collgelover

hey guys I'm sure you've already done a ton of these but, please chance me for harvard? or if i don't fit harvard what colleges do you think i could get into ( yale, brown,etc)

African American Female( African born):

GPA: unweighted: 3.96, weighted: 4.8

rank: they don't rank

AP's: US history( 5), AP Chemistry ( 5), AP french( 5), AP psychology(5), AP physics( 4), AP calc AB(4)

SAT I: 2380

SAT II: Math level 1- 760, physics- 780, French-800

EC's:

Vice President of Science olympiad
Cross-country
National Honor's Society
Drama Club
Secretary of Young Democrats club
symphonic orchestra( I also do youth orchestra, competitively)

Recommendations/interviews:
I'm hoping they'll be good

Community Service hours: 300+

collgelover

national achievement/merit

PerfectSATScorer

I have never seen 2,380 Scorer who makes such grammatical errors..

isyemky

@PerfectSATscorer. Why be supercilious?

herewegonow

You have an above average chance. You obviously have great SAT scores and being AA is pretty much a guarantee.

Hockeydude664

^Did you score the 2380 first try or no?

exultationsy

But I would like to clarify that "above average chance" still sometimes puts one at a <10% chance, given how low the "average chance" is.

FWIW, I can't imagine anything that could matter less for admissions than whether the 2380 was first try, second try, or superscored.

PerfectSATScorer

OP is a troll

uk2066

Why are you asking high school students to chance you? They are candidates too and have no special insights (and many say a lot of nonsense, if I may say so). Frankly, the entire concept is idiotic. Apply and find out.

lcedcoffeee

@uk2066
There are several very well informed parents on the Harvard forum who have insightful analyses of an applicant's chances. Also, there are a handful of current Harvard students who are curious at what the future incoming freshman class is like. I find the advice of both groups to be very thoughtful. Seeing how the majority of chance threads here are for incoming seniors, there is actually a plethora of things an applicant can do to increase his/her chances from now till the application deadline January 1 2013, if not even further in the school year. To illustrate, 2 weeks before decisions were released this year, I sent an update to Harvard on some of my recent science and math awards that I had accrued in the second semester of my senior year. If I had been a borderline admitted or waitlist applicant, those updates would have tilted the decision in my favor.

OP, I understand that you are applying to several Ivies besides Harvard. On paper, your stats and extracurriculars indicate you are a good fit for the Harvard community intellectually and socially . However, admissions officers might wonder how Harvard appeals to you, and why you would choose Harvard over say, Yale and Brown. What do you plan to study, and why Harvard? You don't have to answer us here on the forum--these are simply topics you should consider when writing essays or during the interview.