<p>Harvard bound students-
Do you have any tips about your journey to harvard that you would like to share? thanks</p>
<p>You might get better responses if you ask specific questions. There are a few current Harvard students lurking about (myself included) but it’s hard for us to just give “tips” in general.</p>
<p>Sorry, i guess i was a bit vague. How did your extracurricular activities impress Harvard?
Did you take all honors/AP in high school? Is it true that one A- or B could totally ruin your chalenges? Anything along the lines of that. Im gonna be a high school freshman next year, and i really want to go to Harvard, Stanford, or MIT. Here’s my schedule</p>
<p>Honors English
AP Human Geography
Honors Biology
Honors Geometry
Gym
Spanish
Orchestra
Again, sorry for being so vague. Thanks!</p>
<p>You don’t need a 4.0 to get into Harvard lol. One B won’t “ruin your chances.”</p>
<p>You don’t need to take all honors/AP but schools like Harvard consider academic rigor “Very important” so you should take challenging classes. </p>
<p>You’re going to be a high school freshman? Get off CC for a few years. You’ll be a totally different person senior year than you are now and your school choices may (probably will) change. </p>
<p>Basically, do you best, take challenging classes, and do ECs that you love. But get off CC and enjoy high school too!</p>
<p>And while you’re at it, your citing H, S and MIT betrays your current lack of knowledge about great colleges. Don’t fetishize the names/prestige thing. It’s rather superficial.</p>
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<p>On my journey to Harvard, I hit more traffic around Indianapolis than you might expect. But that was in 1981, so it might be better by now. Oh, was that not quite what you meant?</p>
<p>To be more serious, “I am going into the ninth (or eighth or seventh) grade. What do I need to do to get into Harvard (or MIT or Stanford)?” is usually not a well received question on College Confidential. Really, you cannot do anything to ensure that you’ll get into Harvard, MIT or Stanford. They just have too many highly qualified applicants.</p>
<p>I agree with T26E4 that while you’re in high school, you need to expand your thinking. In part, you need to do this because Harvard, MIT and Stanford are just too unpredictable. And in part, you need to do this because America is a huge country, and we have more than just a few extraordinary universities where you can get both a first-rate education and a life-changing experience.</p>
<p>I also think there are some things you can do from the beginning of high school to make sure that you’re in the running for top colleges when the time comes. I don’t want to type it all out again, though, so I suggest you look here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1370711-harvard.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1370711-harvard.html</a>.</p>