<p>tupac: Yeah, that is a very good hook which will definitely boost your chances tremendously. However, keep in mind that IMO gold medal winners have been denied admission to Harvard before, so your chances aren't quite 100%.</p>
<p>But they are good.</p>
<p>How about mine?</p>
<p>It completely depends upon what the adcoms think of your site.</p>
<p>apfreak.. you're freaking out on us, haha. chill chill. harvard ranks "personal qualities/character" as one of the most important admissions factors.</p>
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IS BEING FROM FLORIDA A HOOK FOR HARVARD YALE DUKE PRINCETON?? ANYBODY KNOW????????????
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<p>just make sure not to freak out on the interviewer like that.</p>
<p>I'm sleeping with Lawrence Summers. Is that a hook?</p>
<p>My stats
-inpoverished native american from North Dakota
-cured cancer
-won a noble prize and 3 olympic medals
-2400 SAT
-perfect 100 average (first student with perfect average in schools 34 year history)
-valadictorian
-1 of 3 students in county applying to out of state schools
-self studyied for 13 APs, all 5s
-Invented a perpetual motion machine and solved all of the worlds energy problems</p>
<p>Do I have a chance at Harvard? What about Jefferson County Community College?</p>
<p>Both are a big reach :)</p>
<p>"Won a noble prize"</p>
<p>hahahaha</p>
<p>One of my friends wants to know if world class rowing counts as hook? He's on the Australian U-something rowing team.</p>
<p>I tell him it is but he still wants to ask.</p>
<p>I have a time machine....hook? I bet you anything have relationship with (gasp..gasp)...sex....(gasp..gasp) with get you into Harvard! :) Ask Saxfreq.</p>
<p>kjoodles, tell him to contact the harvard rowing coach. being a recruited athlete is definitely a big plus.</p>
<p>Is being 16 and starting to go to a CC at 13 plus living in Santa fe New Mexico in a low income family a hook?</p>
<p>Oh please, I live in Wyoming, my family is way below poverty, I have to help care for my 7 brothers and sisters every day of the year, and our house was destroyed and we moved seven times during my freshman and sophomore years. My parents are both out of work. So get out of my way cuz I'm comin to Harvard!</p>
<p>Hm. Would, say, Larry Summer's son get in? Would he even apply? What do you guys think...</p>
<p>"Won a noble prize"</p>
<p>hahahaha</p>
<p>hahahahaha second'd</p>
<p>Trixee15:</p>
<p>Definitely, that is huge.</p>
<p>Sweet! Ya think so? OH yeah, I'm also a minority.</p>
<p>"IS BEING FROM FLORIDA A HOOK FOR HARVARD YALE DUKE PRINCETON?? ANYBODY KNOW???????????? "</p>
<p>You've got to be kidding me? Florida has 100's of applicants to those schools each year, and there are PLENTY of opportunities for you in ALL areas in your state... States like Wyoming and South Dakota at times have only 5 people, if not less, apply from each state. Harvard accepts at least 3 people from every state to make sure they get people from all 50 states. People in places like South Dakota don't have much of anything... In fact, most high schools there don't even have AP courses offered and the only ecs avalible are sports... So really, being from South Dakota can make up for a lack of extracurricular activities, for an example... And maybe an SAT score of like 2000... Also, most people from these upper-mid-western states where almost no one applies generally only the rich people from those states apply.. So being low-income and living in South Dakota or some place as such can and does help you in the admissions process.</p>
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<p>I am almost certain that this is wrong.</p>
<p>Actually, they probably accept more. It is true... There's even a map of how many people Harvard accepted in one year.. They have a website with the stats and everything. My next post will have the URL. HarvardAlum98', Are you from a rich, northeastern family in which the only reason you applied to harvard, had a near perfect sat score, a great gpa, tons of ecs and awards, was because your parents made you do so? Reality bites, doesn't it? Now I'm sure I'll get in trouble with the moderators because they're probably in the same situation that you are or were in and God forbid the truth get out in the open. It's very sad when students who are nothing but normal applicants for the ivies try to find all "possible" hooks... I mean, being from FLORIDA, a hook? One person thought being from southern California was.</p>