<p>Hello everyone. When I was born I had a rare heart condition called “Tetrollogy Of Fallot”. It’s a rare heart disease that causes major complications in the heart. The same week I was born I had to get open heart surgery because I had a whole in the walls of my heart. Because of the disease I flunked a grade and since then I have had basic classes and had special accommodations such as extra time on homework and test or testing in a special room with a camera. Each year I would always get a new Independent Educational Plan or known as IEP. I am know attending community college full time and working a full time job. I had average grades in high school because I always had difficulty learning. I didn’t fail any classes I just wasn’t a straight A student. Now that I am attending community college I have a 4.0 GPA all year and I have set my sights on a Ivy League School. Now my question is would a Ivy League like Harvard reject a student like me? </p>
<p>Why do you want to go to Harvard? If it is just for the name, you are out of luck. </p>
<p>“Now my question is would a Ivy League like Harvard reject a student like me?”</p>
<p>In all likelihood, absolutely yes. Harvard rejects about 99% of its transfer applicants. The school is looking for those transfer students where there are specific, unique reasons for the student to transfer to Harvard, not merely, “I’m a good student and I want to go to Harvard.”</p>
<p>I want to go because they have an excellent computer school</p>
<p>You are under no obligation to tell a school that you will eventually require disability accommodations, so they will not reject you for that.</p>
<p>No, there are many schools with better computer science programs than Harvard. </p>
<p>@TomSrOfBoston is correct on that. I think you need to do more research on computer science programs.</p>
<p>I’m attending community college and I still receive special accommodations I was only asking if they would reject a student who receives special help</p>
<p>"…and had special accommodations such as extra time on homework and test or testing in a special room with a camera."</p>
<p>I don’t know. You might want to call them and ask. I can tell you from a practical point of view, if you need additional time for homework and testing, you may just run out of hours in the day and the week. There is a minimum course load, and many students who don’t need these sorts of accommodations find the workload daunting, especially in technical courses, such as computer science.</p>
<p>However, I doubt it matters much. Harvard takes very few transfers, and only those who can make the case that Harvard uniquely provides something to the student, and the student to Harvard. There are lots of great schools with great computer science programs, some even better than Harvard’s.</p>
<p>But call them. See what they say. Then, if you’re undaunted, apply.</p>
<p>Here are some guidelines that give partial answers to your question:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.aeo.fas.harvard.edu/rights.html”>http://www.aeo.fas.harvard.edu/rights.html</a></p>
<p>Thanks for the link I’ve been looking around but I haven’t found anything </p>
<p>"I want to go because they have an excellent computer school " </p>
<p>That is, Harvard is the marquee name and you envision yourself being there. Like others have said, there’s nothing in your thread here that says you’re much more than a successful CC student, who has overcome some serious issues, but is only a name-chaser. </p>
<p>98-99% of transfer applicants get rejected. How any human being can tell you anything more cogent than that on an advice forum is beyond me.</p>