How To Get Into Harvard (by a Harvard student)

<p>I have look over it, but the requirements seem so much more tough than Harvard, or so I percieved.Thus I just never really consider it, but if it’s somehow has a better chance than why not?</p>

<p>I was making a joke based on the whole Yale/Harvard rivalry, but I guess it wasn’t that obvious.
Have you considered taking a gap year and applying next year?</p>

<p>“all i need is to get a way in”</p>

<p>“I really really need to get in Harvard, or I feel like my world is collapsing.”</p>

<p>Drathic: your desire to get to Harvard college for someone who is ill – and yet your academic profile sets you at as an extremely unlikely candidate is going to set you up for failure. Frankly, H or Y do not admit people who want to attend because it’s an achievement or a point of accomplishment to make others proud.</p>

<p>I’m sorry you’ve come to think that. May I suggest you get some in-depth counseling time with someone trusted in order to re-evaluate your unrealistic and frankly, unhealthy goals?</p>

<p>Your test scores make it a practical impossibility. And interviews are of the tiniest factor. You should re-focus on the best school list possible. Have an appt with your guid counselor to establish a set of schools previous seniors have applied to with similar stats/accomplishments as you. Harvard or Yale should not be on that list whatsoever.</p>

<p>it’s okay really. I’ve come down a bit now from that emotional charade. Well, yes, I am more than well aware of my situation. However, it may sounds corny, but I have hopes. I assures you, I do not count on the fact that they will take pity for my motives. I do have some, though not a lot, of other accomplishments that could take to consideration. My tests scores are most unfavorable, I am well aware, however, I do not believe that my test scores reflect the full compacity of my intellect. I have worked hard for the last few years, and I feel like I deserve to go to the best school in the world. I appreciate your concern about my mentality, yet rest assure that I am not as much of an invalid as you might imagined.</p>

<p>“I do not believe that my test scores reflect the full compacity of my intellect” </p>

<p>Likely true. But when H receives thousands upon thousands of students w/top scores – and they have limited spots – you can see why it’s a high probability that you may get overlooked – right?</p>

<p>“I have worked hard for the last few years, and I feel like I deserve to go to the best school in the world.”</p>

<p>First point: good you worked hard. Congrats. Second point: what you feel you deserve has no relation with reality. Do you honestly feel the other 30,000 applicants who are applying don’t feel they’ve worked hard?</p>

<p>I appreciate your desire to go to Harvard but your feeling you deserve it due to your recent years’ work is simply off base and appears to be blind hubris. </p>

<p>Please look at this thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1305027-official-harvard-university-2016-rd-results.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1305027-official-harvard-university-2016-rd-results.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Nonetheless, you’ve accomplished a good amount and should have a solid collegiate career. Best of luck to you on your college applications.</p>

<p>Hi, i’m from Brazil and as most people here… I want to get into Harvard. But I think my case is a bit different from most guys here: I already ended my school years, for more than a year, and just did the ENEM (brazilian SAT) and was accepted in a brazilian university. I had very good grades in maybe my first 7 years in school, gained prizes for best student of the bimester four times in a row, had maximum grades in my first two or three years of school… But it didn’t last. As I grew up, depression struck me and I started to lose motivation in everything and couldn’t archive perfect grades anymore, and it got worst until my last school year ended. Now im almost totally recovered from this (and many other) problem(s) and i’m able to get any grade I want.</p>

<p>Now the question: I want to know if you guys think i’m able to be accepted in Harvard if I archive very good grades in my university in Brazil, have lot’s of extracurricular activities and all those stuff and, obviously, have a good grade in the SAT.</p>

<p>Lowellbelle- Hi. I have high hopes and expectations for the future, probably going into medicine, and am looking at Ivy League colleges like Harvard. I’m not sure how much you would know about this, but I’m leaving for a year (my junior year) to live in Germany as an exchange student. I have a GPA of 4.28, and although I get credit for the year away, it doesn’t factor into my GPA. Would this help or deplete my chances of getting into extremely prestigious schools? </p>

<p>Thanks- Lookingforward96</p>

<p>I agree with poetgrl.</p>

<p>I agree with poetgrl, too.</p>

<p>I confess that I agree with poetgrl too.</p>

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<p>+1</p>

<p>10char</p>

<p>hi i’m planning to apply to harvard and i want to have your idea about something :
firstofall , i want to know if the grades of high school are more important than the sat ??
if i finished my final big exam of the final year of high school ( we said baccalaureat in my coutry tunisia) do i have to send all marks of high school years of just the final exam ? i passed the sat i had 1800 and 1400 in two subjects sat besides i play musci i am a guitarist and a good athlete in rowing i did rank 12 in the world rowing junior championships moreover the extra activities would you think that i have a chance to be accepted ??
thank you :D</p>

<p>metallica4row, for what school year are you considering applying?</p>

<p>i will apply to universities including rowing for men and engineer but in my list universities of the ivy league are my first goal so what do you about my chances to get into there ? and i want also know if the marks of high school are important as the SAT ?? thank you</p>

<p>If you truly are a world class rower, you should contact the respective coaches of each of your target schools and see what sort of documentation they will require in order to endorse your application. Examples would be ERG times, and your physical characteristics (height, weight). Of course, you are too late for September 2013 admissions. You’ll have to apply to enter in Sept 2014.</p>

<p>Your likely only shot into these types of schools is as a recruited athlete. You might want to repost here</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/athletic-recruits/[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/athletic-recruits/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>thnk you so much and if anybody has another answer it will be a pleasure to me :)</p>

<p>Metallica: to be frank, your 1800 SAT and your lack of knowledge of the admissions requirements and deadlines is of grave concern when it comes to applying to colleges such as Harvard. Like I said, you are not eligible for Sept 2013 admissions. If you truly wish to row at an American university, you need to maintain your athleticism during this off year.</p>

<p>Hi!!I graduated from high school at 14 with a lot of A’s and few B’s.however I chose to take two years off in order to get mature enough for university.I would love to attend harvard.I have my heart set on environmental studies so I took geography in my last three years of high school.i’m very passionate about nature and conservation…before I arrived at a final decision for my future major,I worked at differrent places tto gain knowledge about different fields…I have over a dozen recommendation letters from all the places I’ve worked at…my school doesn’t have GP or class ranks,my standardized tests are near perfect…i’m a well rounded student…with science math and art courses at high school.I spend my free time volunteering at my country’s ministry of environment and an NGO concerned with improving Africa. I understand that my scores are not all it takes to get into harvard. I’m just wondering If the department of environmental studies has a lot of competition like engineering.thanks…Harvard students past and present only please.</p>

<p>Harvard doesn’t admit by major. All departments have enormous competition because Harvard admissions is enormously competitive.</p>

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