Chances at Harvard

[raven001]

<p>Some choice Kerron quotes:</p>

<p>In the Stanford forum:

Dartmouth sucks!!
does anyone actually wanna go to dartmouth anymore…to me its where all the harvard stanford and princeton rejects get dumped…lol look at their thread they play the OR game on it… shows the level of productivity at dartmouth…

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<p>His essay:

I have often heard my classmates talk about how stressful school is and how hard it is to keep up with everything. When I overhear these things i can not help but laugh and wonder how they would survive if their life was like mine. Ninety percwent of the guys in my class get to school at 8 am and leave at 2:30 pm I wish my life was that easy.
My day usually begins at 4:30. I get to the pool at 5 am hurry to school for 8 o clock and get back to the pool in the evening. Doing this while carrying a rigourous academic load and still staying at the top of my class, and being able top balance all my other extra curricular activities, in my mind is an almost super human feat. I often sit and wonder how I am able to do all this, then I remember the words I’ve been hearing since the beginning “You can do all things through Christ”, Thats what my mother has been telling me fever since i can remember. Tose words have kept and encouraged me through my most trying times.
Not from a very wealthy family i have had t work extremely hard for everything that I have achieved and this is only the beginning of my life,I know that there will be numerous challenges, trials and tribulations on the road to my destiny , but, I believe, hearing my mother’s voice repeating those words over and over in my mind will keep me striving for excellence. Knowing that I have faced obstacles and overcome them has elevated my self esteem to an almost arrogant level where i know that nothing or no one can stop me from achieving success,k so long as those words replay themselves in my subconcsious and my angels keep walking with me.

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<p>In the Yale forum:

IS Harvard Better than Yale?
The burning question on everyones mind. Is Harvard better than Yale? I have come to tell all you Yalies the answer once and for all. YES YES YES!! Harvard is way better. I have no time to sit here and argue the unnumerable reasons why that is so (because I am a Crimson and I’m busy getting laid) but why don’t you Yalies duke it out over some BUSH tea…lol GO CRIMSON!!! 35-3 ouchhh that must hurt. I think you guys should just give up and hand over the keys to ur school to the crimsons. we’ll rename Yale Call it Harvard2 (cuz everyone loves a sequal) maybe we can replenish the Ivy League prestige that yalies have tried so hard to tarnish

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<p>In other words, he’s arrogant and an all-around jerk.</p>

[Northstarmom]

<p>I am a Harvard alum.
My hope for Kerron is that the Harvard adcoms see his posts on the various CC boards. It may be hard for Kerron to imagine, but adcoms at Harvard are not looking to accept people who seem to have an overabundance of conceit while having a dearth of compassion and empathy.</p>

<p>Harvard annually gets 20,000 applicants, most of whom qualify for admission. These include excellent URMs. There’s no reason for Harvard to bother accepting someone who acts in an obnoxious way. </p>

<p>Fortunately, Kerron has posted enough information about himself here that the adcoms should find it very easy to identify him.</p>

[staticsoliloquy]

<p>oooooooooouch :(</p>

[chatterjoy87]

<p>I second that ouch…btw how do you do the little faces? All I can do are these: :-(</p>

[elizabeth22]

<p>Skip the nose and it should work. No sad faces here though…I’d be quite satisfied if there were Adcoms lurking on here to see just what kind of person Kerron is.</p>

[axfr]

<p>northstarmom do you think adcoms take a look at CC to get a better picture of their applicants? it’s a pretty good idea to get to know what the person’s really like lol</p>

<p>chatterjoy87: :d<br>
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[J_Ho]

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<p>Fortunately, Kerron has posted enough information about himself here that the adcoms should find it very easy to identify him.</p>
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<p>I’m sure it is really, really unlikely that Kerron has done this, but he could have posted another person’s stats and then acted like a jerk.</p>

<p>Probably he didn’t, sure, but someone who sees these messages about lurking Adcoms forming opinions about applicants on CC might try it in the future.</p>

<p>I mean, I think Kerron deserves a rejection just as much as the next person, but based upon something he posted here? That’s just too flimsy a reason.</p>

[DJ_Mack]

<p>It would be a very sneaky tactic if they did check out these boards, but I really doubt they do. Plus, they could never know for sure who is really posting with someone’s username. It could be a totally different person than the one who applied. It would not be fair to use this information as a guide even if someone totally exposed his identity.</p>

<p>On another note, although I am offended by what Kerron has said because it represents Christians, URMs, and Harvard applicants in a poor light, I would never wish ill on him. That’s kind of hypocritical, don’t you think? He will surely learn in time that there is a thin line between confidence and arrogance. Someone who is truly confident does not need to put down others; that lack of respect actually suggests an insecurity within oneself. </p>

<p>Kerron, compassion is just as much a virtue as confidence is. Being a Christian, you ought to know the importance of love for others, right?</p>

[ivyleaguechamp]

<p>yeah…maybe some schemer from kerron’s school is sabotaging him by acting like an idiot on the cc forums and hoping that adcoms see it. what do you have to say about that, northstarmom??</p>

<p>DJ_Mack, being nonchristian, I guess I don’t know the importance of having love for others?</p>

[PSedrishMD]

<p>Folks…let’s close the Kerron debate. He’s going to be away for a while it seems.</p>