<p>I just read the '' How to get into Harvard '' book . It totally appalled me . I mean the kids who got in were certainly good , had good extracurriculars but they weren't stars . No young geniuses . No Pulitzer winners .
I mean what does it make them choose those students instead of others ?
What do you need to have ? What's gonna blew admission officers' minds ?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t rely on a book on how to get into Harvard. I’m pretty sure there were some young geniuses that attended Harvard before.</p>
<p>Lol yes but that can happen in any university , plus the book was written by the harvard crimson …</p>
<p>You need the same stuff that any other admissions book will tell you: amazing grades, scores, essays, recommendations, and ECs. The reason you didn’t notice any wonder-kids in the book was because such child prodigies number in the tens or twenties in the entire US, while around 2000 kids get into Harvard each year. The book is obviously not going to focus on child geniuses because that’s an extremely small sample size and there’s really no advice you can give them.</p>