<p>HELLO,
I REALLY WANT TO GET INTO HARVARD. RIGHT NOW I AM ENTERING HIGH SCHOOL, AND AM WONDERING WHAT ARE SOME THINGS I COULD DO THAT WOULD MAKE ME STAND OUT OF THE ORDINARY AND GET INTO HARVARD? I AM WILLING TO WORK REALLY HARD TO GET IN. ALSO IF ANY OF YOU GOT INTO HARVARD CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID, OR MAYBE CAN I SEE YOUR COLLEGE RESUME. MY EMAIL IS <a href="mailto:RSSHAH2002@GMAIL.COM">RSSHAH2002@GMAIL.COM</a> IF YOU WANT TO SEND ANYTHING. </p>
<p>THANKS</p>
<p>First off, it’s rude to type just in caps, unless you want to “shout” at someone. Secondly, please read this thread located at the top of the Harvard forum in its entirety. Then, if you have a specific question, ask again: <a href=“Chance Threads - PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING ONE - Harvard University - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1420290-chance-threads-please-read-before-posting-one-p1.html</a></p>
<p>Sorry for that… i am really sorry. Yes, I do have another question. Are the chances of being accepted more if I take ap courses? </p>
<p>Here are my stats that got me not only into their undergrad school but also guaranteed admission into Harvard medical school right after undergrad. Copy my stats and you should be gold.</p>
<p>SAT 1: 1320
SAT: 560 Bio M, 430 Math 2, 290 Chem
ACT: 18
Clubs: President of the Moron Club
Sports: Football team ( water boy)</p>
<p>Friend: why don’ t you start ninth grade first? Or read gibby’s post or read SOMETHING on the Harvard website? your questions are so out of reality it’s head shaking.</p>
<p>Just go into high school knowing that you can’t slack off, but while caring about your own growth rather than some far off goal in the 9th grade.</p>
<pre><code> You got to do something different than anyone else, for example look at myself. I’m entering sophomore year of HS with a 2.6 GPA, and the exact same dream as you. Everyone tells me that there is no way that I am ever heading to Harvard, and I did research and that is true, as just about everyone has that 4.0 GPA and those 2400 SAT and the fact that they spent 3 years in hours doing community service. I can’t win, their skills are better than mine. But then I realized that I have been playing a sport for a long time, and I love what I do, and then it clicked. How many of these ‘perfect’ applicants can do the skills that I can? Not many, and thus working on my skill and raising my GPA to an acceptable range, I am working towards my goal.
Friend, find something that NO ONE or at least very few can do, one that you love and are happy doing, and use that skill to get you in. Everyone here will tell you that you can’t because right now they think you are doing what everyone else will do, cram AP, be the best student etc. Truth is everyone does that, and you WON’T win. So look into your heart, find what you were born to do, and do it so well they will be smashing your door in begging for you to go to their school 
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<p>My calling is sports and a desire to change the world, what’s yours?</p>
<p>You will get in,</p>
<p>Paul</p>
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I’ve been trying to avoid this thread, which reads like satire with the blind leading the blind, but I can’t help myself. The short truth is that doing things with the express purpose of getting into elite school X almost always gives the opposite result. H doesn’t want students who follow the dots, and the adcoms can sniff them out.</p>
<p>^, which is why I am trying to tell the top the exact same advice. I remember the day when I first heard the do something unique advice, I laughed then, I embrace it now. It may look like I’m trying to lead the op to do predictable things, the truth is the only way do get in is to do something that you love, and do it well. Harvard says on it’s website that it wants people who will change the world, and be leaders in their field. OP may be excellent in sports, music, research, or something that we never even heard about, if he embraces his/herself, and does that one thing that he loves very well, he will get in.</p>
<p>@Paul13375: Can you give me this week’s powerball numbers? Your confidence is hair raising. You’re saying an incoming 9th grader “will get into” Harvard.</p>
<p>Any logical arguments and support statements you make and credibility you have are completely cast aside by that sweeping (and completely unsupportable) statement. If you said that about a top HS senior, with a 2300 SAT, 4.0 GPA and good ECs, I’d have the same opinion of your grandiose statements. </p>
<p>I know that elsewhere, you’re trying to ascertain your own chances, possibly through athletics. You do yourself no favors nor cast yourself in any good light when you foist fantasy as truth.</p>
<pre><code> I’m boosting the op’s confidence, my apologizes for the confusion. Nothing is ever 100 percent unless you REALLY work at it, however it can come very close with a right mixture of confidence and hard work. I’m trying to give reinforcing advice, as most ‘advice’ that I get from my teachers and people is bro you are not going to get in. My point is that if OP finds a unique niche, he can use that niche to rise himself above the other applicants and get in, as that’s the only logical plan that most people have (correct if I’m wrong). I unfortunately cannot give you this weeks Powerball numbers, because if I can do that every single lottery, I would have no use for Harvard or any education for that matter :D. Yes my confidence is hair raising (sorry just mentality that you develop if you seriously want to win a game, or accomplish anything significant, as it takes a sort of belief in order to set the mind right).
I will agree that fantasy is predicting this week’s Powerball numbers, however saying that he will get in, provided that he does something that none of us could possibly imagine (unique niche), is less of an fantasy. It seems that the more negative advice that someone get’s, and the longer he/she withstands this advice, the more successful the person becomes, hell maybe all this negative criticism is actually designed to make you succeed, who knows. All I know is if your ‘crazy’ enough to believe that you can get in, or change the world as Steve Jobs puts it, there is a good chance that this will become a reality.
If you wish to continue this debate, then by all means continue, I love them :D.
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<p>@Paul13375 You’ve got the right attitude. It may or may not get you into Harvard but it will serve you well, wherever you end up.</p>
<p>The best way to get into Harvard is to stop thinking about it for a few years and follow your interests in the present.</p>
<p>It is really troubling when high schoolers get fixated on one school. Have you visited? Do you know anything about it? Is it for the prestige alone?</p>
<p>Don’t live your life with Harvard as a goal, please, it leads to bad things. You may or may not get in when you do get around to applying but if you do, it really is about being there, not getting in. </p>
<p>Why go to Harvard when you can go to Arizona State</p>
<p>Hey buddy I think you’re approaching this from the wrong angle. Like what everyone else has said, you shouldn’t live the next four years of you’re life for Harvard. It fosters pride, and arrogance, and you might even end up like this kid <a href=“Harvard student's guide to Harvard University - YouTube”>Harvard student's guide to Harvard University - YouTube; (video’s a joke) . You should want to go there for the intellectual culture and the opportunities available. If you want to go there for these reasons or reasons like them, then take challenging classes, pursue your passions and give back to your local community. But don’t do it just so you can go to Harvard. Do it for your growth, your love of your passion, and love of the people around you. Then when senior year rolls around, and if you don’t get in, you didn’t waste your HS years. And know that wherever you end up, the prestige of your school or the quality or ranking of their programs won’t determine how much you will learn. What determines that is how much effort you put in. My dad went to the University of Utah and he’s the smartest guy I know. (You may say it’s biased, but in all veracity I think its true) </p>
<p>WHAT THIS GUY SAID!!! ^</p>
thanks everyone
also feel free to reply to this discussion:)
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1752620-tams.html#latest
thanks once again:)