<p>GPA: 96.8% - Most demanding couresload
Rank: 6 of 221 (Top 2.7%)
SAT I: 2220 (750 CR, 720 M, 750 W)
SAT II: 720 IIC, 710 USH, 690 Bio
AP: 5 USH, 4 Lit, 4 Euro</p>
<p>ECs/Awards:
Editor-In-Chief, School Newspaper
Captain, Flag Team
Nat’l Honor Society
Tri-M Music Honor Society
Track & Field
Mathlete Team
Gold: HS Columnist - Empire State Press Association
Nat’l Merit Finalist
Nat’l Achievement Finalist
Instruments: Flute, violin
NY State School Music Assoc. - 95 / Flute
AP Scholar
Hip-hop dance</p>
<p>Summers:
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (3 yrs)
Summer Institute for the Gifted (1 yr)</p>
<p>Most amazing writer I’ve ever met
Essay excerpt; Writing allows me to dissect, expand, control, and present ideas. Language is the vehicle into the most abstract of principles, but it is finite enough to give those principles relevance. Through the work of Kate Chopin, a woman of precise and gifted words, I recognized my evolution into a person with purpose.</p>
<p>Goal to write for Harvard Crimson.</p>
<p>State: New York
Ethnicity: African-American, Indian
Gender: Female
School Type: Public</p>
<p>As good a shot as anyone.</p>
<p>What does that mean?</p>
<p>She has a much better shot than I.</p>
<p>i think that she has a good shot 
best of luck to her</p>
<p>I think that she has a very good shot, the only thing that I could see hurting her is her SAT II scores and possibly her rank. Her GPA and EC’s are amazing. So overall I would have to say her chances are above 50% and I really hope she gets in. BTW, she does seem like a very good writer w/ great college essays.</p>
<p>the essays are ok… but i don’t see anything that fantastic about the style… nor the material itself…</p>
<p>african american = 100% addmitance</p>
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<p>It’s an expression. I don’t really care to explain it (even though it’s not complicated). If you atill curious you can ask your friend and I’m sure she will understand.</p>
<p>Well I only posted a 2-3 sentence excerpt… If you read the essay in its entirety, you get the most out of it. She’s my best friend, and I’ve read so much that she’s written, and her essays and articles are always nothing short of superb. Obviously you can’t get that out of just a couple sentences posted in a forum, but she truly is amazing, and one of the smartest, most talented and amazing people I know.
I pray she gets in.</p>
<p>Um, it really doesn’t make as much sense as everyone else’s comments (and I don’t appreciate any attitude)… As good a chance as anyone else? I’m someone else, and she’s got a better chance than me… And according to the other replies thus far, she’s got a better chance that most. Why couldn’t you just say “good chance” or “decent chance” or “great chance” – Something less ambiguous, and that actually responds to the purpose of the thread.</p>
<p>Sigh. That’s not what it means. Many expressions/idioms/etc… don’t make sense if you read them literally, word by word. Why don’t YOU stop being so demanding?</p>
<p>Thank you, Ilovesoftball44. She really is crazytalented and totally deserves Harvard.</p>
<p>Then why not just reply with something that directly answers the purpose of the thread ? I don’t think I’m the only one who considers that an ambiguous response that wasn’t very helpful.</p>
<p>She has a good shot, but she hasn’t done a whole lot to distinguish herself.</p>
<p>“I don’t think I’m the only one who considers that an ambiguous response that wasn’t very helpful.”</p>
<p>Realize that when you try to chance someone for the top schools–Stanford, Princeton, Yale–it can be very, very difficult to say. Harvard? Forget it. It’s much easier to say that a certain person has no shot than it is to say that he/she’ll get in, or that it’s very likely. The best we can say is that she has a good shot, but we realize that there are many other applicants just like her.</p>
<p>Hmm… Can you elaborate a little / give an example of how one would do this ? Her accomplishments are much better than most people I know, so I guess most of my friends aren’t very distinguished. There might be something that I’m omitting from the post… I certainly don’t have her resume, and so just listed the things from my memory.</p>
<p>Yep, that’s fine. I’d much prefer someone say she has a good shot than say her shot is “as good as anyone else.” If I were to apply to Harvard, I’d have no shot!</p>
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<p>Most people familiar with the English language understand perfectly what that phrase means. Like I said before, a whole host of American idioms make no sense whatsoever if you read them literally.</p>
<p>Example: Tie the knot
When two people get married, they “tie the knot” but you would never guess this if you took the words literally.</p>
<p>Another example: To give someone the Cold Shoulder
Your shoulder isn’t literally cold, obviously.</p>
<p>Shall I continue?</p>
<p>In any case, I don’t really care to offer helpful advice to a rather insistent, imperious person such as yourself.</p>
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<p>Once again, the phrase as it is generally understood does not connote that anyone, irregardless of qualifications, has a shot to Harvard. You are confusing the true meaning with the literal word-by-word translation.</p>
<p>You’re being ridiculous, and I can’t believe you spent time to type all that out.</p>
<p>Stop judging me and acting like I’m an idiot, you don’t even know me.
All I’m saying is you could’ve given a better indicator of her chances, like the other posters, who say ‘good shot,’ or ‘eh not likely,’ something more clear and helpful. Obviously some applicants to Harvard have very good chances while others have very poor chances.</p>
<p>And obviously you’re very persistent too if you keep replying.</p>
<p>To have “as good a shot as anyone” means that she compares favorably to even the best candidates. She’s African American and thus gets a rather large boost. I would be somewhat surprised if she were rejected.</p>