my goal school, Harvard?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>About Me:
URM (Afghanistan)
Low-Income
First Generation
Speak 2 Lanuages
Class of 2009
QPA = UW - 97.50 W - ??</p>

<p>Current Classes -</p>

<p>ap ush
ap euro
ap enviromental science
ap physcology
honors chemistry
ap mircoeconmics
arabic 2
math
english</p>

<p>senior year schedule i am hoping for:
ap bio or ap chem
ap physics
ap human geo
arabic 3
ap statistics
math
ap english literature
*something like that</p>

<p>School Information:
Does not rank
Sends 1-3 to ivys a year
Small about 1,000-2,000 kids (2,000 max)
In my class around 450 kids</p>

<p>EC's
Track and Field (Spring) - Capitan of Sprinting Division
Swimming (Winter) - Captian of Team
Arabic Club
Sci-Fi Club (since freshman year)
Buisness Club (vice president, will be president next year)
Science Olympiad Team - Possiably starting it
Possiably starting an Academic Decalthon Team
Studnet Tutor - Tutor kids - especially elementary and middle school.
Job at Resturatant (Ast. Manager) - Work about 20 hrs a week, mainly all on the weekends.
Creative Writing Club</p>

<p>*Hope to get recurited as a runner.
*I have meet with an Harvard Admission Spokesperson (I have no clue their exact title, meet her at a college fair) She said that I should really apply, and that my application would be interresting? I don't know if thats a good or bad thing.</p>

<p>Awards:
Predict AP Scholar</p>

<p>My Essay - Will be about the struggles I have lived with in my life, moving around a lot, and the fact I have never been given a real opprotunity to show what I have got.</p>

<p>If I need to add anymore I will.</p>

<p>If this helps will apply to harvard ssp of 08, or tasp, or rsi.</p>

<p>If you guys have any tips let me know guys?</p>

<p>Tell me were I should improve what I should do and etc?</p>

<p>If there are any current Harvard Students, please I want to hear from you.</p>

<p>*P.S. Sorry for grammer, typing this up at school, and I am on a hurry, lol.</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>oh I am in Robotics. Head Website Design, and I help design the robot to we went to nationals last year.</p>

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<p>*grammar…</p>

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<p>Well, it will all depend on how you do on the SAT/ACT and SAT II’s. I assume you haven’t taken them yet, or haven’t done well.</p>

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<p>I agree–a whole lot will depend upon test scores and essays. You actually have a decent shot at Harvard (unlike 99% of the people on here who ask about their chances at that school).</p>

<p>Best of luck to you.</p>

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<p>lol yeah sorry english is not my first language.</p>

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<p>well I have taken practice sat classes, and score is predicted around 2100-2200ish area. Would it helped if I take the ACT to? Anything else I can do?</p>

<p>Thank you very much!</p>

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<p>afghani is not a urm.</p>

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<p>its not? the spokeswomen from harvard and many other colleges said I would be considered a minority?</p>

<p>Also please chance me at these other schools:
Princeton
NYU
BU
Connecticut College
Darthmouth
Columbia
MIT
UCONN
Amherst</p>

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<p>It is definitely a URM.</p>

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<p>no. its not. the middle east isn’t considered african american</p>

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<p>URM does not mean african american buddy, it means under-represented minority. Get it?</p>

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<p>so I am an URM right?</p>

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<p>Perhaps, but African-American, Latino, and Native-American are the so-called most desirable and underrepresented at schools.</p>

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<p>He’ll be considered an international–which makes the pool he’s in difficult, but whether he will be considered a URM or not is really kind of a mute point since they like to balance their acceptees across various countries anyway. The URM stuff mostly comes into play for American applications.</p>

<p>What helps the applicant the most is that there are very few Afghanis applying to Harvard (or any other Ivy for that matter). </p>

<p>As far as the question about the test scores, a 2200 is acceptable for Harvard, a 2100 won’t get you in. If you can get the score up to the 2240 level (keeping in mind that your native language isn’t English), you would have a pretty good chance of acceptance–close to 55% in my view. (For your own information, the scores to really work on are the critical reading and mathematics sections. Harvard cares about the Writing section, but not nearly as much as they do about the first two sections.) Get a 1540/1600 on these sections, with at least a 700-710 in writing and your application will get very serious consideration.</p>

<p>P.S. I’d chance you at the other schools–but without the test scores, it would all be conjecture. Let’s just say that if you have good enough test scores (and GPAs and courseload and ECs) for Harvard, you have good enough everything for the other schools on your list. (Although MIT will want to see at least a 780 SAT Math score).</p>

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<p>wow thank you for the information calcruzer!!</p>