<p>“I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn’t really matter” lmao</p>
<p>So stressful too because decisions come out the week before finals… lovely senior year</p>
<p>@popap15 That’s exactly how I feel! I was in between Harvard and Brown and just decided to go for my favorite, Harvard. Sometimes I feel super confident esp because of the family support, but I know my chances are basically 0. So my emotions keep oscillating to the extremes and I have no idea why I thought I’d have a chance; I even begin to doubt my essays, which I thought were solid. I’m just so ahgdhjksdhgkjds</p>
<p>I’m soo excited. Although my scores aren’t the best, I think I have a good shot :)</p>
<p>Humm… How accurate is this?</p>
<p>Sadly, it is merely optimistic, but that’s someyhing the rest of us seem to lack…</p>
<p>Decisions come out the day I’m auditioning for the spring musical. I’m either going to be really happy or really sad with these two decisions coming out at the same time.</p>
<p>@popap15 wait a second: one of these schools doesn’t belong</p>
<p>Yale
Princeton
Northeastern
University of Chicago
Liberty University
University of Michigan</p>
<p>you know what liberty university is, right? Basically if you said, “find me a school that is the exact opposite of HYP, Uchicago, etc. in every way possible,” I would say liberty university. Founded by Jerry Falwell? How is it on the same list as those other schools?</p>
<p>9 days left!</p>
<p>@ram0276 , yup i’m applying to UPenn RD…to Wharton!</p>
<p>same! unfortunately for me, wharton is nearly impossible to get into :/</p>
<p>Just as a general question, what drew you all to Harvard University?</p>
<p>Honestly, the resources more than anything. Sure, the name and prestige has a part, but I don’t have many opportunities at my family’s income. I yearn to travek abroad and do study abroad programs. Harvard’s low-income initiative coupled with their strong and powerful network that, honestly, no other school could provide (barring some of the ivies of course). The fact that I could get a free education along with FA that covers study abroad is just amazing and super attractive. My parents can’t afford to spend a dime on college now, but Harvard would change the whole equation for me.</p>
<p>@NewYork94 I’m rooting for you! I’ve read some of your posts on other threads and you seem super qualified. Good luck!</p>
<p>@NewYork94 Same here, basically! The opportunities, both academic and “extracurricular,” if you will, that Harvard offers, are amazing. And the traveling abroad also appealed to me! I want to do something in college that will have an impact on people that haven’t had the same luck I have right now and are in a place where my family was just ten years ago. I really feel like every kid in the world deserves the same access to education and opportunities we get here in the U.S, and though that’s totally idealistic and virtually impossible to accomplish, I want to do my part to get maybe just one kid one step closer. This I could do at Harvard all while getting a pretty much unrivaled education myself and, like NewYork94 said, building up for my career.</p>
<p>@mohcoh- thanks a bunch. I hope the adcomm can at least determine me to be “qualified.” I will be praying for you and everyone on here. We all know how the anxiety is ripping us to shreds, haha!</p>
<p>@shelly318 You hit the spot with that post. Just think, if half the children in India who receive little to no formal education could obtain one, where would our world be? Among those kids could be the next scientist to cure cancer, diabetes, or AIDs. The fact that the reality is otherwise is sad and demonstrates the sheer loss of human potential. Though if everyone in India could reach a point that they could apply to Ivies, then we’d be facing even greater odds than we already do now, hahaha.</p>
<p>I mean even worse odds, not greater odds. I guess I’m getting tired and starting to dream.</p>
<p>I’m on the same boat as you guys. In addition to all of that though, I feel like Harvard is such a good launch pad for any career. Just thinking of every great leader, inventor or author that has gone to Harvard, and how far they have been able to get is a little mind-boggling. It is almost euphoric to think that I could call home the university that has produced some of the greatest minds and thinkers in history; it would be the honor of a lifetime.</p>
<p>I’m really hoping that all of us manage to go to Harvard or any other great school that will serve as an awesome first step into the future life or career we will have. For now though, it feels really good to know that we are all going through the same thing! Makes it feel more real and less solitary!</p>
<p>On a side though, it would be equally honorable to be able to make future HS seniors euphoric about a lesser known university simply because at one time you yourself called it home. As they say, you make the college, the college doesn’t make you.</p>
<p>I’m kind of worried… I have a website to my non-profit that was in my additional info. My interviewer read looked at it for 13 min, but the actual university has not looked yet…I feel like I have already been tossed aside. UGGHHH not looking forward to next week</p>