An old favorite: should I even apply to Harvard?

CuriousBookworm7
Fri, 19 Feb 2016 04:58:05 +0000

I realize that throughout this website and many others, there are without a doubt tens of thousands of discussion questions very similar to my own, but every hopeful students has pipe dreams of getting in Harvard and other Ivy League schools, but the reality is that they all fall in line with thousands of others that have nearly same GPA, differing only in the classes and extra curricular activities they took. They are not “world- class” students, students who are in world famous orchestras or other outstanding groups. I myself am no where near that but I hope I am slightly above average.

Sorry for going into too much detail of my thoughts on the subject. Anyway, I am a sophomore in a rural high school. I current have a 3.8 or 3.9 out of 4.00 unweighted GPA and a 4.08 out of 4.0 weighted GPA. At the end of the year I will have AP US History completed. I got 1160 out 1560 on the PSNAT and have been studying as much as possible for the SAT, two of its subject tests, and the ACT. I currently sit at 23 out of 152 for my class rank ands by the end of the year I easily will be in the top ten. I was in the National Latin Society last year but since my new school did not offer it, I could not take it, so I could not renew my membership for it. I tutor after school once a week and I plan to take summer courses at Brown University. So given the limited information about myself, am I on the right track to get into a good school? If so, should even attempt to apply to Harvard two years from now or should I try for good school but maybe not an Ivy League school?

Thanks for giving reality into situation everyone. I really appreciate it!