<p>Yeah, I was going to change it to adversity, but I wasn’t able to edit my post and I figured that futility would get the point across just as effectively. Guess not :X. </p>
<p>Anyway, to stay on topic. People who do overcome immense amounts of adversity are the most likely to get into Harvard. I mean everyone who tries to go to Harvard competitively already could be considered an “overachiever” or “passionate” so to say just be passionate is kind of a waste.</p>
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<p>My mistake, though in all fairness “futility” wasn’t exactly the ideal word choice.</p>
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<p>You’d be surprised …</p>
<p>Being able to be articulate and intelligent about the things that you’re passionate about is more rare than you might expect.</p>
<p>(Source: A year of doing Harvard admissions interviews)</p>
<p>Virtually anything that potentially adds big money to its multibillion dollar hoard of endowment ^^</p>
<p>^ Weirdly enough, this is quite true. They essentially want the future leaders of the financial and political world.</p>