<p>Freshman year:
honors Precalc
honors Bio
honors English
accelerated Spanish
and 3 other regular classes
varsity wrestling + a number of JV tournament wins
Theater- a few roles in one of the two school plays
Model U.N. club
3.7 GPA (w)</p>
<p>Sophmore year:
AP Calc BC (took AB over summer)
AP Euro History
honors Chem
honors English
honors Span II
2 other regular classes
4.1 GPA (w)
varsity wrestling + DC champion for 106 weight class
Theater- Once again, in one play
Model U.N. club
Debate Team- qualified for Metro finals</p>
<p>you get the idea, overall:
white, male
4.0 GPA (w) 3.65 (uw)- top 15% of my (very good) school
1570/2310 Sat
Math 2: 800 World History 770 Spanish (w/o listening) 700
35 ACT
14 APs all passed mostly 5s
completed Linear Algebra and Statistics (APs)
4 years Spanish
2 years Chinese
4 years varsity wrestling, 3 DC championships
4 years of Theater with one play each year
4 years of Model UN
3 years of debate- 3 Metro qualifications, 1 Metro finals victory
2 years of NHS</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot, I’ve won a handful of writing contests as well (short stories mostly) and I was wrestling captain for 2 years.</p>
<p>SAT’s are in the top range. GPA is low for an ivy, unless your school is a feeder school to Harvard like Exeter is and they take 10-15% of the school. EC’s are decent but not great.</p>
<p>If you are good enough to wrestle at Harvard, then you probably are an automatic admit, though.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know the GPA’s low but how low is it? My school isn’t a feeder, but we get 1-3 Harvard admittees a year. I don’t know how good Harvard’s wrestling program is, I’ll look into that. How big a deal would it be that my family runs a non-profit on the side which gives bags of supplies to DC homeless? I’m technically the VP but its not a constant workload kind of thing.</p>
<p>^It’s a very good EC. You might have gotten more credit for it if your family wasn’t involved in it. On the other hand, they may think that service is a family value that you will continue with later. There’s no way of knowing, but you have enough that you should try. </p>
<p>I would check what the profile is of those who get in from your high school. And, of course, look into the wrestling program. Go ahead and contact Harvard wrestling and let them know you’re interested. Or also talk to your coach.</p>