<p>Harvards 25th-75th percentile ranges from 2150 to 2370. Out of that, 40% of accepted students have hooks such as athletes/URMs/legacies. This means, for an unhooked applicant, your scores have to be higher, lets say, 2250, to be decently competitive. Now, if you are international, the competition is much tougher… so lets just say 2300 for an unhooked international applicant. Now, add ORM into the mix and we are around 2350. I’m not saying you can’t get in with lower, but I’m saying that your chances are quite low. None of your ECs, jump out.</p>
<p>Also, look at this: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/651345-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-3-a-50.html#post1062681634[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/651345-race-college-admissions-faq-discussion-3-a-50.html#post1062681634</a></p>
<p>Look at post 749. You can see CC members who were accepted to Stanford. With Stanford having a slightly lower 25th -75th percentile than Harvard, you can see what my point is.</p>
<p>Furthermore, I would say your ECs are below average when compared to the average Harvard. It is also blatant that you are exaggerating and if I can know that, then the admissions officers will know too. For example, I was still in high school when SEAMC came to Singapore, and my teacher helped out with organizing it (the math teacher of another school organized it) and I know that, on the whole, the teachers were organizing it and the students helped out only (they never got in contact with the hotel where the students were staying, decided budgets or any of the other logistics). I wouldn’t have to know that prior knowledge to know that a student would never be in charge of organizing a competition as big as SEAMC.</p>