<p>Because a similar thread on the University of Chicago board was just too much fun, let's try its counterpart on the Harvard board.</p>
<p>What is the absolute worst thing to put on your Harvard application?</p>
<p>In the essay:</p>
<p>blah blah blah......and that's why I want to go to Yale.</p>
<p>hahaha that would be bad.</p>
<p>I got a 36 on my ACT and a 2400 on my SAT and I took all the AP exams and got 5's on all of them. I took 8 AP classes each year of high school. I took the IB exams for fun and got the highest score on those too. Since I was bored, I took all the SATII's and scored 800s on all of them. I also had straight A's in each year of high school, with a cumulative GPA of 4.9 and a rank of 1/1000. And that's why I want to go to Harvard, cuz I'm a G!</p>
<p>"Harvard is an absolute fit for me. In each and every aspect of both of our lives, we are the best. No joke: I am seriously awesome. In between writing for the New York Times (as a paid columnist) and synthesizing oil from rain, I like to drive around the city, handing out $100 bills to every homeless person I see. My beauty in flesh is reflective of the beauty of my mind. I was recently named both Miss Teen USA and Mr. Universe (go figure).</p>
<p>But perhaps my greatest strength is my humility..."</p>
<p>Sending in a couple works of fingerpainting as part of an art supplement should help your application a ton</p>
<p>haha saying something like the following </p>
<p>well like ok see my dad went there and my mom and my grandfather and like my entire family. Also my role model went there elle woods from legally blonde you know. I Also have great extra activitites and i have an awsome beyond awsome gpa. Not accepting me would be the worst thing possible for the campus at Harvard because i am soo talented and above all, beautiful. I have also fed the homeless and i take the hardest classes possibly offered at my school. I strive to work hard and dont worry i wont be needing any money to attend. </p>
<p>only a dimwit
lol</p>
<p>market state : </p>
<p>ure's cracked me up lol</p>
<p>send in a blank check signed by your rich daddy</p>
<p>haha you think that would ensure my chances lol</p>
<p>man, some of these are great!</p>
<p>Don't pull anything STUPID! DUH!? It's common sense?</p>
<p>Accidentally putting a score from an AP exam as your ACT score.</p>
<p>telling them that youre in the mafia and you know where they live.</p>
<p>I plagiarized this essay. </p>
<p>Or</p>
<p>My name is Gina Grant. I killed my mom, but you don't know about that.</p>
<p>Haha, well, I know this doesn't directly relate to the topic, but lingbo's post just reminded me about it. My classmate put a random sentence in the middle of his essay for english. It was something along the lines of "and the octopus found the banana". And he still got a 7/7. Shows just how much my 10th grade english teacher paid attention to our essays.</p>
<p>How about something like:</p>
<p>"I'm really interested in having Robert Langdon as a professor, he seemed wonderful in his book The Da Vinci Code!!! I'm even considering a possible major in symbology because of him!"</p>
<p>Describing yourself as a serial killer/gang member/raging alcoholic/drug addict/child abuser probably wouldn't help either.</p>
<p>stating "pornography" as an EC, 20 hrs+week, 7-12 grade</p>
<p>oh, and adore vintage, one of my "smart" friends (smart as in the teacher thinks highly of her) put the lyrics to a beatles song for an APUSH short answer . She got a 5/5</p>
<p>Hahahaha this thread is hilarious. A girl from our school applied to Harvard last year because her dad was alumni (she really didn't want to apply though and stood absolutely no chance) and she wrote her entire essay about how she was so beautiful that nobody ever took her seriously and that how since at Harvard there are no pretty people (besides Elle Woods of course) she would be royalty and finally taken seriously.</p>
<p>Needless to say her plan worked.</p>
<p>The worst thing? A passionate essay about how the Jews, Mexicans, Poles, Lithuanians, Nigerians, and Irish are ruining America, except that they all make good gardeners, cooks and janitors. That should do it...</p>
<p>j07 - that's HILARIOUS. She should have called up admissions afterwards just so she could have a laugh with the adcoms...</p>