Transferring to Harvard is Impossible to Determine

Transfer Students
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<p>After trolling on these boards for a few days, I've come to the conclusion that determining your chances to transfer to Harvard is impossible. When they're accepting only 85 out of 1,000 applicants who come from a self-selecting group that mostly thinks they can have a crack at it; transferring to harvard is a crapshoot. My advisor told me I have a good chance at getting in. I think the man's on crack.</p>

<p>I have around a 3.6 freshman 1st semester at CMU and a 89 average from bronx science in nyc; i have a 2000 on my sats. Although I have a writing award, and an interesting background story, this man is crazy. </p>

<p>He claims that Harvard dosen't care about your GPA/SATs as long as they're decent but really cares about how you think in your essays, background,etc. Is this **** true or is he just stroking my ego?</p>

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<p>well I personally know a guy with a 3.5 GPA with a decent SAT (1450 before the new SAT came out) in high school but got in to Harvard cuz he wrote an extremely stellar essay explaining why he wasn't able to achieve his full potential in his academics (he was also a minority) and the hardships he had to go through (and yeah, his life would make a good novel).</p>

<p>so I guess the essay does play a signficant role in the Harvard Admission.
But I'm not really sure about the Transfer Admission...</p>