His/her character must’ve been amazing. </p>
<p>Also, that does not mean that you should get low GPAs and court-ordered community services to aim for Harvard.</p>
<p>His streetname was the “Admissions Deans Murderer”, and also he was fictitious. </p>
<p>For the OP; to get into Harvard, you need to have good grades, do well on standardized tests, and have passion in your extracurricular activities. The most important thing is to sell yourself well; you can have all the passion in the world but if you aren’t good enough at writing to convey it then it makes it harder for you to win.</p>
<p>lmao at the court-ordered community service that he didn’t complete.</p>
<p>^What do you mean, fictitious? He fakes his personality in real life? Or do you mean he faked his personality in his essay to make him seem like gold hidden in a pile of poop? I’m sorry, I just don’t believe you. I have no reason too. Sounds complete BS to me.</p>
<p>This is probably the stupidest thread I’ve seen on CC.</p>
<p>jahaba: Admitees to the HYPs do come from Detroit. Don’t besmirch them w/your askance attempt at humor. It’s one terrible school district – yet year after year, diamonds are found in the rough. I know. I recruit there and was also an alumnus from there.</p>
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<p>Of course they do. My story is total crap though. Basically, if you want to get into Harvard, you want to avoid pretty much everything my young friend did. You can still be from Detroit, of course, but you shouldn’t be a serial killer and you should make all of your court dates.</p>
<p>I poke fun at Detroit because I have lots of family there. When my people immigrated to America from Africa, they settled there because some lying serpent told them it was paved with gold and filled with milk and honey. You get some good people though, despite the struggle.</p>
<p>^Oh now you tell us it’s completely crap…</p>
<p>And, no, you don’t need to be super-bright, but you do need to be bright. Super isn’t the right word.</p>
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<p>^ This. Plus the fact that it’s also probably the most annoying. </p>
<p>Honestly, future Harvard admits don’t spend their free time going on forums and making threads like this. Go read Northstarmom’s post “Calculate your chances of admissions to Harvard” in the Harvard subforum ;)</p>
<p>Reading all of Northstarmom’s posts wouldn’t be a bad start either. Just sayin’!</p>
<p>Get into TASP, then worry about Harvard. It’s worked 100% of the time for my sample size of one. There were some minor wait listing issues, however.</p>
<p>Read the 2012 and 2013 decisions threads that are listed at the top of the forum page.</p>
<p>Thanks guys.</p>
<p>" My cousin’s friend’s aunt was a teacher in Detroit and she worked with a kid who had a 3.1 weighted GPA, didn’t even take the SATs, and all of his ECs were court-ordered community service (that he didn’t even complete) and he was admitted full-ride to Harvard."</p>
<p>The story can not be true. There are all sorts of untrue rumors about Harvard admissions. I’ve been on Harvard’s regional admissions committees for Detroit and other places. Harvard wouldn’t accept a student like that.</p>
<p>Maybe the student managed to get into Howard, however. Believe it or not, some uninformed people confuse the two schools.</p>
<p>Northstarmom-- I think it was a joke.</p>