Hispanics in Harvard

fauve
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:19:05 +0000

The Hispanic applicant pool for Harvard becomes more academiccally competitive every year. I would suggest a 32 ACT to be comfortable, a 34 to feel like you are in the ranks.

Poponorte- If your son is applying as an Hispanic URM, the 800 Spanish will not be seen as unusually significant. With a Spanish passport, it would be assumed he has had a Spanish language influence of some sort.

And remember, the Hispanic “hook” decreases in power with the ever-increasing number of high-scoring Hispanic applicants from CA, NV, AZ, CO, FL, NY, NJ, NM, etc. The hook does not have power of the Afr-Am hook or, the most powerful hook of Native American.