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Yes I am! SAT and SAT II Math II. Are the others okay?
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<p>Yea. They rest are OK, but not great. If you can I'd recommend improving all of them of course. Even though the focus of your application will be more on the Strong Man Club and less on the academics, I think an excellent set of board scores will be more helpful to you than to your average applicant.</p>
<p>It is my personal opinion (and I suggest you take it with a grain of salt, because after all, I'm only someone who just went through the process, so I cannot claim to be an expert on this subject) that when it comes to accomplishments like yours, they would focus less on the accomplishment itself than the process you went through to reach that point.</p>
<p>Yes, you do have a chance. Harvard may need a body builder right as they view your application. Have you considered playing a sport that uses your skill (such as football?). If you are a rising senior, it may be too late for that. However, you do have a hook, as do bassoonists and the like.</p>
<p>lol, no offense, but Harvard has no real "need" for bodybuilders. They may need football players and bassoonist for their teams and bands, but they don't exactly have a bodybuilding team.</p>
<p>Look at Zuma's Stat Roster to see the academic and extracurricular accomplishments of acceptees and rejectees to Harvard--I think you will be shocked.</p>
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<li>Sophomore: Psychology (5)</li>
<li>Junior: Spanish, English Lit, Biology, Calc AB, US History(awaiting results, probably 5,5,5,3,3)</li>
<li>Senior: English Lang, Physics, Calc BC, Chemistry</li>
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<p>ECs:</p>
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<li>President: Student Council (officer since freshman year!)</li>
<li>President: Strong Man Club (workout 2-3 hours a week)</li>
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<p>The Strong Man Club is my main EC. I've been working out since sixth grade. I plan on using it as my biggest accomplishment, and I will send professional pictures and maybe a video. I posted some pics below:</p>
<p>Not really. A lot of people who apply to Harvard have very good AP scores. Some people are National AP Scholars, and they still end up being rejected.</p>
<p>I'm not saying it didn't help them. I'm saying that you don't get that much help from these awards because they are very common, especially in the Harvard applicant pool.</p>
<p>Scholar: 101,391
Scholar with Honor: 41,589
Scholar with Distinction: 53,030
State Scholar: 109
National Scholar: 6,152</p>
<p>There are about 23,000 applicants to Harvard each year, and the number of Scholars with Distinction is more than double that amount. The number of National Scholars is about four times more than the number of people accepted to Harvard.</p>
<p>stele32, u fail to account for the fact that most of the national scholars are entering college freshmen. There are only 330-350 rising seniors who receive that award.</p>
<p>The AP Scores make you look better (especially the Spanish one - that was hard this year), but to be honest unlike most people that have responded thus far, I don't think that your probability of admission to Harvard is very high (3%). Your SAT's are way low as is your SAT2 Math. Also, I don't think that Harvard will really appreciate body building as your main EC. It does not improve your intellectual ability, and therefore would not help you transtition to college. But your being from Arkansas could help you somewhat.</p>
<p>To get in with your SAT/SAT2 scores I think that you would need to have major international/national awards or parents that donate over 100k to Harvard.</p>
<p>I would urge the OP to ignore most of the comments here, particularly those by other high schoolers purporting to rate his "chances" within a single decimal point!</p>
<p>Byerly, do you really think that this candidate has a probability of admission greater than 10%?</p>
<p>How many non-urm, non-low income applicants with poor SAT/SAT2 scores, below average EC's, and no community service does Harvard take?</p>
<p>And I don't think that I'm being mean. Hopefully from posts like mine the OP will not be expecting admission from Harvard. Therefore he should apply to matches and not be terribly disappointed if he is rejected to Harvard (which is highly probable).</p>
