How bad are my chances with a 3.85 gpa and 30(.25) ACT? All other components of my application are excellent and I’m a URM, first gen, and dual citizen. Can the latter parts compensate for the subpar stats?
@james1998iq If you had looked over the CDS, you could’ve avoided that stress. what do you mean by objective speculation of chances? Harvard gets to cherry-pick its students from a pool of objectively qualified students based on subjective criteria. If you want to know my scores and possible hooks, look at my thread history.
@Soheils Yes the debates are face to face. I worded it poorly. I meant in the work force. And no. He really forces you to stay by basically just saying that we joined and have a commitment. One girl was able to quit only by literally bawling. So…idk! and I don’t really hate the idea I guess but the people are just so rude. I like the people on my team but when competing I want to murder the stupid assholes.
@james1998iq yeah im pretty worried about my gpa too:( I have 2340 and 5 sat2s (3 800s, 790 and a 770) but 3 Bs throughout high school. If a near-perfect GPA is the primary factor i guess i’m hopeless too
Guys, we can’t worry this much. What’s done is done.
@schroscat this is why I chose to complain about debate instead lol
Guys, how did you spend your summer before senior year? Did you do any stellar, one-of-a-kind activities? I didn’t really do anything and I’m freaking out 
@MariaScott For the first month, I had family from Turkey over. In August, my life was dedicated to the theater that I volunteered at for their summer production. I also began volunteering at the local hospital.
@MariaScott I worked, played tennis, went to Girl’s State, and during the first month I traveled through Europe for a family vacation (obv not on my resume because that’s personal stuff haha). And during one 10 day trip I visited all the colleges I’m applying to on the East Coast. It was a good time. Fun summer
hi Pakistani here. Everybody seems so tensed and i barely remembered i applied to harvard. Guess thats good for me coz i am going to get rejected because of SAT
@terry137 That’s good! Honestly a lot of people are saying they aren’t sleeping at night…but I haven’t had that problem at all. I only really get nervous when I come on the thread and everyone else is nervous! that probably says something about where my priorities should be lol. And what was your SAT? you can’t ever be sure of rejection lol.
Whoa.
@Jinxxx what’s whoa
@tuty143 Ya i was just chill till now but just stumbled on this thread again. My city sucks at academics and there are just 9 people i know in the entire city who are applying to ivies and i almost know the entire city students.
so there is not a lot of tension here.
@tuty143 I’ll be honest. I’ve been lurking this thread for some time now. I just decided to make an account now.
I had the cruelest dream last night. I dreamt that I got accepted to Harvard, and the entire thing seemed so real, I actually thought I was awake! Then I woke up and realized that it’s only December 6th and my chances of deferral are still pretty high. 
@terry137 Definitely high tension here. I’ve been doing my best to avoid it but honestly I feel pretty great about all the schools I’m applying to so not getting into Harvard will be sad but it wont be the end of my world haha.
@Jinxxx Welcome! you will notice that most of the people here are anxious, but everyone is very supportive.
@entropist Same thing happened to me the other night. I forgot about it till now lol I also had the most realistic dream about getting a role in a movie that was really anticipated. I was crushed when I woke up!
What the point of all this not sleeping at night, thats not gonna change the outcome. My family does not even know what harvard is…so no pressure here… For them Top Pakistani unis are the dream uniq.
@terry137 I think there isn’t a point to it. Some people just get very worked up over certain things, others have been dreaming of this there whole lives, and maybe others just don’t like waiting so the stress keeps them up!