What are my chances of getting into Harvard?
Posted Friday, July 17, 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.
Okay, sorry about the punctuation, grammar, spelling format, etc. I guess I thought it didn’t matter on Yahoo! answers. I stand corrected. If you really can’t bear the formatting, tell me and I can correct it.
Also, I’m not really falling for the “conservatives won’t like Harvard” bit. Bill O’ ‘Reilly went there. So did George Bush. Just saying…
i think you’ll get in
4.0 is good, but you want like a perfect SAT, else no no luck. I’d say 1/1000000.
You don’t know how to properly formulate your ideas into paragraphs….so it’s unlikely.
Liberal universities like Harvard are also not going to look kindly on your support of anti-change people like McCain. That’s going to hurt you.
Almost a sure thing. You are well rounded enough, and your grades and scores are adequate.
It will just depend on the competition from other students this year.
Your SAT scores are about Average for those who apply to Harvard — as is everything else on your list. Harvard rejects about seven qualified applicants for everyone they accept, so I put your chances at 12.5%
The person who said that the biggest obstacle to getting into Harvard is affording doesn’t know what he is talking about. Harvard offers very generous aid packages — to the point where the average Harvard student pays less in tuition than the average student at a top public university.
I have faith that you will get in.
No one is a shoe in to Harvard. Harvard only accepts 9% of all applications. And there is only 2000 spots for incoming freshman. They will get over 19,000 applications in.
So that doesn’t mean don’t apply, it means you better have some backup colleges you apply to also.
Hey, maybe instead of going to a place where you are average. Why don’t you go to a place where you would dominate and stand out?
To be honest those are some great stats and you could for sure get into Harvard College, but at the same time there is a chance you may not get in because the other people applying to Harvard are just like you most likely and some may even have higher SAT scores. So since I am not an admissions representative from Harvard I can not give you an exact percent of chance, but I think you do have a shot. Hope this helped, Good Luck, God Bless, and Have a Good Day.
I’d agree your chance is as good as anyone else applying. However, to echo another poster here, learn to write effectively!
The use of paragraphs and capitalization are important. You have a good resume but you come across as a drop out. If this came across a desk in academia or the business world it would in the trash by the third line.
You have a good shot, but so many people have the same stats and don’t get in. You need something special that no one else has. It may be like going to Africa and helping little kids with AIDS. You just need something that no one else has. There are people with perfect GPA’s and SATS and still don’t get in. If you don’t get in, I wouldn’t feel too bad. I would just go in with a positive attitude. Also, don’t worry about your spelling on Y!A. I never do, and people always make mean comments. I mean common were on the internet, lol. Good Luck!