What are my chances for HARVARD?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi guys, I am applying to every college I can get into, and would like to know if I have a chance with schools like Harvard, Yale, Stanford and more.</p>

<p>Senior course load: all AP/IB classes</p>

<p>SAT: 2200
Critical Reading-700
Math-800
Writing-700</p>

<p>SAT II:
Math I-800
Math II-780</p>

<p>AP Human Geography-5
AP Calculus AB-5
AP Macroeconomics-4
AP Statistics-4
AP U.S. History-4
AP English-4</p>

<p>Class Rank: 15/14000
Top 1% Valedictorian(number 1 in my school, all A's)
4.0 unweighted and around 7.0 weighted</p>

<p>Leadership Positions:
-Class President
-Breakdance Club President
-Honor Council Leader
-IB Ambassador
-Mu Alpha Theta Public Relations Committee Leader and club organizer
-Science National Honor Society Historian
-Math Competition captain for 6 years
-School dance crew leader
-Prom court(Represent class) </p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-Math Bowl, Math Counts, Mu Alpha Theta, Math League, AMC, M3 Challenge
-Tennis, Varsity, League
-Dance, Breakdance club at school
-Piano
-Art
-School leadership and improvement
-Math and Education Service project</p>

<p>Achievements:
-Math competition-1st place twice, 6th place several times, school placed, recent 5th place team and several other awards
-3rd place in school for AMC8 and 1st place in school for AMC10
-Began tutoring program at school-help kids with math for service
-Began a math and education service program
-I wrote and published a book on math education
-Yahoo answers top contributor in math, answered 1000+ math questions
-Class presidency-helped organize events
-Art-artwork featured in local high school magazine, 3 other websites
-Graphic designer for clubs
-Tennis- varisty team as a freshman, team placed 1st in league
-Learned to breakdance against parent's will and started a very successful and large club at school where we teach people how to dance, formed a crew and perform at pep rallies
-Music-several small piano awards, taught myself how to play harmonica and clarinet
-1st place in nonfiction writing contest
-Honor roll(all A's) for the past 7 years
-National Honor, Math, Science and Spanish society</p>

<p>Great teacher recommendations
Killer essay about dance</p>

<p>Please chance me!</p>

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<p>well noone will ever say youre “in” but, if there ever was someone to get into harvard, youd fit the profile</p>

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<p>Holy mother…you are the President of a class of 14000??? That is intense to say the least. Pretty impressive. I would say you are on track for not being immediately rejected. Haha I know that is not what you want to hear exactly, but when it comes to schools like these, few people are ever “in” when judging by stats alone. I think you have as good a chance as any though:)</p>

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<p>class of 14000 ;/ hmmm i’m not gonna say anything</p>

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<p>CR and W scores are too low…unless you’re an URM</p>

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<p>^ Don’t listen to CCers who say stuff like that. no offense, but SATs are really important, and yours are fine.
This is a quote from the Harvard SCEA 2016 thread. well its a quote that was quoted in there lol. from a Harvard alum and interviewer…</p>

<p>Adding a quote from what 1987Crimson said:</p>

<p>Quote:
Originally Posted by 1987Crimson
As far as “no chance”, these usually have to do with students who do not have the grades or test scores. I am the last one to say you that you need perfect grades and perfect SATs… I think a GPA in the top 10% and SATS over 2000 can make most students competitive. But people with mediocre grades (3.3 or lower) and SATs below 2100 are generally not going to be competitive.</p>

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<p>Edit: there are 14000 people in my county, not school-sorry for the misunderstanding!!!</p>

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<p>^ Yeah, haha, there is no high school in the US with that many kids.</p>

<p>I would also point out that you might want to emphasize your other interests besides math. I see that you were the president of the break dance club and have cool music and art awards. Stuff like that makes you sound cool and interesting. Places like Harvard get about a billion applications every year from Asians who have 800 math SAT Is and IIs and are AIME qualifiers. Your stats aren’t going to be as good as theirs. But you can still beat them. They want people who not only have that kind of talent, but that will add to the campus atmosphere, which I think is how you should try to sell yourself to them.</p>

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<p>KaChow, thank you for your encouragement! It just so happens that i am an asian male though! Do you think an art supplement of art slideshow and a break dance video will be convincing?</p>

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<p>You’re obviously a VERY competitive applicant, and you do offer a unique perspective by doing break dance club. I see you’ve written a book. Was is widely published? What I’m looking at is the major awards. On the whole, you’ve got a great chance somewhere between 15%-30% maybe even higher. It’s a little unnerving competing against people like you for a spot in Harvard. Did you apply SCEA? Anyway, good luck to you, though you don’t really need it. I’d appreciate it if you’d chance me.
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<p>^ Haha, yes, it’s totally fine that you are Asian, that’s not really what I mean. What I mean is, you want to show that them that you, while Asian, are not a “cookie-cutter” Asian, i.e. math genius, perfect SATs, violin or piano for their entire lives, and most importantly, not really that much else that is special. They see those all the time. What they don’t see is the math genius who break dances, does art, writes books (Did you really do that? Is that published and everything? Sounds awesome), and other things that show that you are an interesting applicant who will add to the Harvard community. </p>

<p>And yes, absolutely send in a break dance video, that would be awesome :)</p>

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<p>You need to take an SAT II in another area.</p>

<p>The Harvard website actually says,
“To satisfy our application requirements, applicants must take two SAT Subject Tests. Students should not submit two Subject Tests in mathematics to meet this requirement.”</p>

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<p>What are you planning on majoring in? If it is a math, scientific, or engineering field, consider MIT.</p>

<p>As far as Harvard, it is a crap shoot. Nothing is ever assured. Same with Yale, but you should get into Stanford. You are a solid applicant though. Best of luck to you.</p>

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<p>it looks like ur into math, harvard does not have the best math or science based competitive ranking. look into mit or ucb or other top engineering schools, unless ur into law</p>

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<p>LOLOLOLOLOLOL.</p>

<p>Good chance. This is a unique story.</p>