What are my chances of getting into Harvard?
Posted Monday, July 6, 2009 by admin
I’m a 16-year- old junior from Texas. I’m homeschooled but have taken 4 classes at my local community college and will take 12 next year. I hope to take 5 ap tests this summer. I have not taken any subject tests yet but I plan to take some this Spring. I have a 2250 on the SAT (I just got my scores back). I have a 4.0 GPA from my co-op (where a lot of homeschoolers come together to learn from homeschool moms who are educated on the subject they teach) and a 4.0 from the community college, having taken arabic 1 & 2, algebra, and US history. I got a 214 on the PSAT so I might also be a national merit scholar. I’m in the homeschool national honor society (Eta Sigma Aplha) and I hope to become the Community Service Organizer. I’m trying to earn the congressional bronze medal. I am the co-president of my debate team and mentor newbie debaters. I also am a regional champion in debate. I participate in the Model UN, specifically the Harvard Model UN and the Texas Model UN, as the president of the homeschool UN club. I participate in boy scouts and hope to get eagle. I have been a scribe and a patrol leader, having won best booth in show at a scout show and wining the national honor patrol award and the troop honor patrol award. I play varsity tennis. I am the editor of my troop’s newsletter. I am in my church’s choir and am president of the boy’s choir. I am the founder and editor of my co-ops yearbook with around 200 kids. I am also the president of my co-ops model congress club. During the summer, I participate in debate camp, boy scout camp, my church’s vbs, and i travel alot, usually to egypt to immerse myself in arabic. I used to have a jobas my church’s av operator, but then I started doing it for free. Which brings me to my volunteer work. Besides all the stuff I do for scouts and the honor society, I am the reader for my church, as well as a sunday school helper. I;ve gone on 7 mission trips with my church to help deaf children in rio bravo mexico. I campaigned for John McCain for 3 hours, tuesdays and thursday, for 5 weeks, and I volunteer at a homeless shelter every month for 5 hours. I think that’s it. What do you think?
oh, also, I’ll be interning for my congressman this summer.
Harvard is always looking for diversity, but it is so hard to get in, as your well aware. I don’t think anyone’s chances are ever better then 50/50.
Its a crapshoot but I would get my SAT scores higher and then you would have more of a shot. Your qualified at least
I agree that it’s always a crap shoot.
I think you should be confident that you’ve done everything you can do and enjoyed yourself along the way.
You’re absolutely 100% qualified but so are so many other people.
Just don’t forget that a college doesn’t define your life or the type of person you are, it’s not the end of the world if you don’t get in.
I know someone who turned down Harvard for Rice University and he’s very happy now.
Best of luck anyways
I think it’s pretty unlikely that anyone who worked for John McCain’s campaign would be happy in the heartland of True-Blue Liberal Massachusetts (where McCain was defeated by 2:1 across the whole state and closer to 3:1 in the immediate neighborhood of Harvard).
Harvard and other elite schools do admit some home-schooled kids, and your good SAT score will help validate your home-school grades. But you need much more than a 4.0 and some local church activities to get a seat at Harvard where last year they turned down over 2000 Valedictorians, according to one news account.
You have some chances to make yourself stand out… what can you do to show that you are not just a grind… that these extracurricular activities have some real depth to them. You need some kind of National distinction.
undah2, The best method to find out info is to contact a student. You can start looking for contact information for Texas colleges here. The students always to know what’s going on since they spend so much time on campus.