<p>Rafael..if your school doesn't offer AP, they're not going to hold it against you. Take a course or two at a local community college or 4 year university if there's one near you...it will show that you wanted to take some additional challenging courses and did...and then concentrate on making a big national name for yourself! Hell, spend the time writing a book and getting it published...</p>
<p>if your school doesn't offer it you shouldn't be at that much of a disadvantage...
if it mattered that much then our school would be the only school in the Korean education system to send students to Harvard</p>
<p>I agree, jwlee8. And as I said before, I've seen too many academic stars (with AP's up the wazoo, outstanding GPA, valedictorian status, maybe even IB, be deferred or eventually rejected from highly selective schools. Obviously, they look for academic stars (I guess), but you're better off making a national name for yourself in some field, instead of worrying about AP's, IB, or outstanding grades. I'm not even sure schools are interested in scholars anymore. Just go learn a sport and do it so well, they can't turn you down...</p>
<p>community college.....but my guidance counselor said i couldn't take any courses there until i graduate high school. Do they work the same in Canada as in the US?</p>
<p>Rafael..I don't know about Canadian schools. In the U.S., a public high school student can take courses at any nearby college, and plenty get college release during the day to do it. The better case is made if, for instance, your high school doesn't offer a foreign language you want to take, and your local college does..or by 10th grade, you've etaken the highest level math courses your h.s. offers...so you have to go to the local college. If you can't get college release during the day, I would think you could simply take a course at night. Who can stop you, except the teacher teaching it? You'll need approval from the college teacher, but I didn't think there was an age requirement to take a course at a local college...</p>
<p>EA acceptees are the best and the brightest with the focus to know what they wanted. Beware, Harvard does not reject most EA applicants outright, but few get in who were not accepted in the EA round.</p>
<p>The great thing about Harvard is its commitment to affirmative action. It has many more african-americans, latinos and persons of color than any other Ivy. Yale and Princeton seem to attract white elites who run the country, as evidenced in the recent presidential campaigns,where almost everyone went to Yale, and just 1 to Harvard. Harvard therefore offers more of a chance to learn from and "rub elbows" with these minorities,who have maybe less good grades and SATs but great potential, and not just from all highly educated whites who went to top prep schools and super- public high schools. The latter have book smarts, but the minorities know things from a unique perspective.</p>
<p>go unique perspectives!</p>
<p>axfr.. actually of the 11 students that got into Harvard during the last six years at our school.. (we're an intl school w/ a separate "study abroad" class that has abt 40 students per grade.) not any one of them had no.2 or 3. some really fell behind category 1. there were two 1400s, and one this years had more than 10 Bs throughout his/her high school career, all 600s SAT2s etc. of course, some had 1600 and 5 800s and was valedictorian of the school.. really no one can say i think whether one has a chance.. unless u are seamlessly good at everything</p>
<p>Jwlee daewon hakseng?;;</p>
<p>if your school doesn't offer APs, but you do for example 7 or 8 of them.. they'll like it. (Although this is sth I can't understand.. when the regular school curriculum is more difficult than the APs themselves, how can doing more APs be a display of academic ability?) You need 1550+ SATs in order for teh APs to work.. (as far as I've seen..for example one got into Princeton with such stats while another with almost perfect SAT scores got deferred; both weak extras and essays. and a low SAT1 with 8 APs (all 5s except for one) didn't work even for columbia.) not that it's a rule or anything.. just saying that it's important not to neglect other things for the AP. "Who gets into Harvard EA?" wehll.. personally I was among the thousands deferred.. (got the latter part of the SATs but only 2 APs;;;;just average extracurriculars) and am not expecting acceptance in regular either. some that were accepted were academically perfect, but some were not-so-perfect (sometimes quite bad) students but came up with sth that at least looked special.</p>
<p>asdfas: tsk, tsk, writing in korean (2 posts before)... not that you're writing anything private.</p>
<p>"daewon hakseng"</p>
<p>could someone kindly translate? does that mean "How are you/hi/etc." or something?</p>
<p>Who gets into Harvard EA?</p>
<p>I've been wondering about that. Two people I know who SHOULD have gotten into Harvard didn't. My other friend did and we're going to be partying it up in B'ton next year (Wellesley girl here) but I just don't get it. These two people were awesome. The best of the best. This other guy I know who DID get in didn't deserve it at all. It seemed completly random and actually made me really mad. I wanted to shake Harvard and try to make them see that they were admitting a complete brain dead a**hole instead of two other people who were just incredible. Well Harvard will be sorry when my two deferred friends go on and win noble prizes and say "I thank Yale/Princeton/Stanford/MIT"...That was totally a rant, but I'm still mad for them.</p>
<p>skepticalsenior-I see your frustration, some of my friends have been equally boned at schools like Harvard. It's really hard to make your personality come through on your application (especially because teachers seem to write glowing recs for most everyone). Anyway, I somehow got lucky and made it... so here's to Boston (long island iced) Tea Parties.</p>
<p>lol good luck with the Boston (long island iced) Tea Parties...they are good at checking fake IDs up there...when I was in town for the Dem Convention, my friend got hers confiscated</p>
<p>you know who gets in EA? People being recruited for sports (and you don't have to be that smart, either, as long as you're good at the sport.)</p>
<p>Check this story. (You'll have to register, but its interesting.)</p>
<p>1,280 is good enough if you're all-state from Texas!</p>
<p>Seems like a nice guy.</p>
<p>JAck, that's a pretty interesting comment,"I'm not so sure schools are interested in scholars anymore...go learn a sport..." I've come to the same conclusion through this process. There are plenty of scholars to go around and not even enough Ivy and near-Ivy seats for the top half one percent of SAT scorers. Somethings gotta give...access to intellectual resources should not be left to the laws of supply and demand. Why don't these schools spend some of their endowment money to expand enrollment? It is in the national interet to allow more smart people access to the richest intellectual resources. All scholars should be accomodated, period. THEN fill the teams! You can't have athletes with 1200's scooting by kids with a plate of AP's and 1500+'s. It lessens their credibility.</p>