Pls!!! Tell my chances for Harvard!!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My name is Anna and I live in Mexico. I attend a small private American School. This fall, I'm going to be applying for college but I'm very nervous about it. I really would like to know my chances to gaining acceptance to the top colleges. Please, take a look at my high school accomplishments:</p>

<p>School: Private, 82 graduating</p>

<p>GPA: 4.8 (I'm the top 1 of my generation) </p>

<p>Academics:
English (2 honors and 2 APs)
History (2 honors and 2 APs)
Math (3 [including pre-calculus] honors and 2 APs Calculus)
Science (4 honors and 3 APs)
Intermediate Special Spanish (freshmen)
Regular Spanish (3 yrs.)</p>

<p>Leadership
Editor-In-Chief of the school's literary magazine, community service organizer of 2 places (does that count as 2 positions?), middle school counsler's assistant (does that even count?)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
National junior honor society (freshmen), national honor society, model un, band, peer tutor, middle school tutor, nurse's assistant at a local hospital, SAT tutor</p>

<p>SAT I: perfect score
SAT II: taking it in 2 months or so</p>

<p>Community service
800 hours</p>

<p>Awards
National Merit Scholarship, AP Scholar with Distinction Award, AP Diploma for Overseas Study, Honarable Mention at a MUN simmulation in San Antonio, Outstanding Award at IMMUNS simmulation, Outstanding Award at MUN simmulation in China, Best Delegate at IMMUNS, Merril Award (community service award), top science student award (at my school), top math sudent award, recognition from one of the places that I do community service </p>

<p>I wasn't pretty much of an athlete. I never had time for sports activity and I rather enjoyed working out at the gym. My major interest was science but my school didn't really provide lots of extracurriculars related w/ it. So I took all the science courses that the dept. offered. Also I love doing community service. I am the organizer of 2 places and apart from that, I do my own by working at a hospital. I don't know if I have strong leadership. I didn't liked student council and other stuffs. </p>

<p>I'm interested in becoming a physician</p>

<p>These are the colleges that I'm planning to apply:
Harvard
Princeton
University of Chicago
Yale
Johns Hopkins
University of Pennsylvania
Dartmouth College</p>

<p>Please!! Tell my chances of gaining acceptance in these colleges (especially Harvard)</p>

<p>Thank you</p>

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<p>Youre in to all colleges listed. with perfect scores and a 4.8 gpa, its hard to deny you. However, expect one rejection from either Harvard, Princeton, or Yale, just cuz they r like that.</p>

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<p>yeah:</p>

<p>Harvard- slight reach ( Harvard rejects 25% with those that have a perfect score)
Princeton- slight reach
University of Chicago- match
Yale- slight reach
John Hopkins- match
U Penn- match
Dartmouth- match </p>

<p>The best thing that I can tell you is that your SAT 2 scores have to be at least 780s to have a good chance in getting into Harvard, yale, and Princeton. If you take 3 SAT 2s, and score an 800 on them ( which, according to the statistics only 1/20567 achieve), then you will have around a 80 percent chance in getting into the colleges, meaning harvard, yale and princeton</p>

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<p>Harvard-slim to none
Princeton-slim to none
Yale-slim to none</p>

<p>But then so are everyone's chances. Consider doing ED or EA for one of them.</p>

<p>University of Pennsylvania-Solid
Dartmouth College-Solid
University of Chicago-Solid</p>

<p>Johns Hopkins-Safish match</p>

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<p>Why do you even bother posting this? Congratualations about your achievements, but I have a hard time believing that someone so accomplished could be so unsure of her own chances. Either you are overly modest or are just pulling our legs.</p>

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<p>just to tell you how tough it is ( since you achieved a perfect score), there was person in my school who got a perfect score but got rejected from Yale and harvard, but was accepted to MIT. He was an Intel Semi Finalist, think, that is a huge bonus, and he still got rejected. Three others got a 2390 and were admitted to yale, another one at my school got a 2400, and was admitted to harvard. The statistics say that with a perfect score, you have a 75 percent chance at the ivy league schools and tier one colleges- anyway I wish you good luck.</p>

<p>I heard this wacky statistic that if you get a perfect ACT and SAT, you have a 95 percent chance at Harvard ( seeing that there are only 250 students who got a perfect ACT score)</p>

<p>GOOOOODDDDDD LLLLLLLLLUCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK</p>

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<p>Why do you want to go to an Ivy League school?</p>

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<p>You have good chances for an international applicant. Good Job on your achievements</p>

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The best thing that I can tell you is that your SAT 2 scores have to be at least 780s to have a good chance in getting into Harvard, yale, and Princeton.

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Why do people that don't really know post stuff like this? There is no way this is true. 700+ on 3 SAT IIs will keep you in the game. Even one 680 won't kill you. 750+ on all three is fine.</p>

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<p>i smell a troll
btw siena21345, i though harvard rejects only 50% of perfect SAT scorers according to the book 1600 perfect score : the 7 secrets of acing the SAT</p>

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<p>ats-730 verbal 690 math 710 writing total 2130
gpa 96.677777 weighted (school has weak weightings tho)
rank- 23/331
schedule-7 aps, all honors or aps including 5 yrs of a language
ecs- 12 seasons of track/XC 3 seasons as captain, DECA state champion and top 5 in state, editor in chief 3 yrs of lit mag, 2 yr editor of paper, helped found ACLU club,lots of community service, in every major honors society and VP of italian
what are my chances at the ivies and equivalent schools?</p>

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<p>Harvard does NOT accept 75% of perfect scorers. They accept around 40ish %.
"The best thing that I can tell you is that your SAT 2 scores have to be at least 780s to have a good chance in getting into Harvard, yale, and Princeton. If you take 3 SAT 2s, and score an 800 on them ( which, according to the statistics only 1/20567 achieve), then you will have around a 80 percent chance in getting into the colleges, meaning harvard, yale and princeton"</p>

<p>I completely agree with Bandit TX: Whoever posted this doesn't have a slight clue of what Ivy League/competitive admissions is about. 80% chance???? Ivy League colleges are nowadays deferring/rejecting RSI/TASP/Intel/Nationally ranked athletes and people are saying 80% with perfect scores???!!!</p>

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<p>Oh hmm I just noticed that you are applying as an international I presume since you are attending school in Mexico (overlooked as New Mexico at first). The competition then is a bit harder because your prospective schools can only take so many internationals.</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.geniusdenied.com/articles/Record.aspx?NavID=13_32&rid=11172%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.geniusdenied.com/articles/Record.aspx?NavID=13_32&rid=11172&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>This website clearly shows the fact that Harvard rejects 1 in every 4 applicants who have a perfect score. Other colleges too: Northwestern and University of Chicago have a 75 percent acceptance rate in getting in, it even says it in their brochure! </p>

<p>Please, correct me if I am wrong, and I do not want to seem to be rude. Even my guidance councelor suggested the article to me and my parents, and said that harvard has an acceptance rate of 70 percent with those with perfect scores. Although it changes from year to year, the US News and Report: Complete Guide to Colleges tells us so.</p>

<p>Anyway, correct me if you can</p>

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<p>I have read the article before, several times through. Read this one:</p>

<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Polk_Groton_Grads.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Polk_Groton_Grads.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Admissions is a crapshoot, anyway siena, you were not wrong, I only have the UChicago brochure, and it says 76 percent, not 75, anyway no difference.</p>

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<p>Why are you so worried about getting into Harvard? Its undergrad program is crap. I hear that a lot of classes are taught by grad students as opposed to professors...go somewhere else undergrad (Princeton is strictly an undergrad college) and go to harvard for grad school if you have to.</p>

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Why are you so worried about getting into Harvard? Its undergrad program is crap. I hear that a lot of classes are taught by grad students as opposed to professors...go somewhere else undergrad (Princeton is strictly an undergrad college) and go to harvard for grad school if you have to.

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Another one that knows absolutely nothing about Harvard. Harvard has a wonderful undergrad program.</p>

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Why are you so worried about getting into Harvard? Its undergrad program is crap. I hear that a lot of classes are taught by grad students as opposed to professors...

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<p>UC Berkeley would fit that description.</p>

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<p>Let's just say, if I have EXACTLY (I noe this is impossible) the same stats as Anna, with the only exception being I am from Canada and am applying for financial aid, what would my chances be???</p>

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<p>About the same....if you apply for financial aid as an international, your chances go down.</p>