<p>lowellbelle : </p>
<p>Hi, I am a student who is going to be a freshman next year.
I am very interested in Harvard and it is like my dream school.
I wouldn’t want more if I could get into Harvard.</p>
<p>I want to know how you spent your time usefully and I wish to be a successful person like you later in my life.
I am very interested in Harvard and it is my biggest dream.
I wouldn’t want more if I could get into Harvard.</p>
<p>I’ll be looking for your replies!</p>
<p>Hi! I am a high school student and after I finish in high school, I will apply in harvard.Harvard is also my biggest dream.I go on do everything: Study hard or do many many things.I must get into harvard.
I am grade 10 and I do not have TOEFL or SAT.I intend when I am grade 11, I will study and do exam.
I think, we need join in many activities such as: charity.I usually suft on the internet to know information of harvard, into college confidental or vietabroader (because I am Vietnamese) to register many activities.Besides, I self-study at home for the TOEFL and SAT and look for material usefully.
I believe that one day, we can do it and get into Harvard.
If you want, we can make friends together and then you can contact to me: yahoo: kinsleynguyenngoc or email: kinsleynguyenngoc***********.vn.
love,</p>
<p>Hi I’m from saudi arabia ,I’m 17 years old and.</p>
<p>My dream is I want to get to harvard university , and If can help me I’ll be so grateful for you.</p>
<p>Also I get a high marks in high school and sat exam.</p>
<p>Please don’t forget me I’m waiting.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m from saudi arabia and I’m 17 years old.</p>
<p>My dream is I want to get to harvard university , and If can help me I’ll be so grateful for you.</p>
<p>Also I get a high marks in high school and sat exam.</p>
<p>Please don’t forget me I’m waiting.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m going into ninth grade this year and I was wondering what my GPA should be by the end of high school. Should I take all AP courses and risk not getting all A’s, or should I take 1 or 2 AP courses per year and be sure that I will get all A’s? I already have 2 years of Foreign languages and I will be taking 4 more years of another language in high school, I am also taking track after school, I will be in ROTC, plus Marching Band, and I do a lot of charity work and other academic “projects” during the summer, but I’m still confused about what GPA is required to have a CHANCE at getting into Harvard. In my high school, I’m not sure, but I believe that AP courses increase your overall GPA by 0.33, so should I risk getting all A’s in AP courses and having a chance of getting a 4.99 GPA, or should I take 1 or 2 AP courses every year and know that I will get a 4.33-4.66? Please help! School starts in less than 2 months and I want to know if I should change my schedule or not, so please reply as soon as you have the time. Thanks!</p>
<p>Take as many Ap classes as you can.</p>
<p>The colleges will be more interested in many AP classes over having a possible B.</p>
<p>" How does one publish one’s own book after writing it?
Self publishing?
Mailing it to editors? "</p>
<p>Why don’t research this, Harvard aspirant? </p>
<p>BTW: self-publishing is for those with money whose work can not get the notice of legitimate publishers.</p>
<p>hi, i’m in 8th grade and has been holding a 4.0 for since 5th grade. I get Presdients award each year in middle school so far, and a lot of other good rewards . Also I have all advanced classes,well except the ones you can’t get advanced in. Anyways, Your advice is very good and i take school very seriously and with all my heart, want to get into Harvard and get a degree in physics. So in high school, what classes should i take for the best chance of getting into Harvard. If you can reply ill be very happy.thank you.</p>
<p>I shouldn’t jump in here, but this topic has been a fascination of mine ever since I felt the sting of rejection from my first school of choice some 25 years ago, but here goes.</p>
<p>I have to defend everything lowellbelle says. It’s great advice and should be listened to by any parent or student interested in applying to Harvard. As a reader, you should appreciate why lowellbelle is emphasizing the nuances about the decision-making process and not the grades or SAT/ACT scores.</p>
<p>First off, some fundamentals: of the 34,302 applications received this year, Harvard accepted 2,032 – 5.9 percent. That’s the lowest acceptance rate among national universities in the United States. And that’s a pretty typical year for Harvard (6.2% in 2011, 6.9% in 2010, etc.). Of those 34k applicants, how many do you think had average grades or less? I’m sure there were a few “joke” applications – applications where the student knew they wouldn’t get it but wanted a rejection letter as a frame-able memento (lol), or some such – but I bet 99.9% were from well-intentioned, hard-working students with good grades. Good academic performance among the application pool is like the electricity at your house. You may have the lights on (good job!), but what does your house look like? What have you done with the landscaping, the light fixtures, the bathrooms, the kitchen, the basement, the garage and on and on. You know who’s passionate about their house in the 'hood and who just pays the bills on time.</p>
<p>I once read a story about an applicant who had a near-perfect SAT score and a 4.0 average (out of Groton, no less) and was rejected by Harvard. And that applicant was a minority! Harvard isn’t looking for students who check the box and feel satisfied. They want someone who doesn’t notice the time going by as they immerse themselves in a topic or discipline. As lowellbelle points out, an AP course could have been taken, but it wasn’t a passion, and it would have taken a spot from someone else and time away from true passions. </p>
<p>Also, lowellbelle alludes to the right attitude about all of this. If you are a serious candidate (as I’m sure those 34,000 were), a rejection should not be taken as a statement about your abilities. I bet the admission department at Harvard could throw a dart at a wall of applications and do fairly well. It’s about fit. I’ve heard of students getting rejected by UVA (a school that is very concerned about motivation and indoctrination) but getting into Harvard. </p>
<p>So, in lowellbelle’s defense, grades and SAT scores are not the elements that will differentiate you as a candidate. They’re viewed as a “price of admission” item qualifying you to give it a go. Just to be really, really clear about this, if you have average or poor grades, don’t apply to Harvard (lol)!</p>
<p>I shouldn’t jump in here, but this topic has been a fascination of mine ever since I felt the sting of rejection from my first school of choice some 25 years ago, but here goes.</p>
<p>I have to defend everything lowellbelle says. It’s great advice and should be listened to by any parent or student interested in applying to Harvard. As a reader, you should appreciate why lowellbelle is emphasizing the nuances about the decision-making process and not the grades or SAT/ACT scores.</p>
<p>First off, some fundamentals: of the 34,302 applications received this year, Harvard accepted 2,032 – 5.9 percent. That’s the lowest acceptance rate among national universities in the United States. And that’s a pretty typical year for Harvard (6.2% in 2011, 6.9% in 2010, etc.). Of those 34k applicants, how many do you think had average grades or less? I’m sure there were a few “joke” applications – applications where the student knew they wouldn’t get it but wanted a rejection letter as a frame-able memento (lol), or some such – but I bet 99.9% were from well-intentioned, hard-working students with good grades. Good academic performance among the application pool is like the electricity at your house. You may have the lights on (good job!), but what does your house look like? What have you done with the landscaping, the light fixtures, the bathrooms, the kitchen, the basement, the garage and on and on. You know who’s passionate about their house in the 'hood and who just pays the bills on time.</p>
<p>I once read a story about an applicant who had a near-perfect SAT score and a 4.0 average (out of Groton, no less) and was rejected by Harvard. And that applicant was a minority! Harvard isn’t looking for students who check the box and feel satisfied. They want someone who doesn’t notice the time going by as they immerse themselves in a topic or discipline. As lowellbelle points out, an AP course could have been taken, but it wasn’t a passion, and it would have taken a spot from someone else and time away from true passions.</p>
<p>Also, lowellbelle alludes to the right attitude about all of this. If you are a serious candidate (as I’m sure those 34,000 were), a rejection should not be taken as a statement about your abilities. I bet the admission department at Harvard could throw a dart at a wall of applications and do fairly well. It’s about fit. I’ve heard of students getting rejected by UVA (a school that is very concerned about motivation and indoctrination) but getting into Harvard.</p>
<p>So, in lowellbelle’s defense, grades and SAT scores are not the elements that will differentiate you as a candidate. They’re viewed as a “price of admission” item qualifying you to give it a go. Just to be really, really clear about this, if you have average or poor grades, don’t apply to Harvard (lol)!</p>
<p>Hi
I would like to know what chances i have of getting to an ivy league college if I wrote my sats at 1510 but my high school grades aren’t that good. I’m a student from outside the US and basically I want to know if medicore grades in high school cross you out of the admissions.
Thanks</p>
<p>The average SATs for international acceptees is above 2000.</p>
<p>International applicants face the biggest competition due to quotas.</p>
<p>You have mediocre HS grades. Therefore, even in your own HS, you are “middle of the pack” academically and dozens of students around you have performed better.</p>
<p>Now you want to know your chances at a set of colleges with roughly single digit admissions rates.</p>
<p>And you wish to know if your performance eliminates your chances. What do you think?</p>
<p>I got 1510 from my 2 subject tests not from SAT I. The question is : Do bad grades disqualify from better colleges. I have several distinctions from academic competitions and I was a finalist in a country wide competition. My GPA is 3.3</p>
<p>"Do bad grades disqualify from better colleges. " Generally yes. For Harvard, almost definitely.</p>
<p>So what GPA doesn’t disqualify? I haven’t yet finished High School so for me it’s not a closed case.</p>
<p>The GPA distribution of the most recent freshman class can be found in question C11 of the common data set. [The</a> Office of the Provost | Common Data Set](<a href=“http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/common_data_set.php]The”>http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/common_data_set.php)</p>
<p>Note that less than 4% of the class had GPAs below 3.5 and to be part of that population you must offer something pretty unique to compensate for this shortfall.</p>
<p>snow: your line of questions is something else. H rejects tens of thousands of 4.0 and 3.9 students every year. Go ahead and apply with your 3.4 or 3.6 eventual GPA if you’re of the mind to do so. But if you want an honest answer, then even if you go in with a 3.6, barring anything spectacular that cltdad alludes to, you’re wasting your application fee.</p>
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<p>I also noticed that over 90% had GPAs over 3.75. However, nobody graduates with above a 4.75/ 5.00 in our community, does that mean nobody from our neighborhood can get in? Also, I noticed that Harvard says it does not consider class rank. Does that say anything about people who think of GPA as a proxy for class rank? I am wondering if it really helps anyone to isolate these factors and then tell people they should not apply if their GPA is below a 3.5 etc?</p>
<p>According to Harvard it treats GPA, SAT, extracuricullar activities etc equally. However only the commissions knows what is more or less valuable.</p>
<p>And what’s your point? The international applicant admit rate is less than 6%. In a room of 100 applicants, four or five get an acceptance. Do you think any of those four or five have “mediocre” GAP, SAT or extracurricular activities?</p>
<p>The title: “Most selective college in the United states” is not just a phrase. It’s based on actual numbers.</p>