Who regrets applying to Harvard?

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<p>I don’t know what you are saying here. </p>

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<p>Again, not sure what relevant point you are making. You are not responding to my claims.</p>

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<p>So I gathered.</p>

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Source? Source please.</p>

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<p>^ The first statement in post #53 is a paraphrase from a Harvard admissions officer and is, quite conservatively, consistent with the other data I’ve seen (for Harvard and its peers).</p>

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<p>There are so many applications that titles become impressive- not the stuff you did (unless you upload a resume). Common Application has limited spaces.</p>

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I said any idiot in South Carolina can join meaningless clubs and make it seem impressive.
You said Harvard applicants have meaningful ECs which seem impressive.
Who cares? In the long run, they will look similar on paper.</p>

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Biccc Boiiii, thank you for providing your source.</p>

<p>Harvard and peers?
Caltech surely doesn’t.
Were you including Caltech?</p>

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<p>That’s fine, but what claim of mine does this fact contradict?</p>

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<p>That students can join meaningless clubs does not mean that they do not join meaningful clubs more so than most other students. That some students join clubs to get into college does not make them meaningless.</p>

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<p>Doesn’t what? What I said is surely true to an even greater extent at Caltech.</p>

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You are sick.</p>

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<p>^ It’s a logically correct assertion: whatever your thoughts on the validity of the motivation, students can still have productive extracurricular involvement if the reasons for their involvement are admissions-related.</p>

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It may be logically correct, you are right.
But it won’t stand out, is what I am saying.</p>

<p>Activities pursued with passion will definitely catch the adcom’s attention. (They have done this job for 20 years now, they can differentiate between admissions-related activities and true activities)</p>

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<p>(“You are sick” does not say that.)</p>

<p>They are not perfect differentiators in this respect, but, I agree, they can tell some of the time. But I still don’t see what relevant point you are making with any of this.</p>

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Biccc Boiiii… Please, relax. Yes, I understand that.
Remember to quote my entire assertion: It may be logically correct, you are right.</p>

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Bicc Boii… I disagreed with your initial statement that an average Harvard applicant would be in the top percent of the class, has meaningful EC’s, and has test scores within the 99th percentile.</p>

<p>So far, we have proved that you were wrong in two following cases:
has meaningful EC’s, and has test scores within the 99th percentile</p>

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<p>Why does the Harvard forum always attract the idiots? Silverturtle, don’t waste anymore of your time with this guy. Come back to the relative sanity of the Yale forum :)</p>

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Idiots?
You call someone with a 2390 an idiot?
I was just bringing some jest to the CC Harvard forum. It was too mundane.</p>

<p>Of course, you might think so because silverturtle has a 2400.</p>

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<p>I knew a guy who framed his rejection letter and hung it in his bathroom over the toilet !</p>

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Pretty conventional, I would say.</p>

<p>Why? So that he can feel the pump as he is taking a dump?
;)</p>

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<p>Well…I’m not sure about idiots, but the Harvard forum certainly seems to attract smart but extremely immature and arrogant high school students.</p>

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<p>I am sorry if I have left such an impression.
I was really glad about my recent agency call regarding my essay and I was engaged in a meaningful discussion with silverturtle.</p>

<p>But how would you call Biccc Boiii an immature sign?
It is a friendly sign on an anonymous forum.</p>

<p>Lighten up guys! :)</p>

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<p>Haha I lol’ed at the “biccc boiii” thing. Sounds ridiculous. </p>

<p>Why do you bring up South Carolina like that? There are idiots in New England too, and smart people in South Carolina too. </p>

<p>If you had defined the premise on which you were arguing in your initial posts then the rest would not follow. </p>

<p>SAT scores do not make anyone an idiot or a genius, more so in an anonymous forum where anyone can make any wild unfounded claim (not trying to belittle your achievements here, just saying why your argument using SAT scores is fallacious). </p>

<p>I support your call for lightening up though.</p>