Chance Me Harvard EAR 2019

<p>This is the only school I have done so far and I’ve been somewhat blind going through this but here it is!</p>

<p>SAT I: R - 800 M - 740 W - 800 Total: 2340
SAT II: Spanish - 800 American - 760 Physics: 670
PSAT: 227
APs: Bio, Human Geo, America, European, Spanish, Calculus AB, Physics B, Lang and Comp, (3 5s, 3 4s, 2 3s)
APs Being Taken: Calculus BC, Enviromental, Lit and Comp, Spanish Literature, Chemistry
GPA: weighted 4.40, unweighted is somewhere around 3.9+ ? Rank is completely unknown at my school size: 50</p>

<p>Awards</p>

<p>Telluride Association Summer Program Scholarship Award
AP Scholar with Distinction
MUN selected for CONA delegation in Washington DC, did not attend
National Merit Finalist
National Hispanic Recognition Program
National Hispanic Exam Premio de Oro (Fluent Speaker’s Test)
Science National Honors Society
National Quill and Scroll Society
Spanish National Honor Society
National Honors Society (9-12)
Full Scholarship Award Won Every Year at High school (private prep :confused: )
Spanish Excellence Award won every year at school
Distinguished Honors Roll (GPA unweighted of 3.85 every quarter) 9-12
American College of Musicians Piano Guilds National Winner Superior Plus/Top Talent Every Year, 5 Year National Honor Roll Winner
1st Place Poetry Award at West Chester University</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars</p>

<p>Telluride Association Summer Program University of Michigan II (acc rate: 4%) 11th Grade
Model UN 9-12
Art Club 9-12 (President)
Book Club 10-12 (Founder and President)
Academic Challenge Team 11-12 (Captain)
Newspaper 11-12 (Associate Editor)
Yearbook 12 only (Associate Editor)
Choral Group 9-12 (Concert Coordinator)
Jazz Band 9-12
Classical Piano Training 12 Years
Jazz Saxophone Training 4 Years
Music Theory Lessons 2 Years
Pennsylvania Academy of Art After School Art Programs Foundational Drawing and Classical Oil Painting 11-12
Moore College of Art 9
School’s Theatre Society 9-11
Aymara Summer School for a Summer in Bolivia 10th Summer</p>

<p>Volunteer Service</p>

<p>-Animal Rights Organization in La Paz, Bolivia 9th Summer
-Volunteer/Internship at a Veterinary Clinic in La Paz Bolivia, Raised 1500$ for supplies 9th Summer
-Volunteer with Bolivian NGO CENATEC PDI building irrigation and hydroponics in rural village with engineers from engineers without borders, also directing educational programs on ecological sustainability and soil erosion studies, also helped translate between foreign engineers and Bolivian workers 10th Summer
-Community Parks Cleanup in Ann Arbor Michigan 11th Summer
-Volunteer at local food shelter
-Volunteer with Philadelphia Area Federal Migrant Education Program
Total Hours: 500+</p>

<p>-Essays: Great! Wrote common app about how I related to a piece of post-modern art in a museum one time, and my supplement was about how growing up languages have shaped my view of the world and how it functions touching on
-English v. French. v Spanish v. Aymara, mostly while in Bolivia (Mother is a polyglot Bolivian)
-Recommendations: Supposedly INCREDIBLE or so says my counselor
Interview: Also supposedly INCREDIBLE as interviewer expressed to my school counselor when they met by chance at an event</p>

<p>Languages
-English (obviously)
-Spanish (1st language fluent)
-Aymara (Conversational)
-Sign Language (Proficient)
-Latin (3 years formal study, translate and read)</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Hispanic - Lived in Bolivia for 4-5 years
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: N/A
Legacy: None</p>

<p>Hooks: Hispanic but Also Bolivians which are a rare nationality in the US? I know Telluride Association Program is supposed to make my application realty stand out, so hopefully that helps. I’m clearly not a machine with PERFECT everything, but I think my application shows my love for many fields, especially the social studies and the arts. I am so nervous I hope all goes well! Good Luck to everyone else applying</p>

<p>*Aymara is a language spoken by around 2 million natives in the Andes in Bolivia. </p>

<p>What’s the point of this? Decisions come out in just over 26 hours!!</p>

<p>Just last minute paranoia. </p>

<p>Good chances- URM hook + TASP makes you a very strong applicant. I would bet greater than 50 percent chances</p>

<p>Looks like a very solid profile to me! You certainly could be admitted. Good luck :slight_smile: </p>

<p>You sound like a great candidate and I’m sure your odds of SCEA acceptance are excellent. I hope you have good news in your inbox tomorrow!</p>

<p>Did you get in?</p>

<p>unfortunately I was deferred. Not sure what it was, especially because of my URM status and TASP on the app. I guess the admissions process at Harvard is more random than I thought. :confused: </p>

<p>That application was way too excessive. Too many activities, remember that top colleges like harvard have to make sure that you are actually human. It seems like your schedule was booked up to the max just for college.</p>

<p>Can you please keep us posted with what college you end up going to? :slight_smile:</p>

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@skorchmarks has a very valid point. Watch how this ex-Stanford Admissions Officer reviews one student’s application and is incredulous about how the student could have done all of their EC’s. It might be the same with you: <a href=“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XL8vBBB7o”>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XL8vBBB7o&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

I understand the statement’s that it might be too excessive, but at the same time, i think that a school with predilections for an “intellectually exploring” body of students might be accepting of a student who wanted to try different things to see where their heart fits. It is in reality a cards game I recognize. A TASPer from Cornell I know who was sent home for sexual harassment was accepted at Princeton. At this point I’m quite fine being rejected for “being excessive”. I don’t think I need to refine myself over-calculatingly for a group of strangers to rip apart. I don’t watch TV and instead I like to practice piano and go into Philly for an art school I applied and got into. I don’t see how using my time differently would be considered “artificial”.

@jmlboliv About the sexual harassment thing, I feel you bro. One of my classmates got in trouble for cheating and harassing a girl, but he got into Yale early. Life feels unfair sometimes :frowning:

@sjsprint Yeah, I don’t expect it to be a perfect system, but a lot of situations seem pretty ridiculous, and it kind of sucks being told you aren’t as good a candidate for a school as a potential security threat :confused:

We’re those things on their transcripts?! That’s cazy! @jmlboliv‌ @sjsprint‌

@ndemazita Nope. He only got detention over the weekend, which isn’t enough to be required to report it to colleges. (according to my school’s administration)

@ndemazita My school isn’t that great, so this kind of stuff happens relatively often, unfortunately.