<p>i meant standard for us okay? obviously we all stand out in our highschools or else we wouldnt be applying to harvard</p>
<p>haha mellow out dude...no hard feelings, k?</p>
<p>ok, so the last time i asked for chances, a debate was sparked. i will be applying RD, and I think my counselor just screwed some papers up. Anyway, I want to know if I have any sort of chance. If I don't get in, i will pry go to U of Chicago, which is a great school, but havahd is betta!</p>
<p>at my school, if you dress in your gym clothes and <em>try</em>, you get an A for the quarter. The class is still a big pain in the ass. I wish they made varsity team participation gym credit. I'm sure everyone would be flocking to the teams.</p>
<p>anyway, I'm sure you have a chance. although 1) your numbers don't add up - you work 15 hours a week and join a band for 40 hours a week (DO YOU SLEEP??) and 2) your dad graduated from Stanford, so you don't have ANY disadvantages except that your from an underrepresented state :</p>
<p>Well, yes and no. Well, here it is. For 3 months, yes I do cut back on work, and yes, I have been my senior year, but with pay stubs and perhour pay, i can prove that I work 15 hours a week, (more in the summer, less in the fall) You gotta understand that marching band is a cult. 25 hours a week plus 24 weekend competions. thank goodness that only lasts 20 weeks. To be conservative, I have been putting 35. </p>
<p>Disadvantaged? School sucks. but yes, my dad went to Stanford and is still the smartest man I know. this is an advatage, but there are no universities or anything nearby. I got into U of Chicago and my counselor was freaking out cuz that is the best school anyone has gotten into in our school in MANY years! i suppose I just feel disadvantaged to see so many people with 10 AP's. We have only 3/4. Not the greatest teachers either. I should be more thankful for what I got.</p>
<p>Does Harvard check to see if you have contacted their school, ie visits, info sessions, emails, etc. I have not, cuz I am dumb and parents don't feel like taking me to Boston for a school with a 10% acceptance rate. I do know that Stanford DOES NOT check such things.</p>
<p>Jerew-No, Harvard doesn't track interest. Since their yield rate is so high, they can assume that if you get in, you'll most likely enroll. The colleges that do track interest tend to be smaller (LACs for example). However, the exception might be if you turn down an interview.</p>
<p>You're so asian</p>
<p>Moderated a debate for school board candidates = ? just one...</p>
<p>Why are we still obsessing about high school ranks?</p>
<p>It's OVER! Everything is over! Now we just relax and wait until April 1. Who cares about HS anymore?! NO MORE DRAMA! No more, who's going to Winterformal, Prom, Homecoming? BLAH BLAH BLAH!</p>
<p>EEK! I'm excited to get out of my high school world. Don't get me wrong, I lover HS, but I just have to move on with my life. </p>
<p>Man, I thought I was crazy. EVERYONE on this board is an OBSESSIVE CRAZY MANIAC! HAHAHA, I hope I get into Harvard. Then I can meet all of you weirdos! woohoo. </p>
<p>April 1!!! How many more days?</p>
<p>"Moderated a debate for school board candidates = ? just one..."</p>
<p>I don't get it!?</p>
<p>Yeah... our school doesn't count gym as part of valedictorian GPA. It's part of your actual GPA (though I don't have to take it, I'm in marching band too), but when they're calculating rank, they only include the core classes.</p>
<p>our school's gpa system is so messed up... gym isn't weighted, which screws over the ppl who don't know how to get out of it (you can take it through the alternative school in our district pass/fail, so it doesn't count towards your gpa). then there was the huge problem that earth science, bio, and chem were unweighted, so the kids that took both earth science and bio in 9th grade were screwed in comparison to those who took just bio. as of last year they decided to change it, which messed it up for the kids in my class who took chem a year early (they wouldn't count it as weighted for us, b/c they "cover different material" now that it's weighted). there is also a problem w/ foreign languages in that levels 1-3 are unweighted. really, they just need to do away with everything that doesn't count toward graduation in gpa, so people stop trying to avoid getting unweighted grades.</p>
<p>at our school everyone is expected to take at least 4 APs in their first year of high school
so there are a lot of strange cases in the world and harvard has probably seen it all
i would doubt they would be surprised by a junior taking Physics B...
but enough about the physics AP..your chances?
nice ECs, might want to consider taking Writing again..you have a good chance
try Stanford too (as I'm sure you've already considered) since you're a legacy</p>
<p>Thanks, yeah I wish I could take the Writing test again. I have a jazz band competition that day.</p>
<p>Where is your jazz band competition? UW-L jazzfest by any chance? (Thats where I will be)</p>
<p>Mason City Iowa</p>