<p>no, i know that. ive just been assured thousands of times by all my counselors, plus i know ppl with 88+ avgs that make it, so i dont worry about it, maybe thats just my personal subjective definition of a safety. by far, a public ommunity college would be considered an overall BACKUP safety. i dont really want to go to cornell though, im more interested in dartmouth and my reaches.</p>
<p>again, just my personal beliefs, though i do agree with you on size/safety correlation</p>
<p>dont. dont be so sure.
people with perfect SAT scores and almost perfect gpa' s are turned down. even a guy with 2400 and a perfect gpa cant call cornell a safety.
your friend has a ok chance at harvard. But you never know. he may get in. he may not.</p>
<p>Reach: Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech
Safety: BYU
My hook is 1600 SAT (I took the old one), 800 physics SAT II, 800 Math II SAT II, 790 Lit SAT II, my dad's a professor at Harvard, and I worked in a Harvard lab over the summer. I hope I get in.</p>
<p>Actually, at schools with 30-40% rates, they will sometimes purposefully turn down high SAT, high GPA applicants because they are more likely to be accepted to more prestigious universities and in lieu will accept lower stat applicants that may seem not to have a chance at a higher university. (strategic admissions- sucks)</p>
<p>sampo.
dont worry you will get into harvard. guranteed. (I am assuming your dad is a professor at harvard)
:)
btw: dont worry about what circles say. small universities know they are safeties for candidates with perfect scores. but it wont hurt if you apply to some more schools.(just in case.)</p>
<p>*circles says</p>
<p>No, not all the candidates with perfect scores. Just ones that don't show interest (i.e. bored at the interview). Show interest in all colleges you apply to so you don't become a victim of strategic admissions.</p>
<p>that goes without saying "tall guy with southern accent" :D
you dont yawn while in an interview. even if its an interview for your most hated safety.
:)</p>
<p>Where did you work at Harvard this summer? If your dad got you a position, it doesn't really look as good. Are you RSI?</p>
<p>What's RSI? I applied for the job as a reasearch assistant to one of my dad's partners. I ended up working in the same lab as my dad, but he didn't get me the job.</p>
<p>Research Science Institute. Check it out in the high school forum.</p>
<p>As the world changes and globalizes China is growing</p>
<p>I, a middle class white new yorker, am living amongst the economic powerhouse of the future</p>
<p>I am one of 14 americans in Taiwan (only one applying to harvard) on an exchange program, living with a very traditional family (I have to eat a soup made out of wood, bark and bee maggots to make me grow taller haha) and learning Chinese</p>
<p>I attend a technical highschool and intern at a Integrated Controller electronics company, personal experience in the type of business that will matter most in the future.</p>
<p>I've always had diverse interests in both dance, engineering and research, a true "renaissance man" and i'm experiencing both culture and engineering here. I have lived with many native families unrelated to each other so I have a great idea of the true differences in culture (as opposed to immigrants who still live with their parents and carry over their native culture)</p>
<p>if you didnt know harvard has this program called renaissance engineering which is PERFECT for me</p>
<p>unique? what do you think?</p>
<p>oh and i've got decent SATs (within mid 50%) and a 4.0 GPA and all that community service and junk</p>
<p>Does this qualify as a hook?</p>
<p>I founded my own Software Development Company that earned $10,000 in profit first year. Through company...</p>
<p>-Modelled foreign language television viewers for client
-Modelled bandwidth usage for networks for client
-Co-authored a published paper for military communications
-Cystic Fibrosis Charity 5k Web Site and online register</p>
<p>(That's the good stuff I worked up to, Die Hard Excel Warrior 4 Eva)</p>
<p>no, i believe those are completely useless....</p>
<p>OF COURSE IT'S A HOOK.... geez... some ppl :)</p>
<p>You co-authored a published paper? Wow that's pretty amazing. Unless by co-author you mean there were like 30 authors and you were #15 of them or something...</p>
<p>I wrote piece of software and crunched a bunch of data through it, which another employee used to formulate a hypothesis on. And he thought it was only fair to give me credit as a co-author. </p>
<p>I didn't even realize that was going to be the end product when I was doing my part, it was only like 2 months afterward that he told me would be publising it in a paper and giving me credit as a co-author.</p>
<p>does being filipino count as a hook? i know i'm asian, but whenever i see a high percentage of asians/pacific islanders being admitted, i say to myself, most of them must be chinese (which is the case, i'm presuming?) . also, my family is low-income. any thoughts?</p>
<p>I wrote a letter in 6th grade to Pizza Hut and included an attachment that suggested new ideas for pizzas. one of them was the the "insider" pizza. 2 weeks later i got a reply saying that even though i was in 6th grade, i might sue the company if they took my ideas. so...i was disappointed and i threw the letter out, and stupidly didn't bother to save my own letter. a few months later.....i see the Insider being advertised on T.V. It was all so sad....</p>
<p>but i guess thats not really a hook. damn T_T</p>
<p>no but it is kinda funny</p>
<p>Hows being a very low-income Argentinean Jew for a hook? lol</p>