Harvard Admission Rating System

Data10
Wed, 01 Aug 2018 21:34:54 +0000

Sorry, but where do applicants “say” this? They are supposed to rank activities in order of importance. But we know they don’t always. Imo, this is another stretchy overinterpretation. Do you really think H ie looking for kids who have sports as their “primary” activity?

This “stretchy overinterpretation” is one that Harvard’s own expert uses in his analysis, which Harvard frequently references on their website, as well as in their summary judgement. He states, “A primary activity is defined as an activity the applicant lists in the first or second activity field of her application.” In any case, whether the sport is a “primary” activity or not has little to do with the point of my post. The point was that the portion of applicants who receive a “2” is small than the portion of applicants who play a HS varsity applicants, so one can conclude that applicants require more than just playing a varsity sport to receive a “2.”