<p>Im just wondering what the perfect app. would be.
Anyone have any theories?</p>
<p><em>drum roll</em> The perfect applicant...</p>
<p>Hi, my name is Albert Einstein Jr. Do I have a shot a Harvard?</p>
<p>SAT: 2400 (800 math, 800 verbal, 800 writing)
SAT II's: 3 x 800
GPA: 4.0 UW, 5.0 W</p>
<p>Most rigorous curriculum, IB dipoma candidate who took all IB classes and self-studied all 21 AP's (all 5's)</p>
<p>Ethnicity: half native american, quarter black, quarter hispanic</p>
<p>Valedictorian of the most difficult prep school in the country, but I am only there because i got a scholarship, i am actually very poor and live on an indian reservation and i have to walk 10 miles back and forth to school every day (uphill both ways!) because my family can't afford a car</p>
<p>EC's:
Captain of 3 sports, All-American team in all three (i am being recruited for all of them)
National awards in debate, public speaking, writing, photography
Art on display in Paris, Rome, and London
RSI, TASP
International Physics Olympiad
International Math Olympiad
I have done extensive research and a few years ago i cured cancer. Now i am working on the common cold
I also participate in traditional native american tribal rituals and afterwards give motivational speeches to the young indian children about the importance of education
In my spare time i rewrite regular books in braille for blind people and store them in the library that i pressured my tribe to build and that i am currently the president of
Last year i discovered a new insect species
I also work 48 hours straight on weekends to support my very, very poor family (i have 15 younger brothers and sisters)</p>
<p>I am a first generation college student (neither parent went to college!)</p>
<p>However, my native american grandfather, Running-Bull Einstein, went to Harvard, which means i am a legacy there. He donated 500 million dollars to the college when he died.</p>
<p>My teacher recs will be excellent, since i have tutored many of them in the higher levels of their subjects</p>
<p>I am writing 3 outstanding essays:
One is about walking ten miles to school uphill every day strengthened my legs so that i eventually became the star of the all-america cross country team
The second is about how the death of my father from cancer motivated me to find the cure for cancer, and also encouraged me to step up and take care of my very large and very poor family by forgoing all sleep on weekends and working for 48 hours straight on minimum wage as a janitor at the casino on my indian reservation
The third is about why i want to go to harvard, which includes how the poverty and desperation of my native american reservation makes me want to improve everyone's life by getting educated and coming back to help these poor people while at the same time preserving their wonderful history in libraries much like the one that i run on my reservation</p>
<p>Do I have a shot at Harvard?</p>
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<p>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA</p>
<p>i think you have a shot at harvard
i'm not sure</p>
<p>yeah, maybe you'll be waitlisted..ya know, with Ivies it's a real crapshoot...hahah :)</p>
<p>However, my native american grandfather, Running-Bull Einstein, went to Harvard, which means i am a legacy there. He donated 500 million dollars to the college when he died.</p>
<p>Haha. </p>
<p>Do you have any other leadership things though? Possibly the President of every club in your school and also occasionally assists the principal?</p>
<p>no, i am worried about my lack of clubs and leadership positions! i spend so much time winning all of the awards in the world that i just don't have the time to dominate the dinky school clubs. Do you think the adcoms will hold that against me?</p>
<p>No, the adcoms won't hold your school against you. When you get rejected, it'll probably because of all your other negative qualities, like a lack of ethnic diversity. You should write your fourth essay about that. You claim to be 1/2 Native American, 1/4 Hispanic, and 1/4 Black. Well, I'm 1/2 of each, sucka -- first in my family too. Maybe if you studied a little more for the SAT you would have known about the write-your-own-questions-and-then-answer-them section on the verbal part, which is how I got my stunning 830.</p>