<p>Hi everyone,
I’m new to the thread- from Perth in Western Australia. I applied for Harvard this year on a bit of a whim but I can see that the chances are miniscule. It seems you have to be the best in the world (or at least your country) at something as well as having ace results to get in… quite depressing really as it would be wonderful to escape from Perth for a couple of years! (I love australia so much, but I do live in the most isolated city in the world)
My results are good, I finished with 99.85 (a percentile ranking of students in the state- I was ranked number 13 out of approx 15000) and I topped the Literature exam out of all the students in Western Australia.
I found out I had to sit the ACT with three days notice and flew out to the eastern states- canberra- to sit it. I scored a 35. My SAT subjects i sat with 12 hours notice and scored 780 in chem, 660 in lit and 610 in french.
I know these aren’t the best possible standardised test scores but given the circumstances (my interviewer said she’d let them know about the situation) do you guys think they’d consider me? I mean my school results are good but it just seems that’s not enough as everyone is so brilliant!
I have decent cocurriculars- tennis, piano, singing, top ten in state for french, cross country, community service, creative writing (won a couple of comps, sent these pieces in as supplementary material) but these are at more of a local level than anything national or international… Just reading admitted students stats seems quite depressing and I feel the chances are practically zero.</p>
<p>Coming from the perspective of US students who know a little more about this, do you think i stand a chance at all? I know statistically i have about a 1/17 chance, but do you think i even qualify for this?</p>
<p>And finally, sorry for the essay…</p>