<p>lol, i am happy for rpmautosport, but nguyent, wow...congratulations* for one...and the adcoms are not "SMARTER, BETTER, MORE EDUCATED" than people on CC, and adcoms aren't perfect either. They make mistakes like everyone else. According to "A is for Admission", a book written by a former dean of admissions at Dartmouth, Adcoms are not college proffessors, and some of the smartest applicants may actually be smarter than their admissions officer.</p>
<p>The point of this post was not to say rpmautosport should not have been accepted, because I truely believe he should have; anyone who can make over 500,000 in sales when in high school should go to Harvard.<br>
Remember nguyent that over 19,000 applicants were rejected at Harvard this year, and some of them deserve to be there as much as the acceptees. Don't make people's struggle for 4 years (not "practically anyone can get 4.0, great scores, and nice ECs") look insignificant and meaningless. Anyways...</p>
<p>i totally agree......mainting above a 4.0, getting near perfect SAT and getting two perfect scores on two SAT II tests was something to commend about. I do commend that you had a successful business, but can that just automatically justify your admission to an Ivy League? I'm not being jealous or anything but just outraged. I could've opened along with my parents 2-3 Liquor stores or gas stations and made a substantial amount of money (maybe not $500,000) but atleast the adcoms will know that I am a successful business man. Yet I chose to focus on my studies, get exceptionally high grades, graduate with high honors and have completed a lot of EC's. Oh well.... whatever happened was in the past.</p>
<p>This isn't any of my business, but I figured I'll put my two cents in while everybody else does...</p>
<p>Congratulations, first of all, for getting accepted to Harvard! The hard part's over with ;)</p>
<p>I think it's evident that your fabulous EC's had a significant impact on Harvard's decision to admit you, and I think it was justified. Setting up your own business and being successful shows that you have guts, initiative, business savvy, a global mindset (using the Internet! that's exactly the idea that got Amazon.com started...), tenacity, and faith in your abilities. Even if you have lower test scores, you're the kind of person who will, and already is, succeeding in the real world.</p>
<p>To all the doubters, I think THAT is why he was admitted to Harvard. Yes, mosharma134, you could have opened a few liquor stores, but that's not the point here. There's a big difference between "could have" and "did." Please don't take offense; your stats are incredible and perhaps Harvard should have admitted you. If I had a university, I definitely would have! But really, in today's world, there aren't really any BAD universities. There are good reputations and there are great reputations and there are spectacular reputations. The education you walk away with from any of these places depends largely on your own determination and hunger for learning, as has been proved by the many success stories on this website, from 'top tier' and 'bottom tier' schools alike.</p>
<p>Mosharma,
Your view of admissions is totally skewed towards what you are told to believe. Good scores and grades do not necessarily reflect on a person's ability to succeed at a University. There is a HUGE difference between opening up a few liquor stores and what i've done. How many 17 years olds, let alone adults have written several business models, raised venture capital, and oversee the administration of 20 people? </p>
<p>Great if you have good grades, but you obviously have an inferiority complex. Believe me when I say I've run into tons of "haters." They hate me because I have a porsche, they hate me because I'm dating the such and such, they hate me because I don't look like your typical bookworm. The list goes on, but at the end of the day I know I've earned everything myself.</p>
<p>rpmautosport .....like i said before, i was not hating on you because there is not point for me to do so. whatever happened has happened in the past. However I just have one more question before I will end this topic..........
We all know that your EC's were probably the only factor that got you into Harvard and that is good. However one thing I don't understand is that why hasn't your EC's look appealing to Boston University and Babson? I am not doubting your admissions or anything but it is just a little wierd why your outstanding EC's did not work at these two schools. Sort of makes you think twice eh??
btw.....rpmautosport, i do not suffer from inferior complexity. I plan in majoring in Chemical Engineering and I know for a fact that Harvard's engineering/science programs are not comparable to UC Berkeley's programs. I'm a student at Cal and I am paying half as less what I would've paid if I went to Harvard while still earning a marketable degree.</p>
<p>^^ planning to major in engineering. thats a big reason for harvard to reject you, cuz harvards not an engineering school. i have decent scores myself (1550/800/800/740/800/4.64wgpa) and i did some pretty good engineering research with a princeton professor over the summer. i applied early to harvard and was deferred and rejected (and after the deferral I changed my intended major from engineering to econ). harvard was simply a bad fit for me, and it looks like a bad fit for mosharma. the adcoms know what theyre doing. im not bitter, cuz princeton took me! (and actually if ur family's not rich, harvard is generous with finaid so you might have been paying the same amount as you are at Cal)</p>
<p>P.S. And because i havent yet heard from my dream school, Stanford, and in the spirit of the Big Game, i must say: CAL SUCKS!</p>
<p>Cal Sucks??? I guess not! We have beaten Stanfurd for the past 2 years and still own possession of the axe. Maybe the farm (stanfurd) couldn't deal with this humiliation and had to fire their head coach Buddy Teevens.</p>