gibby
August 6, 2017, 9:50pm
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Have you looked through Harvard’s Common Data Set to compare your stats to those of accepted students: https://oir.harvard.edu/files/huoir/files/harvard_cds_2014-15.pdf
For example, in section C10, notice that 95% of admitted students were in the top 10% of their graduating class. Does your GPA place you in the top 10% of your graduating class?
Also notice that in section C10, 87.41% of admitted students had an unweighted GPA of 3.75+. Here is the College Board’s conversation chart for comparison: http://www.collegeboard.com/html/academicTracker-howtoconvert.html
Based upon that information, do you think it’s worth applying keeping in mind the below?
International applicants do NOT have the same odds as US applicants. Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford and MIT (among other colleges) limit the number of international students to about 10% to 11% of an incoming freshman class. That means that Harvard admits about 160 to 190 international students per year. To see how many students from your country are currently attending Harvard, go to: http://www.hio.harvard.edu/statistics . From the pull-down menus, select STUDENTS, HARVARD COLLEGE (the undergraduate school) and YOUR COUNTRY. Be sure to divide that number by 4 to get an idea of about how many students are admitted each year from your country.
FWIW: Harvard doesn’t publish the number of applications from each country, but there could several thousands students applying to Harvard from your country in any given year for a limited number of slots. To be admitted you have to be the best-of-the-best from your country. Those are terrible odds, no matter what your stats.
Best of luck to you!