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<p>Hi, If someone plays no sports or instruments, doesn't have any hooks (male, well-off, no legacy), and isn't a super-genius (ISEF/AIME winner), is it still "possible" to get into Harvard?</p>

<p>Now, I know the cliche anything is possible, but have people gotten into Harvard or other Ivies without these extracurriculars?</p>

<p>If you were President/leader of a few clubs, founder of 1, and volunteered a lot, would that be enough? IF not, what else would one have to do? </p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Why don’t you read through this?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1440830-do-regular-kids-get-into-harvard.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1440830-do-regular-kids-get-into-harvard.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>does anyone have any answers?</p>

<p>(thanks for the thread link by the way— but I didn’t imply a “regular” kid…).</p>

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<p>You sound pretty “regular” to me.</p>

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<p>What does regular mean? Are you passionate about something? How passionate?</p>

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<p>what caliber level of ec’s would you need to be a pretty competitive applicant if for example you had a 2300 SAT, 8 AP’s taken through junior year (maybe 4/5 senior year), Top 2% of the class of about 650, and were not a urm…</p>

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<p>^^^^^
Some insight here:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/2646596-post3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/2646596-post3.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I am such a person, so yes!</p>

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<p>Honestly it’s tough to say. Awards like ISEF and others alone can’t do much. I myself am an applicant with what many people see as “major” science awards (such as ISEF), but that didn’t stop me from getting deferred to Harvard. </p>

<p>Just express yourself honestly on the application, and present what you think is best about you very prominently. Do well in school. And then apply, sit back, and hope for the best, all while being cognizant of the fact that you’re waiting on the results of a school which rejects 94% of its applicants.</p>

<p>That’s all I can say with reasonable confidence at this point! Good luck to you!</p>

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<p>@arwarw that link didnt work…</p>

<p>@Elanorci what kind of things did you do?</p>

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<p>My interests were entirely academic. I was really into philosophy and literature (a really specific author and time period). My extracurriculars reflected this: I was in the Latin club, played quiz bowl, did debate, etc etc etc. </p>