<p>If it were just a question of whether to apply, I would encourage it. You can’t get in if you don’t try. But you are talking about waiting an entire year on the chance of getting accepted, and you seem to have an unrealistic idea of your chances. It’s not that your achievement is bad, it sounds great. And I agree that it will help you stand out from all the STEM applicants. I hope that is true since my next child is also a writer. I wouldn’t be surprised if you have several times greater chance of being admitted than the typical outstanding foreign stem applicant. What that might be, I don’t know, but I would guess closer to 20% than 100%. Is it good enough to put your life on hold for a year if you’re likely to be disappointed?</p>
<p>You also haven’t addressed why your grades are so low. Does that mean you won’t have good letters from your teachers?</p>
<p>You also haven’t addressed what Harvard offers you. Do they have a creative writing program? I think I was told they do not have that major. Why do you want to go there?</p>
<p>I might be misunderstanding your first post, but it sounds like you have been accepted to some schools and are planning to defer them for a year? You cannot apply to other schools during a deferral year, and if you do, the school you deferred from will rescind your acceptance, and if you are rejected from Harvard (which you will more likely than not be), you will be left with nothing this time next year</p>
<p>I cannot understand how you are saying your book will sell millions when it hasn’t even been published yet. You can’t just say on your application that you expect your book to sell millions. If it hasn’t sold millions by the time your application is reviewed then it hasn’t.</p>
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You see CC as your cheering section? Your posts reek of self-absorption. If I were an adcom at Directional State U I’d decline your application. You need to ask yourself what you can give rather than take, and identify schools that match with what you have to give, rather than trying to bag some prize.</p>
<p>One other point of concern is that while you may be a wonderful writer in your native language, your English writing is not very fluent. I don’t know how top schools look upon that. </p>