What are my chances to Harvard?

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Rising Senior class of 2019
School: Private Catholic School

UWGPA: 3.95/4
WGPA: 4.2/4.5
SAT Super score -1560 800/800 Maths and 760/800 English
Will be taking three Subject SATs

Ethnicity: Asian (born in USA, Parents are from India)

AP World history(1/1 in freshman year), AP US history, AP Physics, AP Stats and Precalculus, (3/4)

B+ in AP physics. All other ubjects are A or A+

School related activities

Student Council
Elected by peers recently as a Senior Class President for Senior year
Elected by peers as a Junior Class Co Vice President Junior year

Admission Ambassador
Elected by faculties to serve as an Admissions Ambassador from sophomore year to till date

National Honors Society member

Pastoral team/Campus Ministry: Member of the pastoral team since freshman year till date. I help in organizing school/class masses, retreats, fundraising events, and help as altar server and lector in masses.

Chinese club: Serving as a class moderator for the Chinese club starting from freshman year to till date.

Poetry out loud club: Member since sophomore year. We recite/analyze poems and participate in poetry out loud competitions

Soccer

High school soccer player freshman year to Junior year/ soccer team captain during sophomore year and club travel soccer since the age of 10

Community activities

KEEN (Kids Enjoy Exercise Now) program

Volunteer - Sports Coach for kids with physical and mental disabilities once per month (~2.5 hrs/month) (sophomore year –present)

Volunteered at TASK (Team activities for special kids) during freshman summer sophomore summer (~65 hours)

Raised 400 USD as Flood relief funds to support victims of a massive flood in Chennai, India (Jan. 2016)-Freshman year

Jobs Internships

Summer student worker at the Department of Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Loui, MO (June 6th 2017 to August 6th 2017)

Piano tutor for beginner level students (August 2017-present) – 2 hrs per week

Scholarships and Awards

Received George Eastman Young Leaders Award-April, 2018 . This is awarded to one student in junior year at St. Louis University High School who has strong leadership experience at school and in the community.

Received $ 200 cash award for winning the first place in Chinese Speech contest held at Webster University on April 2018

Received National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) merit-scholarship to go to Taiwan for six weeks of language immersion during summer of junior year (June 18th to August 5th 2018). It is a merit-based scholarship awarded to high school students and recent high school graduates by US Department of State to learn less commonly taught languages in summer and academic year overseas immersion program

Selected by faculties to attend the Arrupe Leader’s Summit in California in Sophomore year

Chinese

Won several prizes in the Chinese speech contests held state level and US high school level

Finished HSKI, HSK II and HSK III exams

Poetry out loud club

Won prizes in school level and regional level

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Harvard accepted under 5% of applicants this year. While you appear to be qualified you must regard it as a big reach. There is not enough room for the school to accept all of the outstanding applicants.

I’d focus your attention on creating a solid college list that includes reach (including Harvard and other top tier schools), match, and safety schools that appear affordable (find out your parents’ budget and run the net price calculator for each school) and that you would be excited to attend. The people I see who get hurt by the college admission process are the ones who focus on one or two hyper-competitive schools and then don’t get in. Expand your horizons and recognize that there are many wonderful schools out there where you can have a great 4 year experience and get where you want to go in life.

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Thank you very much for your valuable advice!

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Congrats on your NSLI-Y acceptance! This will really help with your apps. You look like a solid applicant, but you will need to have a good balanced list. Harvard is a long shot for even the most accomplished students.

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Your stats put you in the running. It’s still a long shot just because of the numbers, so like others are saying, have some other schools you can love. Good luck!

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Are you a good enough soccer player to be consider for Div 1 recruitment? If so, contacting the coaches and discussing recruitment would be the strong hook that might make it slightly easier getting in.