<p>I am a native american female living in California. My goal is to get into Harvard. I have a 4.0 weighted G.P.A., and unweighted, i have a 3.7. I really screwed up on my SAT's and got a 1950. I take some AP's, and got a 5 in AP european history, and a 4 in AP French. I am also involved in some Charity organizations catering to poor Indians. PLease give me your input.</p>
<p>when do you want to enroll at harvard? this year or next?</p>
<p>Next year. ///</p>
<p>Your definitely can go to an ivy if thats where you want to go, but realisticcally</p>
<p>Harvard is only going to accept the top 40 or so Native Americans IN THE COUNTRY.</p>
<p>chances are your not one of them. </p>
<p>Harvard is a reach (but i wouldnt be chocked if you were accepted)</p>
<p>Take your SATs again, take more APs next year. I think you could get in.</p>
<p>you can drop out of high school right now and still get into harvard with the 1950 this year, next year or the year after.</p>
<p>are you a full blood or something? i think that would make a difference</p>
<p>Being a native american is not a free pass. It'll help, sure, but being a native american, having a 4.0 GPA, and an SAT score of 2100+ would be nearly golden. Sendtherain is right. Do some intense SAT preparation. Take the SATs again with the objective of getting over 2100. Take some more APs and do well. Keep your GPA up. HYPS etc. would love to admit you, but you've get to make them feel comfortable that you can handle the work. And when you apply next year, make sure you include some matches and a safety or two. No matter how good you are, nothing is guarenteed with these schools.</p>
<p>any ECs besides the charities? one or two more wouldn't hurt.</p>
<p>Get that SAT score up a bit (consider taking the ACT), and your chances would improve dramatically. Also consider applying to Dartmouth- it's probably a better school for undergrad, and they recruit NA's heavily (3% of the student population).</p>
<p>not only will being native american with a 1900 get you into harvard, but it will even get you a tour of willy wonka's factory. you're in at both places...easy!</p>
<p>Being a Native American is not a free pass, no matter what uninformed people may tell you here.</p>
<p>Harvard also does not have a quota on Native Americans, which is what someone here erroneously suggested. </p>
<p>My advice is to study for the SATs, including using review books, the College Board site, and tutoring, if you can afford it. Also take the ACTs, and continue to take APs.</p>
<p>Right now your SATs are low for people of all races who get accepted to places like Harvard. You still, however, have time to raise your scores.</p>
<p>From what you describe, your ECs also are weak for a place like Harvard. It's important to not only participate in some ECs (preferably about 2-3 strong ECs), it's also important to demonstrate leadership (not just by having a title, but by having impact -- creating and organizing projects, for example).</p>
<p>If you are doing other things that you haven't mentioned such as working a job or helping take care of siblings, those also would count as ECs.</p>
<p>If you're in a low performing school or live on a reservation, these things also would be taken into consideration.</p>
<p>If you're interested in going to a top tier college, you also might want to consider applying to Wesleyan, Cornell, and Brown, all of which have long histories of strong outreach to Native Americans. The book, "The Gatekeepers" provides interesting info about Wesleyan's admissions process including about a situation regarding a Native American from Minn.</p>
<p>The greatest advantage for you would be at Dartmouth because the school was originally intentioned for educating native americans (it's also implied that they give preferential treatment though i don't think it's officially stated on the website).</p>
<p>yes, read the gatekeepers and see how wes drooled for the two native americans. i'm not sure those two were actually literate. so you can choose to believe people who are jealous of the hook being a urm can provide or you can believe me and start planning for cold boston winters. also, i would probably guess that your 1900 would put you in the top 1% of all native americans taking the test. of course it would be good to score as high as you could on the sats, but what kind of stupid advice is that, but based upon what you already have, auto accept</p>
<p>I am Native American and I live in Durham, and I too know that colleges are looking for natives in order to diversify their campuses. More power to you and I do think that you have a VERY good chance of getting into any campus you'd like to.</p>
<p>when i said stupid advice, i meant stupid useless obvious advice. emphasis on obvious</p>
<p>BlacknBlue, maybe someone forgot to call your advice rediculously obvious.</p>
<p>"I am a native american." Ahh, the greatest affirmation known to CC.</p>
<p>ass_scottmaynor: i don't recall giving anyone any advice...up until now. you better learn to spell, you need to get more than a 400 on the writing section of the sat to be on the same level as agattack. spelling counts native american or not.</p>
<p>"yes, read the gatekeepers and see how wes drooled for the two native americans. i'm not sure those two were actually literate. "</p>
<p>Your comments are incredibly racist as well as false.</p>
<p>The Native American who ended up going to Wesleyan was so illiterate that he ended up getting a Disney fellowship to learn screenwriting. (You can verify this by plugging his name into Google). According to the Gatekeepers, his father also had gone to Harvard. His mother is president of an Indian college (You also can verify this through Google). Sure, there's lots of evidence to support your thinking that he's "not actually literate." [I am being sarcastic.]</p>
<p>I also have met him, and can personally verify that he is a very bright, articulate young man.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, I know a Native American who had a 760 math (but, unfortunately only a 3.1 or so gpa), some national awards in math, who was rejected by Harvard (accepted, however, by Dartmouth). Being Native American is NOT a free pass to any college one wants to go to.</p>
<p>However, if you raise your scores, your being Native American would give you better than average chances of being accepted to a place like Harvard.</p>
<p>I hope that you follow my advice (I am an alum interviewer for Harvard BTW) and not the advice of uninformed students.</p>