Harvard and class rank

compmom
Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:25:33 +0000

You wrote “EC’s aside” and it is not really possible for anyone to comment without knowing more about you and what you do outside of academics.

Why do you want to go to Harvard? There are many good schools out there for you.

In general, schools will see that you had one tough year and then recouped. But a school like Harvard will want you to be able to excel even in hard times, frankly.

We don’t know anything about your interests and goals. But I always suggest the Colleges that Change Lives website (and book by Loren Pope) as a good place to start when looking at schools.

If you are in the kind of highly competitive school where talk is of Ivies all the time, try to find a way to get a more balanced and healthy viewpoint.