This book doesn’t look so legit. In the first few pages, it said that if you have 700+ (it could have been 750+) on SAT Is and IIs, atleast 3 APs with 4s or 5s, and are ranked 1 or 2, you are a “virtual lock for admission.” As we all know, this is simply not true. TAKE A LOOK AT THE STAT ROSTERS/DECISIONS FROM THIS WEBSITE!
Did anyone read this book or want to comment on this?
<p>wheres the website</p>
<p>I meant "THIS" website, as in collegeconfidential.com.</p>
<p>I heard once that Harvard ranks its applicants from 1-6 (1 is the best). A 1 involves class rank of 1 or 2 & 700+ on all standardized tests. But I agree that does not mean he/she is a lock for admission.</p>
<p>I don't think that anyone is a lock at any of the HYPSM's. Maybe a URM with a 4.0 and perfect SAT and SAT II's who has won an Olympic Gold Medal.</p>
<p>"I heard once that Harvard ranks its applicants from 1-6 (1 is the best). A 1 involves class rank of 1 or 2 & 700+ on all standardized tests."</p>
<p>I believe in "A is for Admissions," such credentials would only give you a score of 3 on the 1-5 scale. That's because those with the score 1 have credentials like Westinghouse finalist or other rare and prestigious academic distinctions, and those with score 2 are probably national merit finalists. Being #1 with a 1500 doesn't tell me anything, and is unfortunately "average" or "lacking" to be admitted. Of course, being #1 with a 1500 in addition to other accomplishments and/or qualities would be a different story.</p>
<p>haha...i read and followed everything in the "truth about getting into harvard" book...rejected at HYP</p>
<p>Wow.. You have amazing stats, applied EA, and followed the book AND were still rejected!</p>
<p>whats ur stats?</p>
<p>thanks, killaerone! :)
here are my stats...
4.0 UW GPA (school doesn't weight); 1/122; 1560 SAT (v. 760 m. 800); SAT II's 800/790/770/770/760; toughest courseload of any person to graduate from my school, including 8 AP's (5 on three of the tests); excellent recs and essay; National Merit Scholar; Presidential-Scholar semi-finalist; NCTE writing award winner; AP Scholar with Honor; national award winner in FBLA; 500+ hours of volunteering in a hospital; regional officer for French club; interviewer said "you're just the type of person we're looking for"...tons of EC's and much dedication to each (15 leadership positions over 4 years of high school, including 3 as Pres and 1 as founder/head coordinator, 1 as editor); speak four languages, including one that was self-taught; self-taught dancer; resident of the poorly represented state of LA...also applied EA to harvard...deferred then rejected; rejected at Yale; waitlisted then rejected at Princeton</p>
<p>thats ok ur too good for HYP....where r u ending up?</p>
<p>haha, thanks! i have no regret about not getting into any of them, even though i was once dying to go to harvard...i'm going to the university of pennsylvania!
give it up for fighting quakers of '09!!! :)</p>
<p>UPENN! Great job- screw Harvard!</p>
<p>I'll probably apply ED to Penn. It's such a nice school.</p>
<p>i have a possible explanation for your rejection. Either your school/ gc mishandled your app, or your teacher recommendations were too general and had the "bad words" that HYP look at. It happened at my friends school: 1600 SAT, valedictorian from competitive high school, presidents scholar, national merit, etc. (much better than valedictorians from nearby high schools) and was only accepted at Brown and Cornell. Turns out their guidance counselor had made so many errors in her report (like putting unweighted GPA when asked for weighted) that it probably cost him.</p>
<p>She's an ORM :p</p>
<p>that reminds me of the movie Orange County</p>
<p>so true, sucharita! :)<br>
i'm not sure, desiboy...i saw everything before they sent it out, and my school doesn't do weighted GPA/rank...what are the "bad" words...i don't think they had any of those, though--at least not the ones that my teachers let me read</p>
<p>Maybe you were rejected because each school assumed you'd take Harvard and their yield would drop. Maybe it was just geographics--already too many acceptances from LA.</p>
<p>possibly, Longhorn...my P interviewer asked me if I had applied to HY and said that they were the schools that P lost so many admitted students to...
i doubt it was too many acceptances from LA, though, seeing as very few people from Louisiana apply to start with</p>
<p>wow, LAgirl! How'd you do all of that and teach yourself a language? :O oh my!!</p>