Chances of admission to top 50 university with excellent grades but few extracurriculars [WI resident, 4.0 GPA, 1520 SAT, 34 ACT, <$40k; social sciences]

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Yes, eventually. The case is well documented. Perhaps the strangest aspect of the story is that he applied as a transfer student from neighboring MIT, for which he fabricated a transcript, but asked that his Harvard admission interview take place in Maine, where he was, undisclosed, a student at Bowdoin College. I’ll add that the fabricated MIT transcript included A grades for a school that, by policy, evaluated all first-year students on a pass or fail basis.