<p>I am Mohammed Mudather, I was born on October 18th, 2000. I'm in 11th grade, I know this might seem weird but I skipped a couple grades. Like I learned the curriculum of 7th and 8th in one summer, with the help of the internet. I don't really mind being younger than everyone in my school. I get along perfectly. I want to become a genetic engineer. I'm currently living in Khartoum, Sudan. I was born in Charlotte, NC. Both my parents were born in Khartoum, and came to America in the late 1990's. I came to Sudan in late 2012. Quid pro quo I'm coming back to America in April to finish high-school and hopefully get accepted into Harvard university. My dad in America used to work as a taxi driver and my mom used to work in a bank. I am fluent in English, and Arabic, also I'm learning french. I love all cultures and I like to be divine. I can play the cello. I program too, I know c++ and python. I took a couple online courses on accounting and finance. I love math and physics. On my last monthly exams I scored a little over a 3.9 gpa, but I'm sure I can do better and I scored better the one before. I just need a little encouragement and I'm sure I'll find it in the Harvard community. I want to work up to a phd in my field and then continue research. I do see my self as a anomaly and avant garde but I embrace it. I'm part of a really small minority of Muslim Sudanese-Americans. My life is non sequitur and I don't expect it to be. I always wanted to go to Harvard since I was a kid. So excusing the red herring, what will be the chances of me getting into Harvard and chance of getting financial aid. What other colleges should I consider and what fields should I work on.
I'll be hoping to get feedback from you.</p>
<p>Harvard has one of the best financial aid policies in the US so if you manage to get in you will receive financial aid.
I suggest that next year you do 11th grade again, since anyway it’ll be “11th grade in the US”, so different from your current 11th grade. It’ll give you time to prepare for college, since college admissions look at 11th grade in particular; It’ll give you time to prepare for the ACT, SAT Reasoning, SAT Subjects. Yo’ull need to take these tests, probably several times, to get a high score. You’ll be able to take AP classes. In addition, if your goal is Harvard, you need to be the best at something. Choose what and then pursue that passion. Not “I code a little” but “I won the …Coding competion”. Not “I play the cello” but “I am a recorded artist in a quartet”.
As of now, if you move straight into the 12th grade, your odds of getting Harvard are close to zero.
Finally, creating a college list takes some time. You could start by reading a guide (Fiske Guide, Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, Princeton Review’s best colleges), placing a postmark next to each school, then figuring out what they have in common.
Start with the list of the highly to very selective colleges that meet 100% need since you’re very low income.
<a href=“Colleges with Need-Blind Admission for U.S. Students”>Colleges with Need-Blind Admission for U.S. Students;
From there, create a list with as many colleges as you wish (for now, don’t limit yourself) including at least 2 safeties (schools you like, can afford, have a 40-50+% admit rate, and where you’re in the top 10% admitted students for stats); at least 5 matches (schools you like, can afford, have a 30-45% admit rate, where you’re around the top 25% applicants and well above the average). Then you can add as many reaches as you wish or can afford, including Harvard. Once you have that list, you can post here again to winnow things down.</p>
<p>Ok thank you very much, and I was thinking of doing a internship to get some ap credits, what do you think?</p>
<p>internships are good and will be appreciated by selective colleges, but they’re not the same as AP classes/credits. If by ap credit you don’t mean AP but something else, please explain.
Once again, you not only have to do something, but be the best at it.
Since you’re only 14, I assume the number of interesting internships must be limited, though.
Since you skipped grades, you could invest your time into finding a university where you could assist, for instance, or perhaps see if next year you could take dual enrollment classes as an 11th grader (then as a 12th grader). </p>