<p>Basically, I just desire to know how many hours do you study in a day?
Sorry to not post in the ideal forum.</p>
<p>Sincerely,
Mike.</p>
<p>To get in? As many as you need to get the highest GPA you can while leaving space for the best extracurriculars you can, and some sleep. And social life. If you need 15 hours a day of studying to get grades high enough to be competitive to go here, though, do yourself a favor and go elsewhere. That’s just miserable, and if you have that kind of drive, you’ll be able to ace somewhere else.</p>
<p>Exultationsy described it really well.</p>
<p>You must have both the highest GPA, the most extremely rigorous course, and a nice amount of ECs (sleep included).</p>
<p>If you can’t deal with this, then this university is probably not for you.</p>
<p>Yeah I third that.</p>
<p>It also may very much depend on the rigor of your school. My high school was quite challenging, such that sometimes I think the workload was tougher (in terms of quantity at least) than Harvard’s. Some of my friends went to less rigorous high schools and although they took advantage of all the opportunities available to them and more, it would have been absurd for them to spend more than two hours doing work a night.</p>
<p>I literally had less than an hour of homework every night in high school. Then again, my high school was terrible. </p>
<p>Here at Harvard, I’m doing probably 3-4-5-6 hours a night when I have class (and little homework the three nights a week I don’t have anything to hand in the next day). It was a surprisingly simple transition the first semester, and since then it’s just become normal. It may just be my situation, but the fact that I did very little homework in high school has really not had any bearing on my academic success here.</p>