<p>^I would say a score in the mid 2100s is not disqualifying, it certainly makes you at the least competitive. What might make or break you, if you have a good gpa, are the recommendations and essays</p>
<p>Not the least competitive. According to Naviance, mid 2100s lands you between low to average, meaning between 25% to 50% of applicants. Even so, I feel as though it could be a break… I don’t know maybe it’s just nerves.</p>
<p>without mindblowing EC’s, recruit-level athletic talent, prestigious competition titles (USAMO, Intel…etc), or a URM/legacy/first generation status, a 2100s will almost certainly break you. There is almost no way for you to fit into that well-rounded category with a 2100.</p>
<p>Has Harvard ever revealed the relative importance of the different aspects of the application? I know transcript is most important, and letters of recommendation are also crucial. So would the ranking look something like this?</p>
<p>Transcript
Letters of Recommendation
Extracurriculars
SAT/ACT, SAT Subject Tests
Essays</p>
<p>If Harvard’s admissions is anything like Yale’s (which I suspect it to be), then the relative importance is as such (as related by Brenzel, dean of admissions at Yale):</p>
<p>Transcript > Essays > Teacher Recommendations > ECs > Standardized Tests > etc…</p>
<p>I always thought it was transcripts>ec’s>essays>standardized test scores>teacher recs…</p>
<p>CantConcentrate that sounds pretty reasonable. The essays do a lot more to create the image and feel of the applicant than EC blurbs or test scores.</p>
<p>The real problem with EC is…we are freaking not given enough space on the common app to describe them!</p>
<p>I kind of doubt ECs would be more important than SAT/ACT scores…that’s just my uninformed opinion though. I thought usually, GPA/transcript and test scores are most important, then some combo of ECs, essays, and teacher recs</p>
<p>Harvard released its application numbers for SCEA: 4856, a 14.9% increase over last year. <a href=“http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/11/early-action-applications-rise-to-4856/[/url]”>http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/11/early-action-applications-rise-to-4856/</a></p>
<p>Ahhh so many applicants!!!</p>
<p>Crap. Arghhhhhh</p>
<p>Haha wow that’s a lot…</p>
<p>Well I have 14 days (almost to the minute!) to accept that I’m not going to get into Harvard. I may not even get rejected, and will have to wait 3.5 more months for a final decision…</p>
<p>I’m just going to accept the fact that I’m not getting in, right now D:</p>
<p>Do you guys think socioeconomic diversity plays any part in the admissions process, and if so, to what extent?</p>
<p>I looked through the 2016 RD results thread for harvard. There were no applicants with sub 50k income who lived in the U.S. Or atleast, none that I could see.</p>
<p>I would HOPE someone from a poor family and poor schools would get at least as great an advantage as a well-off URM. Isn’t the whole point of these admissions boosts to judge achievement relative to opportunity?</p>
<p>That means all people from Africa will be accepted by Harvard.</p>
<p>^Domestic applicants only haha</p>
<p>Then it means Harvard will accept only the American beggars and not you folks</p>