Harvard Hopeful

kal8254
Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:07:33 +0000

Hi everyone, I’m going to be a junior in high school in the fall, and I REALLY want to go to Harvard. So bad. Here are all of my assumed credentials when I apply during my senior year. Chance me? (:

-Grades/scores: as of now, not THE BEST. ~3.75 unweighted (supposedly Harvard’s mean GPA is a 3.7); ~4.35 weighted. But I really will do my best next year, and hopefully receive all solid As (in all honors/APs [most rigorous courseload my school offers]). So more than likely I’ll hike this up. I mainly only get As and some A-s, with a rare B+ or something. I’ll also probably do well on my AP tests (5). As for the ACT, I’ll probably get AT LEAST a 30, hopefully higher (on my PLAN test it said my score would qualify me for elite colleges). SAT, I’m not too familiar with the scoring yet, but I’ll probably receive some sort of equivalent.
-ECs: Editor-in-Chief of my school’s yearbook for 2 years; took a summer journalism workshop at Michigan State University.
Varsity Forensics Team for 3 years (for those of you who don’t know what Forensics is [I think it’s kinda a Michigan thing], it’s basically competitive public speaking. My sect on the team was the Broadcasting event, where I prepared several news broadcasts (complete with an editorial of my views on a controversial story) each with 30 min. of prior preparation, then deliver each to a judge, who ranks me. I’ve finaled at several tourneys, and will hopefully go to Regionals/States next year.