[ b]Objective:**
SAT I (breakdown): 2400
ACT (breakdown):NA
SAT II (place score in parentheses): Bio 800, Math 2 800, Lit 800
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 87% in grade 9, 93% in grade 10, 99% CURRENTLY in grade 11
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):1
AP (5s on all):
Self-Studied:
AP Lit
AP Lang
AP Macroecon
AP Microecon
School:
AP Calculus
AP Physics 1
IB (place score in parentheses): NA
Senior Year Course Load(as planned for next year, i am in grade 11 right now):
AP Bio
AP Physics
AP Chem
Lab Course(mandatory)
Enriched English
Writers Craft
Accounting-university level
Major Awards (all first places):
DECA International
International Medical Competition
National Math Competition
National Brain Bee
National Physics Competition
[ b]Subjective:**
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses):
English:
Literary Society (President/Founder)
Playwrights Group (President/Founder)
School Newspaper (Editor-in-Chief/Founder)
Math:
Math Research at World’s Top 20 University
Business:
DECA (President)
Robotics Team Business Lead
Misc
Debate(President/Founder)
Student Rights Advocacy Group (President/Founder)
School Theater (lead)
Job/Work Experience:
Dishwasher (Summer)
Volunteer/Community Service:
Youth Engagement Coordinator - delivering medical supplies to countries where they are needed
Summer Activities:
Dishwasher (Summer)
[ b]Other**
Applying for Financial Aid? YES
Country (if international applicant):Canada
School Type: Public
Gender:Male
Income Bracket: 90k
Are you a competitive applicant? Absolutely. Will that get you in to Harvard, or any other comparably competitive school? No one knows. 80% of the 35,000+ applicants at Harvard are competitive.
Your academics are fine. That’s a small piece of the picture. You have some solid ECs, but based on your OP not a lot stands out. The challenge will be to make yourself stand out and differentiate yourself from the crowd. Right now your ECs and awards reads a bit like a “laundry list”, and it’s hard to tell where your focus lies. Business, math, robotics, physics, math, medicine, theatre, debate, rights advocacy, newspaper, literary society. Your spread all over the place, and the overall effect is to dilute what you’ve done, not enhance it. That needs to change if you are going to have a significant chance.
Because you are applying as an international student, your chances are not the same as a US applicant. For example: Go to: http://www.hio.harvard.edu/statistics. From the pull-down menus select STUDENTS, HARVARD COLLEGE (the undergraduate school) and CANADA.
There are currently 147 Canadian students at Harvard who are freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors. Which means, on average, about 36 students from Canada matriculate to Harvard each year. (With an 82% yield, Harvard admits about 44 Canadian students to get to those 36 matriculated students. And a good many of them I imagine are recruited athletes on the ski team and ice hockey teams.)
Harvard doesn’t publish the number of Canadian students who apply for those 44 slots, but my guess is the overall application numbers could be in the 4,000 to 6,000 range, maybe higher.
So, while you are a competitive applicant, you need to be an exceptional applicant in the Canadian applicant pool. As Harvard receives more applications from competitive students than they have room for in their freshman class, Admissions uses a student’s teacher recommendations, guidance counselor’s Secondary School Report (SSR), essays and interview report to select one high performing student over another. As you didn’t post that information, no one can really say what your chances are.
More to the point, none of us are admissions officers at Harvard, and they are they only ones who can accurately chance. So are you competitive? Yes. Your stats, except for your GPA (but Canada is also well known for grade deflation), are better than mine were. Will you get admitted? Who knows.