<p>For current Harvard students, what did people think of you during high school? Were you that kid who everyone expected to attend a HYPS level school? Did your decision come as a huge shocker to most of your classmates?</p>
<p>interesting thread-I will be checking this later, when people have responded 
I’m applying to Harvard this year, so I don’t know exactly, but I do know someone who made it into Harvard. She had a perfect SAT score, had lots of leadership roles in her ECs, had almost a perfect average (99%), etc. So, I would say yeah.</p>
<p>I come from a very competitive school. I’m not academic standout but would be at any other normal high school. Therefore, no one is expecting someone like me to make it, but it’s still worth applying!</p>
<p>at my h.s. (pretty competitive schools that sent lots of kids to top schools) the 2 guys that got into harvard my year were huge shockers (one was ranked 45/320 the other 37/320). I kind of felt bad for them because both were URMs and everyone just kept harping on the fact that they only got in because they were URMs and took the spots of qualified applicants…the #1 ranked kid in my class had crazy stats and didn’t get in anywhere where people expected he’d get in. That guy was ranked #1, 1600/1600 SAT, 800s on 5 SAT II, 14 AP exams all 5s, good recommendations and pretty good ECs. He applied to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Georgetown, UVA (out of state), and USC. He only got into UVA. :S</p>
<p>I know a guy who got into Harvard and it was a huge shock. He had slightly better than average grades, a perfect sat score (nobody knew), a wicked oxcontin addiction, and an attitude that most clearly resembled not caring about the future and living in the moment. He drank, smoked weed, and partied most nights, but had an IQ of 180+. We later learned he was a math olympiad, and the federal government had included him in research at CERN in representing the US. He decided to go to MIT though. Just to think, I shared a blunt with this guy…</p>
<p>@whartongrad08, do you think it was Tufts syndrome? but it can’t be with Harvard, right? lol since it’s ranked #1 in the country at the moment</p>
<p>hahahahaha i LOLed at your post, Doberhound11. That guy sounds amazing :)</p>
<p>Great idea for a thread!
I don’t personally know anyone accepted to Harvard…but if I am accepted, it’ll be a huge shock to people (mostly because no one ever gets accepted…or rarely even applies).</p>
<p>I know I probably won’t get accepted (SAT II scores too low and international), but I don’t think people would be too surprised if I got in, although for me personally, it would be the biggest shock of my life (: most people who get in from our school are athletes, and almost all go to Princeton</p>
<p>^^^ yeah dude, he deffinately is. I’ve gotten to chill with him in Mass. a couple of times… same guy I knew before.</p>
<p>^haha that’s funny. I bet he’s the type of person who would make an awesome friend :)</p>
<p>@rainbowsprinkles - Honestly no one could understand what happened. All of our profs and counselors were shocked. I think for some of the “lesser” schools he faced a bit of Tufts Syndrome. For the other schools (HYPSM), those schools are a crapshoot for anyone…I wouldn’t have been shocked if he got rejected from 1 -3 but to get rejected from all 5…last I heard though he loved UVA, did well there obviously, got a cool job at the white house, and not just got accepted to Harvard Law. So i guess in the end things worked out for him :). (see people it’s not the end of the world if you dont get in to one of your top choices).</p>
<p>In my school, the valedictorian of last year was the only person in thirty years to get into Harvard. This year, I was the only person to receive an interview (even before this years valedictorian), and I’m not even in the top 20 of my class.</p>
<p>Wow that dude got rejected from USC? That’s crazy. Maybe they thought he was neurotic/numbers obsessed/couldn’t handle less-than-perfect? Also Doberhound that dude sounds AWESOME. :D</p>
<p>My school just had someone waitlisted last year. (He’s now at Yale.) Everyone else got rejected. :(</p>
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<p>I thought interviews didn’t demonstrate merit and is a first come/first serve affair?</p>
<p>I know…and trying to convince the valedictorian is pretty hard. We sent our applications literally at the same time, and we’ve also been neighbors for around five years (so I thought I would actually see her on interview day). She’s a nice person, but seems a little too paranoid about all of this. lol</p>
<p>Lol, I feel for her. Our school doesn’t rank, but if it did I’d be near the top… and while all my friends who did Yale SCEA from my school already had their interview, I never got one. ):</p>
<p>People never thought a male underwear model like me could make it to Harvard. Proved them wrong…</p>
<p>^ I think you’re my role model.</p>
<p>@DwightEisenhower, haha are you kidding? That’s pretty fantastic if you’re not :)</p>