i applied to harvard...my dream school...any chance?

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<p>SAT I: (750 CR, 800 Math, 770 Writing) Composite: 2320</p>

<p>SAT II: (800 Math II, 800 US History, 730 Literature) Composite: 2330</p>

<p>GPA: School doesn't rank but 3.70 unweighed, 4.0 weighed-took the hardest courses available</p>

<p>Male Asian applicant from East Georgia</p>

<p>ECs
4 year varsity Baseball (Captain) 3 year starter
4 years Basektball, 2 years junior varsity, 2 years varsity
1 year JV football
Semi-professional pianist- GISA two time state champion, 2nd Alternate and honorable mention for GMTA
4 years Math team- 2 time top 3 finisher at my school
150 hours of community service</p>

<p>Summers
West Point Summer Leaders Seminar
Harvard Summer School- did well</p>

<p>Essays: Best I've ever written- explores transcendentalism through my experiences of my life
Recommendations: great</p>

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<p>You look good but what do I know? Any feedback from your interviewer?</p>

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<p>he said i’d be a good match… but you never know</p>

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<p>woah. I’d say you have a pretty good chance of getting in! It was my dream school too, until i decided i wanted to major in IR, and they don’t offer that. :frowning:
Hope you get in. :)</p>

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<p>Your standardized testing scores are nearly one hundred points above average. Harvard may view your GPA as low although sports I do fully understand are very time-consuming.</p>

<p>Did you happen to be athletically recruited?</p>

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<p>There’s no point in doing Chance Me’s for Harvard</p>

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<p>you seem like a good match but with harvard you never know, hopefully your essay made you stand out! good luck:)</p>

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<p>I’m going to be harsh but real, you have the same chance as the 30,000+ other applicants. You never know! But I wish you luck!</p>

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<p>lol what Jaddua and Collegestress said are absolutely true. It doesn’t matter if you have a 4.8 W, 4.0 UW GPA and a 2400 with a bunch of ECs, and 4 year varsity starter for 3 sports. unless you have something that unequivocally sets you apart from other applicants (the aforementioned stats + went through brain surgery to remove cancer – which happened to a girl at a high school in my city. she got in.), you have just as much a chance as the other applicant. it’s teh same for HYPS. the lower tier ivies, dartmouth, columbia, cornell, brown etc are still reaches for most everybody as well.</p>

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<p>like you said , Harvard is your dream school, so yeah, you can only dream to go to Harvard.
(just kidding I give about 50%)</p>

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<p>i hope that by east georgia, you meant the former republic of the Soviet Union…
otherwise good chance, hope it goes all well for you</p>

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<p>and THAT is the truth.</p>

<p>honestly it really bugs me when kids with +2300 SAT scores title their chance threads, “DO I HAVE ANY CHANCE” It’s like, for crying out loud, go get laid.</p>

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<p>At the very least, please provide some constructive input or state your advice in more concrete terms.</p>

<p>The truth is that we really do not know the methods in which individual admissions committees work. In fact, college admissions, as we all know, is a very subjective practice despite the objective standards that we have in place. Since most of us are high school students, we truly know very little about an individual’s true chances.</p>

<p>But based on your standardized test scores and GPA alone (that is without judging subjective criteria), I would estimate that your chances are approximately 25%. Truly, the best perspective that any of us can have is a healthy degree of hope and confidence that we have put forth our greatest efforts into the application process.</p>

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<p>What?! I hope you’re not ■■■■■■■■ -what does this even mean?</p>

<p>As in american transcendentalism such as Thoreau? (anti-anthroprocentrism, connecting with nature etc?)</p>

<p>As in Sartre/de Beauvoir’s existentialism? Ala Transcendence of the Ego?</p>

<p>Frankly, this topic for a personal essay seems rather pretentious. </p>

<p>(No offence, it just comes accross that way).</p>

<p>eta: Also, agree with the ppl above me. What is the point of threads such as this? To brag? To show off scores? zzzzz…</p>

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<p>Harvard = Unpredictable.
I would say apply to some other Ivy’s as well…</p>