Why are you so worried about what someone else did?
@JustOneDad I’m not worried at all. I think people might just be blowing it up to be what it’s not. I mainly asked because I wanted to know if other people have heard of these rare cases. I could care less where she goes or what she does, as long as she is happy.
Why are you concerned about her happiness?
I’ll simply ask her tomorrow at school and report back. I honestly didn’t expect this to get so many comments.
@JustOneDad Because I want her to live a happy life? Look, I’m not trying to argue. This has gotten out of hand. I guess I phrased the statement wrong at the beginning and for that I’m sorry.
Ask her when she found out she was accepted. But I can tell you now that unless your school regularly gets HYP type admits, that the administration would have been crowing about it. C’mon… has this girl been the academic superstar your entire HS career? Of course not. She’s lying.
Harvard admissions just didn’t have a brain fart.
If your school has Naviance, depending on how they set it up, you may be able to see what the stats of the accepted students are for this year and prior years. Sometimes they show the highest and lowest gpas and standardized test scores.
I’m not trying to argue, either. I’m trying to help you see that there is no value in worrying about what other people have “gotten”. It’s all about you. The others are not you and have no bearing on you.
@Jackluzzy: Every year kids lie about the colleges they were accepted to. And every year on College Confidential someone posts a “What the heck Harvard” kind of thread only to come back in a month and say the kid was lying.
Use common sense: An ACT of 23, which translates to a 1600 SAT, is too low for a recruited football player or basketball player at Harvard, so it’s too low for an academic applicant.
Look at last year’s freshman class survey and the chart that compares SAT and GPA. The lowest reported SAT score was a 1732: http://features.thecrimson.com/2014/freshman-survey/admissions. Give it a month and you’ll see the kid is matriculating to another college and maybe the reason given was that Harvard didn’t give her enough financial aid. It’s an old ruse, that get’s older every year.
Gibby brings up a good point: a 23 isn’t going to cut it for a recruited athlete. As others suggest, she’s probably lying. Alternatively, there might be some miscommunication; the 23 might have actually even a 33.
There’s something wrong with the graph n the Crimson article. It isn’t possible to score 1732 on the SAT.
Another solution is this @JackLuzzy. You said you attend an under-resourced Chicago HS. If that’s the case, then it’s likely that your HS hasn’t had an Ivy admit in many many years, if ever.
Tell your guidance counselor the “rumor” that’s going around and let him/her know how discouraging it is for that kind of stuff to be floating around the school – it diminishes the work of all the hard students and makes the counselor staff look like idiots too – just because of this one student’s selfish lie. And your GC’s reaction will confirm to you everything you want to know.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the girl gets spoken to by a faculty member.
If I recall correctly, scores and GPAs are self-reported, and thus, subject to all associated problems of self-reports.
@T26E4 You might be right about having very little kids get into Ivy schools. I do know that one of my friends is going to Princeston with a full ride scholarship(it’s not Princeston that’s supplying the scholarship). He also goes to my HS. However, I found out the truth about this whole thing. She did NOT get into Harvard, nor did she start the rumors. What had happened was a couple months ago, she had stated on her FB wall that she was applying to Harvard. About a month ago, on one of her college related posts, someone asked her if she had gotten in to Harvard. Someone replied to that comment saying “Of course she did!” That kid who replied “Of course she did” does not go to our school. Because no one knew him, they assumed he was telling the truth, as they though he might be her uncle or possibly her cousin. This is what got the rumor started. The girl didn’t bother to respond to the question asked, so I guess people thought that the “Of course you did!” guy was telling the truth.
Glad it’s a happy ending, then – no nefarious characters on your end or Harvard’s admissions officers breathing in too much pure oxygen. Thnx for the update, JL