Any chances to get into Harvard.

Scholar1989
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:21:57 +0000

Hello! I would like you to make an assessment and try to judge my chances.
I’m from Russia.
Academics: my schools doesn’t have class ranking. I have mostly B’s, several A’s and two C.
Extra Curricular: I studied Ancient Greek and Biblical Hebrew for several years ( to the advance level) and should have about 20 credit points from Hebrew University in Jerusalem ( via on-line classes) in the last. Also I studied Latin and Sanskrit (I’m going to visit some remote village in India to improve it).
At summer I’ll try to attend Harvard Summer Language School as well as innovative fluency workshop in California( desined for teachers to get used to the communicative teaching approach) to review Ancient Hebrew and Greek and will try to obtain the recommendations from professors.
Also I trade (traded) currencies and study economics in spare time.
Early I was was shooting but didn’t attended any sport competition and attended ship modeling club ( we made real looking models of various ships).
As you probably see my main passion is linguistics and Ancient Languages and Harvard is unique school with more than 100 languages offered.
I’m planning to take SAT and too SAT Subgect Tests in Latin and Modern Hebrew.

And yes -something which probably will bet a dead sentence… I’m 23 old and attended Maritime School and have been working at sea ever since ( now in the position of Third Officer). I just found my passion later after High School and it is connected to the global experience I got in merchant Navy. Due to the circumstances and financial obstacles I was’t able to attend college . So, I’m non traditional student…
THank you! Will be glad to hear any advice!
Sorry for my bad English!