<p>These past few days, I came to realize that I love Harvard... I tried so hard to resist, but sadly these last three visits just broke me. Now I feel obligated to apply RD to everything...</p>
<p>Specifics?</p>
<p>aww! </p>
<p>(btw, how could anyone resist a title as awesome as this one? Kudos Carin) :)</p>
<p>What do you mean? Just apply to Harvard, nothing ventured nothing gained. </p>
<p>And Harvard doesn’t have EA so its not like you’ll miss out on EA for any other colleges.</p>
<p>“What do you mean? Just apply to Harvard, nothing ventured nothing gained.”</p>
<p>It’s really the fantasizing-about-the-life-at-Harvard-then-getting-possibly-rejected-then-being-angry-for-days that the OP is referring to I think.</p>
<p>Apply I guess. Hope for the best.</p>
<p>You should look at admittance to Harvard as rolling dice. There is no shame in being turned down when the reasons may as well be random.</p>
<p>Grisam pretty much sums it up… except that I have a legacy status to another decent Ivy, where if I apply ED to, I probably have a more substantial chance of getting in… as opposed to just applying RD everywhere and testing my luck. But I realized I shouldn’t apply ED anywhere I’m not 100% satisfied with going to.</p>
<p>Think really hard about your ED school. </p>
<p>a. Can you get in?
b. Would you enjoy that school? You’re gonna have to make compromises with every school, keep in mind.
c. To the Ivy you referred to, how much do you think legacy is gonna help?
d. I’m assuming you’re a junior? Because I <em>think</em> all ED applicants had to be submitted a looooong time ago for Ivies at least.
e. If you can’t do an Ivy caliber school, look closely at other not top-notch but still very good schools such as UCs and U Michigan (just examples, whichever one fits you).</p>
<p>Best title ever.
Go for it!!! Just apply wherever the heck you want to!</p>
<p>I’m not applying this year (not in 12th); and yes, and I think ED was due like a month ago. And the school I’m referring to is UPenn… which will place my legacy status under much better consideration ED than RD. For non-Ivy caliber schools, I’m probably going to apply to Northwestern or Johns Hopkins… Anyways, wouldn’t it be better to at least “shoot for the stars” than to… say… go to a school that I might not necessarily love? Ugh.</p>
<p>And thanks for the title compliments.</p>
<p>Yeah, UPenn isn’t really gonna care about your legacy status with RD decisions. I can’t say about Hopkins or Northwestern without your stats though.</p>
<p>Here’s the problem. The quote “shoot for the stars. Even if you miss, you’ll land on the moon” doesn’t really apply here. If you get rejected by Harvard RD, then you have a significantly lower chance for other schools RD. UPenn is gonna know that you didn’t apply there ED so they aren’t gonna give your legacy status as much of a choice.</p>
<p>If you applied to UPenn ED, you have a fairly nice chance of getting in (assuming your stats are all good). </p>
<p>I honestly don’t know. It’s stupid to say that you’re guaranteed admission to Harvard unless you’re a descendant of John Harvard or something… </p>
<p>It’s smart to say that you have a fairly good chance at UPenn due to your legacy status IF you apply ED. </p>
<p>UPenn is a fantastic school though. It’s #12 in the US NWR World Rankings and has an awesome business school (best in the world).</p>
<p>In the end, it’s up to you really. I recommend applying ED to UPenn if you TRULY love it. </p>
<p>One more thing:</p>
<p>Any Ivy school + Stanford/MIT/Caltech/Duke are amongst the best schools in the world. You’re shooting for the stars by applying to any of these schools.</p>
<p>I’ve heard this spiel over and over again. It’s just that I don’t know if I’d necessarily be 100% happy at UPenn, and if it’s right for me; I’m learning towards science/Pre-Med… not Business. And Harvard is by far way better than Penn at business, especially when coupled with classes at MIT.</p>
<p>" And Harvard is by far way better than Penn at business, especially when coupled with classes at MIT."</p>
<p>Coupled with classes at MIT? How?</p>
<p>I dunno, Wharton vs Harvard Business is arguable. I’d stick with Wharton but it’s still fair to say both are fantastic business schools, both being recognized as superb/</p>
<p>Though none of this matters since you wanna go science/premed. </p>
<p>Look at it this way: If you apply to ED and your stats are comparable to the rest of the competition (check some of the threads in the UPenn forum) then you’re almost guaranteed admisison.</p>
<p>BUT you don’t want to go to UPenn… </p>
<p>Ask: are you not happy because of the name recognition of UPenn vs the name recognition at Harvard? Or because of the campus/student body/other reason? If it’s the latter of the two, I’d recommend finding an Ivy/top-caliber school which matches your interests. If it’s the former, I hate to say this but you have the same chance of Harvard as everyone else–not very high.</p>
<p>A Harvard education is gonna guarantee a good future–but so is an education at another Ivy school.</p>
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<p>Harvard students can take MIT courses at MIT (as they’re both in Cambridge) as well if they choose to do so.</p>
<p>I had a typo. I meant, Harvard is by far better than Penn at science, especially when coupled with MIT.</p>
<p>An Ivy league education won’t necessarily guarantee you a good future, unless you decide to be proactive and make something out of yourself using this education. </p>
<p>I think Harvard has stronger academics, and I don’t like Philly as much as I like the Boston area. Philly’s science resources are incomparable to those of MIT and Harvard, and the general
Cambridge/Boston area. Also, Penn has issues with its residential living, and again, it’s campus isn’t the safest. I don’t know. I’ll visit Penn again and set up that LAS thing…</p>
<p>You’re a sophomore in high school, right?</p>
<p>Yes. You went through my post history, didn’t you?</p>
<p>Don’t flatter yourself. I’ve had an account and have been lurking for a while and recently decided to start posting.</p>
<p>How am I flattering myself? I go through people’s histories all the time.</p>