<p>one of the guys from my school got accepted into Harvard EA this year. he completed record amount of AP exams/courses in my school (in canada). he completed AP's since grade 9 - really impressive considering my school starts offering 2 AP courses normally in grade 11, then more in grade 12, and on top of that, he was #2 out of his grade this year. he was really involved with Model UN and received awards there (honourable mentions, awards, etc.. he's been invited to come back next yr after he enters university) - he was an excellent debater and was involved in internationalism. he also won colours (kind of like MVP) for varsity sports. he also won LOTS of competitions - bio, math, etc. his community service work was also exceptional from what i heard - he worked with various groups, mainly redcross (some leadership from that), i believe. he was also our academic prefect (leadership) as well as a biology TA. apparently, he got 1600 for his PSATs, so i believe he got 1500+ for his SATs as well. for his essay, he apparently wrote 3-5 different versions. GPA was 4.0 (unweighted) and he was indian american. i heard that he always went to academic programs during summer vacations. i guess he was an all around student. i can't say more.. except he seemed like a guy who didn't just try hard and get into as many ECs as possible to get into an elite school, but someone who was actually passionate about all of the things that he did.</p>
<p>surprisingly, he got waitlisted in princeton.
not that he cared.. he went to harvard anyway.</p>
<p>To speak perfectly candidly, I've been reading through many of the stats on this page and I have begun to panick. To hear the horror of those who have not been accepted with freakishly good applications makes me fear submitting my own. So in that vein of discussion, I am just curious to hear an objective/insider perspective on my chances. I have a 3.8 unweighted GPA (4.3 weighted), 2200 SATs, President of my JSA (Junior Statesmen of America) chapter, possibly will be chief of staff for our lieutenant gov. in Norcal (find out l8r this summer), interning for Senator Boxer, and fairly involved with a local food bank; currently I am at Stanford taking Macroeconomics and Political Communication and in the fall I am taking Microeconomics at the Local college (I plan on being an econ major). Unfortunately though my grades have only become perfect this last year (my junior year) after I found out I had ADHD. My grades were not bad before, but I def got a few Bs. Anyway, this was a lot of rambling about something fairly petty, but I'm doing it anyway. Thanks to anyone that can be of any help :)</p>
<p>^^^ asian? hah. you might as well be white for the amount of good that's going to do you ;) but if you're worried, you could always move to Wyoming before applying.</p>
<p>i didnt applied EA.... (did that for Stanford and got deferred then rejected) but I applied RD:</p>
<p>1480 SATI
800/790/720</p>
<p>3.86 uw gpa</p>
<p>ASIAN MALE (chinese)
held many leadership positions in clubs and such
had great recommendations
first generation college student, immigrant </p>
<p>Accepted @ HYPM all RD </p>
<p>... obviously, they dont take just super-geniuses, normal kids like me also get in..... actually, at my high school, we had 3 HYP cross-admits, another 2 additional Yale and another Harvard admit. And I would consider all of these just normal kids...... (oddly enough my H.S. has a great placement rate...... 8 to penn, 8 to brown, 4 to yale, 2 to harvard, 3 to MIT.... even though it has a horrible "ranking" (quite a bit of violence, drugs, etc.) )</p>
<p>People who claim that EA applicants are more qualified have not, in general, "shown the work" to evidence that point, while some rather thorough researchers who claim that both EA and ED confer an admissions advantage have shown their work. (Byerly can cite the book on the subject, which I have read after checking it out from my friendly public library.) </p>
<p>To me, the weight of plausibility is on the side of figuring that a college will regard an applicant who has made an ED (other colleges) or SCEA (Harvard) application as a sincerely interested applicant, one who has already thought out which college is that applicant's favorite college. I would expect such applicants, by the time EA applicants who are deferred to the RD round are considered, to fare better in admissions, stats being equal, than applicants who applied only in the RD round (who may or may not have applied early somewhere else without immediate success).</p>
<p>Hi pals,
I seriously need your advice on applying EA. I'm international (Vietnamese), average GPA & SAT IIs, good SAT I, will apply for FULL fin.aid (parental contribution = 0). Now, the question is: Which school should I apply Early to, Harvard, Princeton or Yale?
I will definitely follow your advice, since no one else I know can help at all. A lot of thanks:)</p>
<p>Harvard and Princeton defer a lot of people, but those deferred are very unlikely to get in RD. Yale defers few people, but those deferred are admitted at a rate about equal to the EA rate.</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Stanford and Columbia ALL filled a curiously identical 49% of their freshman classes from the early pool (either EA or ED, originally, or as deferees in the RD pool.)</p>