<p>just came across this: YouTube</a> - Harvard Admissions Dean Fitzsimmons Interview (On Harvard Time)
it's something like Harvard's own version of The Daily Show asking Harvard's Admission DEAN (!!) William Fitzsimmons who gets into Harvard-- and he tells us!</p>
<p>200-300 high achievers w/ international/national acclaim, 200-300 amazing academics, and 1500 or so all-arounders?! Unbelievable.</p>
<p>what do you guys think?</p>
<p>I think he forgot to mention that 17 plus percent will be recruited athletes, 20% must be black, hispanic and native American, 10% will have parents and grand parents who attended, that they need representation from all 50 states and as many countries as possible.......</p>
<p>^don't forget that many of those categories overlap...what if you were a D1 athlete Native American double legacy 2400 SAT from Alaska?</p>
<p>Sure, there's overlap, but by all reports those categories are 40% of every class.</p>
<p>regardless of whether theyre black or a legacy, they still have to have near perfect stats, this is explained by the 9.2% acceptance, theyve got plenty of legacies that they can turn down and plenty of people from puerto rico to reject, so i dont think that changes the stats of the students average academic prowess.</p>
<p>sorry hmom, i guess we were never meant to agree</p>
<p>chance me please ldridges at
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/635725-chance-me-i-will-chance-back-2.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/635725-chance-me-i-will-chance-back-2.html</a></p>
<p>doesn't Fitzsimmons specifically say there are no quotas?</p>
<p>Morgan, you can disagree, but the facts are available and you are incorrect:</p>
<p>Michele Hernandez, nationally known private college admissions consultant located in Vermont. Author of the book A is Admissions: The Insider's Guide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges and former admissions officer at Dartmouth College</p>
<p>“40 percent of every Ivy League school is filled up with special cases: athletes, minorities, low-income, legacies or development cases. They’re tagged, and schools lower the admissions standards a lot for those kids. So you got to know how to use those tags to your advantage. If you’re a legacy and you apply early to the school, you’ve got a 50 percent better chance of getting in.</p>
<p>I agree with hmom5. I have the book for the second time by Hernandez. It is fascinating, if not a bit outdated. Moreover, most of the elites are trending toward more and more diversity. That means a few (not many!) of the legacy and developmental admits will diminish.</p>
<p>Barrister, the diversity candidates actually won't displace legacies and development, just the unhooked white/asian candidates!</p>
<p>unhooked white/asian candidates?</p>
<p>Simple answer: The world's elite.....</p>
<p>the likely acceptees:
-2200+ on SATI
-2300+ SATII
-3.8+ GPA
-Presidents of atleast 3 clubs
-Captain of a sport's team
-class president</p>