<p>Yes, you should apply.</p>
<p>Your grades are excellent, your courseload superb. It would be interesting to know whether or not you’ve actually received the scores for all those AP exams, or whether some or all of those are projections of what you anticipate. If the latter, update the thread when you actually get the scores.</p>
<p>Your standardized test scores are very good, but there’s room above you. I’m not really sure that it will make a difference to Harvard whether you have a 2190 or a 2240, but re-taking the SAT or the ACT wouldn’t hurt.</p>
<p>Your ECs are very good, but not out the ordinary for Ivy applicants.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about the fact that you’re just starting to show interest in Harvard. It wasn’t even on my son’s radar until well into his junior year. Now he is an enthusiastic member of the class of 2016.</p>
<p>There is a reason why schools send literature - to pique interest, to get folks to pursue that interest a little, so that they may consider whether or not to apply.</p>
<p>My son’s interest didn’t come from literature sent to him, but rather from attendance at an open house with two other schools in which he was actually interested. But Dean Fitzsimmons, who presented for Harvard, made the school sound appealing and proactively answered many of the concerns we’d had about Harvard.</p>
<p>Further exploration eventually put Harvard into my son’s top choices, and here we are!</p>
<p>You ask, “I have no idea if I have a decent shot.”</p>
<p>You have a better shot than most. Just remember, Harvard turns away roughly 19 kids for every student they accept. Many of those they turned away are completely qualified to succeed at Harvard, as you seem to be from the small amount of data you provide here. So, apply, yes. But apply to a good range of schools. Cast your net widely. For anyone, Harvard is a “reach” school.</p>
<p>If you have a chance, visit the school. My son visited. He spoke to faculty in the departments in which he has interest. He dormed with a bunch of students. Everyone was friendly and helpful. Folks were generally knowledgeable and thoughtful in their responses to his questions. He encountered honesty and interest in him as an individual.</p>