<p>OP is not going through one of those Harvard phases. OP is graduating a year early from high school, and did finish freshman year, and has skipped 10th grade and gone to 11th grade. OP has published articles with a university professor, and OP got a 132 on AMC 12, but was unable to take the AIME because of illness. His practice score was 10, which would make his index way above the minimum qualification scores for USAMO. OP has visited Vanderbilt, MIT, and Princeton, and recently went to Harvard. He talked to some professors and students at these universities and just thought he would fit in to Harvard, and found this particular university to have an atmosphere and structure best suited for him. That is why OP wants to go Harvard. OP pursues intellectual activities, because he enjoys them, and not to look good on his college applications. OP only posted his other threads to see what kind of responses he would get on this website and if it was legitimate. This thread is a legitimate attempt to understand his chances at getting into the university that is best for him. He would be content going to Washington University in St. Louis or Vanderbilt University for college, but Harvard is his first choice, and that’s why he seems to be fixed on finding an exact percentage. OP realizes admissions are random, but hopes that with his accolades will enable him to become an outstanding candidate for Harvard and would like to see if others agree with this.</p>
<p>Until you have actually earned impressive accolades, your legitimacy here will continue to be in question. Check back when you have authentic credentials.</p>
<p>Phantom, the more you talk the digger you dig yourself in. To be honest, I don’t think you are a fit for Harvard. You say you pursue intellectual activities because you enjoy them, and maybe that’s true, but there’s an interpersonal skill that you completely lack. Or maybe you are a credential collector. Or maybe just a fabricator. Listen to what people are telling you, be introspective, or not; I really don’t care.</p>
<p>And if you want to know why I am angry it’s because I inquired about the prospects of recruiting you for my university and I felt a bit foolish when none of the stuff on your “prospective” resume turned out to be true. So your actions may have consequences for you yet. My advice is keep a low profile and hope that next year I forget to try to screen you out.</p>
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<p>OP, you are going through one of the Harvard phases.
If I were you, I would stop making projected stats.</p>
<p>Stop being so self-confident.
Be more humble.</p>
<p>Let me give you some stats:</p>
<p>Asian 1:
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<p>Rejected by: Harvard, Columbia, Yale
Accepted: Stanford, Oxford, Georgetown</p>
<p>No one can explain why he got rejected. Maybe he wasn’t a “Harvard fit”. Maybe the admissions officers thought he will thrive somewhere else.
Nobody’s Harvard’s fit.</p>
<p>By the way, he is the Asian Debate Champion (yes, including the population of China, he is the top debater in Asia)
Don’t forget that he had around 700 community service hours as translating diaries of North Korean refugees.</p>
<p>Asian 2: (he lives in Switzerland)</p>
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<p>Accepted: Caltech, MIT, Princeton
Rejected: Harvard.</p>
<p>Rejected: Yale SCEA, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton
Accepted: Oxford</p>
<p>Why? Nobody knows.</p>
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ORM too begin with, let’s continue.
Sure.
You are not from a feeder school, so we are not sure about your chances. But solid GPA and I assume your rank is good as well.</p>
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OK. How are you NM Finalist already?</p>
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<p>Obviously BS and you are too full of yourself.
99% grades in all classes: What the …? How can you be so sure already? Does your school practice grade inflation?</p>
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Hard to believe, but if you say so.
Is this your passion or are you just resume-padding?
Piano is irrelevant. I see that you started playing “advanced” songs! Great!</p>
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It is what you do rather than how many hours you have.</p>
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Come on. Projected Stats once again?
Research (at Vanderbilt Univesity): Chemistry for 6 months-published an article, Math for 6 months-wrote an article, USA Math Olympiad Camp (top 30 in the country), USA Physics Olympiad Camp (top 25 in the country)
Once again, PM me your name I will google you up.
Interesting how you already wrote your essays! </p>
<p>Having read my statistics, please tell me which of the three categories I seem to fit in the most. In my opinion, I am a blend of all three as I am very nerdy, and obviously love math, making a bit lopsided, but am also active in debate, sports, piano, volunteering, and even did a few jobs. Also, tell me what you think my chances would be to get into Harvard’s Class of 2017.
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<p>To be honest, if these are your real stats, you have a chance. You are not nerdy, you try hard to be. Real nerds don’t post chance threads like you.</p>
<p>"Real nerds don’t post chance threads like you. "</p>
<p>Bravo :-).</p>
<p>GP, I am inclined to trust people for their word so I believe that you actually want honest opinions on your chances. However, your tenacity of making the same thread over and over again makes us wary of your intentions. You already got useful advice from your first thread. Posting on the same forum on the same topic seems to indicate you want to flaunt your “accomplishments” in our faces. Ok, it’s a free country, go ahead. But you’re going to get a lot of flak for this. I think you already angered a H admission officer of some kind.</p>
<p>JB</p>
<p>Ok, thank you JB. I apologize if I was flaunting my resume at others, and promise that I will not post another admissions thread until I have achieved all of my goals, in about 1-1.5 years.</p>
<p>BTW, Thread terminated.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, the smartest, highest-achieving people I knew at Harvard tend to be the most modest. They don’t tell you they’re MacArthur Fellows, or what have you. I guess they assume that if you care about that kind of thing, you read about it in the NYT, and if you don’t care about it, you don’t care about it.</p>
<p>Sent from my DROIDX using CC App</p>
<p>Take the “I love helping people” out and focus on the doctor and the pursuit of medical school. As a retired Senior Cheif Navy SEAL once told me, focus on your strenghs and forget trying to be the best at everything. Seriously, dumb down your app.</p>
<p>4th Category - The kids who don’t sleep.</p>
<p>OP, I’m not sure how you plan/are able to take 8 AP classes both junior and senior year, expect to get 5s and As in all of them, take college classes while doing so, hold officer positions in like 7 different clubs, play 2 sports, and still have time to eat and sleep. Hell, I’m not even sure you could physically do all that with a 24 hour day.</p>
<p>Also, I am slightly confused…you wrote your college essays and took all your standardized tests already before junior year?</p>
<p>Flaunting with an actual profile is one thing, flaunting with a hypothetical one is quite another…</p>
<p>The OP is unbelievably self-aggrandizing. Yes, you’ll likely get into a good school but you seem to be a product of extreme praising and constant assurance of success in life. Guess what? The majority of students at Harvard are as smart, if not smarter, than you. Then what do you have to show off for when you’re just as smart as most of your peers at Harvard… it honestly doesn’t seem like much. I can’t wait for life to smack you hard in the face and you realizing that you’re not special.</p>
<p>OP agreed to go work on achieving those things earlier on this page of the thread, and not to come back to this forum until he had achieved at least some of them. We should stop piling on at this point; he didn’t fully get the message, but he took a step in the right direction and left this thread.</p>
<p>That is, if the OP isn’t a ■■■■■. My gut tells me he is, but you never know… especially on CC.</p>