Chances for Harvard?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Year: Junior</p>

<p>Test Scores: PSAT 233, have yet to take SAT and ACT
Grades: 4.0 unweighted, 4.14 weighted
Other: 3/3 perfect National Latin Exams</p>

<p>ECs: Robotics club founding member, head of Latin club, software company since freshman year with a plethora of products (apps and websites) and significant profits, contributions to open-source software, service at ESOL, robotics institute, and my Church.</p>

<p>AP and Honors Classes: AP Micro and Macro Economics, Honors Physics, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics
Classes at local university: Multivariable Calculus, Foundations of Higher Math.</p>

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<p>along with many other students, it is really hard. but try to improve in all your fields, and be well-rounded</p>

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<p>Do you suggest I continue to focus on programming, math, and language, or branch out into other electives?</p>

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<p>get over 2300 on the SAT and keep that 4.0 uw till your senior year…this will prevent you from getting rejected immediately…the admission committee will look deeply at your application so be sure to write a killer essay…I suggest you start now and keep improving it till you apply…very good leadership ec uptill now so keep that up…you have a lot of technology related ec so I am guessing your major will be in the engineering field ? overall very impressive…</p>

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<p>Yeah, Math and Computer Science are my interests. I’ll major in both if I can!</p>

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<p>no one has any chance at Harvard honestly… with a 3% acceptance rate. that being said, you definitely have the credentials… GOOD LUCK</p>

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<p>What software company? Do you have a link or a website?</p>

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<p>poulsonl, 3% acceptance rate? That statistic is insanely off.</p>

<p>You are on the right track. You have excellent stats and ECs. Continue to build on them and create a well rounded, yet focused, application.</p>

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<p>Given your Latin expertise, I would consider applying to Holy Cross which has several full ride merit based Classics scholarships.</p>

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<p>more insane EC’s and you’ll maybe get in. can never tell with the HYPSMC</p>

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<p>Some of our most successful products are: laptoptext.com, filepiper.com, Mementos for iPhone, a graphing calculator for iPad, bonds.io. We don’t have a landing page for our company currently.</p>

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<p>All of these seem like placeholder applications - do you have any stats as to how popular they’ve become? If so, that would be a good idea to include. Also, none of them seem to have any documentation whatsoever. Secondly, none of them seem like major undertakings - all of them are pretty thin layers on top of pretty high level libraries…</p>

<p>But, you do have a good GPA and good ACT scores, and, as long as the officers don’t look super deep into your CS accomplishments, they seem very impressive.</p>

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<p>Most of the links I shared are from the last couple months. I have a game website that gets 1M views a month and mementos has over 10K users. With regards to difficulty, bonds.io is far from a simple algorithm, filepiper.com uses cutting edge technologies, and laptoptext.com has realtime reception of new text messages; however, these sites are mostly used by my classmates.</p>

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<p>actually it IS a 3% regular decision acceptance rate. it appears to be around 7% because that is accounting for early decision as well.</p>

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<p>@mneary</p>

<p>If you’re getting 1M views on a website per month, that’s pretty incredible and awesome and definitely something to put in your application (also something that will probably help you stand out of the crowd). </p>

<p>But, I still stand by what I was talking about earlier. Using websockets and a realtime communication library isn’t really rocket science.</p>

<p>Bonds.io, on the other hand, is very interesting, especially as some platform to build on top of. Any chance of open-sourcing it?</p>

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<p>I just want to make clear I have extensive CS knowledge. I have made web servers in C and Haskell, compilers, a websockets implementation in Objective-C, etc. I’ll admit none of my products took more than an evening, but my side-projects are far more complex.</p>

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<p>Okay, that’s awesome then. If you’ve open sourced any of these projects, that would be a pretty great thing to include in applications.</p>

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<p>Thanks! I feel almost ashamed of the simplicity of the products I release, but they’re mostly just to impress my classmates, lol.</p>