<p>Hey Everyone. I'm living in North Carolina and I was wondering what my chances are of getting into Harvard for the Class of 2015 (Current Senior).</p>
<p>I am the first from my family to go to college. I am 100% African American.</p>
<p>SAT: 2400
PSAT: 240 (National Merit Scholar Finalist)
ACT: 36 Composite
GPA: 4.0 Unweighted, 4.75 Weighted
AP Calc AB - 5
AP Calc BC - 5
AP Chemistry - 5
AP European History - 5
AP Biology - 5
AP Comp/Lit - 5
AP Comp Sci A - 5
AP World History - 5
AP Psych - 5
AP Economics - 5
AP Spanish - 5
AP French - 5
AP Chinese - 4 (I hope that doesn't ruin my chances!)</p>
<p>Self Studied for most of the AP Exams.</p>
<p>4 Year Varsity Football - 3 year All-American Auto - Captain 3 years
4 Year Varsity Golf - 2 year State Champ - Captain 2 years
Qualified for Amateur Tour</p>
<p>Captain of the Debate Team - 3 Years
2 TOC Championships</p>
<p>2008, 2009 International Science Fair</p>
<p>Over 1000 hours with Habitat for Humanity</p>
<p>Currently developing a mechanical heart in accordance with the US Health Dept and Johns Hopkins Medical Center.</p>
<p>Let me know what you think..if you're a parent of a Harvard student or a current Harvard student or alumni. Thank you very much!</p>
<p>I don’t know how people like you can think these posts are actually clever or funny. You didn’t even try to make it subtle that you’re just ■■■■■■■■. The “I hope this 4 doesn’t hurt my chances!” is such weak form that it makes me want to vomit. </p>
<p>0.1/10. You only get the .1 because I didn’t actually vomit.</p>
<p>There seems to be two predominant forms of ■■■■■■■■ with respect to chance threads: fatuous blatancy aimed purely at comical effect and the I-hope-I-trick-everyone variety. Yours falls into the latter category and for you to possibly get away with it in a subsequent occasion (although you have squandered your sole opportunity with the “donkeykong987321” account), you will need to lower your purported statistics and, of course, remove the parenthetical comment next to the “4” score.</p>
<p>Up until the International Science Fair stuff, this was fairly believable. Very impressive, but still believable; I’ve seen similar stats on CC.</p>
<p>However, the mechanical heart deal as well as your comment regarding the 4 on AP Chinese…mifune’s right. What a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>You get a .3 / 10 for saying what I said but using terms like “comical effect,” “squandered,” and “fatuous.” You do realize that nobody who speaks English actually says “fatuous”?</p>
<p>I see that you have fairly high standards of evaluation. Actually, “fatuous” is not completely anomalous and there’s no legitimate point to be made in viewing it as off-limits in terms of usage. </p>
<p>The whole point of language is to be understood. Less than 5% of people here know what fatuous means. I know what it means and I just think it sounds awkward. It’s a shame that the posts you make on this website are usually helpful and intelligent but it’s like gouging my eyes out with a rusty screwdriver to try to read them.</p>
<p>When you try to pick up girls, do you say:</p>
<p>“Pardon me, bearer of homozygous sex chromosomes, the efforts of examining the attendees of this camaraderie-based establishment have finally come to fruition! Forgive the use of a linking verb in my now-pedestrian discourse, but I must assert that your level of physical attractiveness is quite noteworthy, perhaps even exemplary. May I be so bold as to request, ever so respectfully, the numerical combination at which I may communicate with you utilizing my mobile communication apparatus?”</p>
<p>I don’t think this statistic would be true, to be honest. If you and I were included into the survey, there would need to be at least 39 additional individuals who are unmindful of its definition.</p>
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<p>Actually, I have posted something similar to this previously (see the below hyperlink). However, similar to your above quote, it was written with frivolous pomposity. To provide context, the thread in which this was posted was largely a discussion on writing style. The latter portion of the thread predominantly focused on a petty argument concerning the grammatical merit of the construction “mildly acquainted.”</p>
<p>Fortunately, I have never received a negative appraisal of my writing style either on high school assignments or the evaluations of two returned medium-length writing papers that I have had to complete here thus far. So until instructors/TFs begin informing me that evaluating my papers necessitates the retrieval of oxidized contraptions to facilitate the dislodgment of the sensory receptors embedded within their ocular cavities, I am not inclined to change.</p>
<p>I’ll assign you a .5/10 on that latest post, Dwight (.1 for the boisterous amusement, .3 for the splendid use of pretension, and, of course, .1 for the absence of a gastric upheaval).</p>
<p>Did you take AP English Language in high school? Did you learn anything about modes of discourse? This isn’t the same mode of discourse as academic papers, so language appropriate for the latter sounds awkward for the former. Do you speak like this out loud?</p>
<p>Yes, I don’t consider “fatuous” to be an esoteric word; I would expect the percent to be upwards of 50 (perhaps, though, some of whom are only mildly acquainted with the word). I concede that there are certainly similarly functioning descriptors that are better known, however. </p>
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<p>While, decidedly, I would not characterize his writing style as very economical, it does have great fluency: I don’t find it awkward to read.</p>
<p>Did you take AP English Language in high school? Did you learn anything about modes of discourse? This isn’t the same mode of discourse as academic papers, so language appropriate for the latter sounds awkward for the former. Do you speak like this out loud?
^ He does.
Mifune does speak like that in real life :D</p>
<p>Yes, there was rather frequent practice in each of the four basic categories of discourse.</p>
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<p>Posting on online discussion sites can often be very much unlike composing academic papers. (Also, of course, the latter portion of the quote that you selected for response was written quite facetiously.) But, then again, writing a paper for English is often a bit different from drafting a paper for history, which, in turn, is quite different from writing a scientific paper and so on. </p>
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<p>I believe so. However, when writing, one has the liberty to contemplate how to best refine the message, whether that entails revising the sentence structure, searching for a particular word, fastidious proofreading, and so forth. However, a post of a relatively short length, such as this, probably consumes merely a minute or two of my time.</p>
<p>I feel somewhat rancid for interjecting into this otherwise enlightening discussion…but…
Breaking from my typical stiff conduct on these forums…</p>
<p>Lol lol lol lol lol.</p>
<p>mifune, this is absolutely beautiful. You should write a guide on English: “How to BS Essays for High School”.<br>
I don’t mean that in a negative way; for the most part, verbosity works well with regards to the grading subjectivity of the majority of teachers, at least those whom I’ve encountered.</p>
<p>I don’t believe that would be a very sensible title. Instructors, particularly college professors, will often be very much aware if you are writing nonsense or circuitous prose (or using subtle formatting tactics) as a means of fulfilling the page requirement.</p>
(I’m a little nervous after what you posted in my Visitor Messages; how do you know me?)</p>
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