<p>Hahaha xingxingme, nah, I’m not bored with it, I just don’t check it very often. Also, lowellbelle is no longer in Lowell, having graduated (literally) to the “real world”…</p>
<p>The only thing I wish is that this thread hadn’t devolved into yet another “let me list my stats and you can tell me my ‘chances’” discussion. I understand why people would want to post those, but again, it’s not all about scores etc., at least as far as I can tell (I was a recruiter this spring for the admissions office and met all sorts of interesting kids).</p>
<p>The thing is, one thing that I can tell you (having both gone to Harvard and worked for a short while as a student recruiter–I do NOT have official decision-making capability, by the way!) is that Harvard DOES NOT look at schools in comparison to other schools. Therefore, asking “what are my chances?” is only relevant if you’re thinking about your own school. As I said (long before I knew for sure that this was the process Harvard generally follows), think of your accomplishments in terms of YOUR OWN school/city/possibilities/etc. If you can go outside <em>that</em> framework and accomplish something amazing, Harvard will definitely look at that as something worth considering. </p>
<p>For example, in high school I took 9 classes per semester, but I went to a fairly easy high school until senior year, so the extra work was really more about honing my musical abilities/repertoire/etc. My senior year, my high school was much more difficult, so taking 2 APs plus doing lessons plus a job plus living on my own took on a whole different meaning. </p>
<p>Again, please, PLEASE keep in mind that you have to think about your situation IN CONTEXT. That’s a huge mistake that I see a lot of kids make on this site, and they get really discouraged because of it. Harvard is about self-motivated people who go far beyond the norm (or the necessary) to do things they care about. I wrote the first post of this thread as a sophomore. I now have my Harvard degree, and I have a very different perspective on what it means to get into Harvard, attend school there, and finally leave. Scores mean very little if you don’t have the right perspective and the right way of going about things. </p>
<p>sunnyvinny, I will answer your question briefly–I think doing a CD because you want to is a great idea, especially if, for example, you compose some of the music yourself.</p>
<p>Hope that helps, all…also, forgive me if I don’t respond to messages. I literally log in about every four months, and am thus probably not the best person to ask for resume help etc…</p>