How to get into Harvard

Nick017
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:25:00 +0000

Who the hell cares what admission officers look for? Unless you are the admissions officer of harvard, you don’t know what is going on in their minds, you can only make educated guesses. You don’t know why you were accepted and if denied, you have no idea why, you can only guess. So stop worrying about what they want, give it your best shot, give your whole person to them, not just the aspects you think they want to hear. You can’t crack the process, you can only crack yourself against the process. Just formulate a good attack plan, and choose from where you get accepted, and shrug off rejections, because you don’t know why you were rejected and you shouldn’t care. Don’t waste your time trying to crack the question of what is the panacea to the application that will make you a shoe-in, because there is none. Admissions officers choose some people, and if you do your best at what you love and will make you better, SOME admissions officers will choose you, and that is what matters. Oh, and my best friend is happily in Brown after maintaining a 2.7 GPA and SAT’s /2400 that look like they should be /1600, so they don’t discard your apps on the basis of scores, they will still read your letters and essay. I have no damn idea what got him in, he is truly an amazing writer/speaker, perhaps that was it. The key thing is that you don’t know why admissions officers do what they do, and it’s not worth your time to try to crack their minds.