<p>Hey I am new here. I am enrolled in a private school in Germany. I apologize for all language errors, I am not a native. A friend of mine told me to visit this website. I am considering to apply to Harvard in about a year. I pretty much read through most of the threads (rather recent ones) and I am pretty astonished. Instead of posting my, say, “list of achievements” I thought I am just going to tell, definitely not brag, a little about my self. </p>
<p>Instead of the above sentence “and I am pretty astonished” I originally wanted to say: “and my first impression is” before I hit Backspace. So, let me address this now. I was shocked. Seems like, not only me, but all of my fellow students are just lowbrow. “National Merit” here, perfect SATs there and a bunch of “Extra-curriculars”, (I think thats how you spell the word, never heard of it) including some sort of president or chairman of some, apparently, prestigious student organization. (By the way this why I hit Backspace, ["Come on I need to make a good impression upon these…well…“students”], [I just use maths notation, hope thats allright], [Off-topic as always])</p>
<p>As you can see I adopted a sort of Dostojewskij writing style. A statement I just wrote to show off, but I will not delete it. I thought it sounds intellectual but now I am going to delete it less than ever. It is hard to get rid off. I will try. </p>
<p>I am enrolled in the IB Billingual Diploma Programme (German A1 HL, English A2 Hl, Economics HL, Physics SL, Maths HL, History SL) and in general I have A+s As, and sometimes, rather rarely, Bs (I am trying to stick to the “definitely not brag” statement, ah here we go again, I told you it is hard to ge…). </p>
<p>I try to maintain a good relationship with my teachers, but in general they say they “love me”. Not for my, lets not say excellent but good scores, but for my good humour, motivation and ideas I bring forward in class. I like to take a different approach, I do at the moment I guess, and look at questions and exercises (what a lame lowbrow word) from a different viewpoint, for instance desperately trying to find some sort of correlation between the questions in the books, I am aware thats ridiculous but its fun and in general I am unsuccessful which motivates to find some. </p>
<p>I am no super smart genius but I do realize something, if anything at all, for “you” Harvard is a sort of “Myth” a sort of… cannot find any words. I guess that is what makes it special. In other countries, such as Germany, it is probably the first university one hears of but it is no sort…(whatever). I find a pleasure in studying all sorts of things, be it literature, physics, economics, politics, history, philosophy or IT. I have a passion for all my subjects thats probably why I get good scores in them without learning seven (I actually wrote 7 but that supports the fact of lo…). I get my work, including homework, done quickly in order to focus on the more fun, fascinating topics of the world. </p>
<p>I would like to pursue these subjects at a college that offers me all these courses at a level where the curriculum is not lame, where it is interesting to study these topics, where one continues to talk (I am definitely not going to use to vocabs from the barrons SAT book), question, critizise, support the arguments after the class has ended. Where one cannot wait to reveal his opinion on a subject, that he starts to spam his classmate with random chunks of letters, because he cannot cope with the idea of patience. Happened once (of course not school related) and it was a wonderful feeling.</p>
<p>I simply love my live and beginn my day filled with motivation to debate about matters such as literature or international relations in school because there I have a community of other students, willing to do the same. I love the idea and I think an atmosphere, a community, and a location such as Harvard can contribute to the greatness of even the most abstract ideas. From what I have heard of Harvard does just that. But I do not know. </p>
<p>I have no prestigious “ecs”, I am looking foward toward some good standardized test scores, a good IB Diploma, and a general satisaction of my high school education. I am just an, I desperately hope so, unusual student who enjoys his subjects, loves food and wine, and seeks a more complete understanding of the world. My scores are far from perfect but that is all I am willing to do, not more not less, and I have realized I can achieve great things, for example saving someone from suicide once, without being a “valedictorian”(what a word). I am self motivated and try to cope with my live as good as possible and not die before I have achieved something in the world.</p>
<p>I have actually achieved something right now. I wrote a huge chunk of useless words, and could have used that time to study to get “straight As”. I did not, why? I do not know. I said I am not going to list my achievements, well I have done just that, just not in a list. You can cross out all of the irrelevant sentences around it. I originally also wanted to say that I am not using contractions because my English teacher told me so, well to be honest, I am using an American Keyboard with a German assignment so I cannot find the apostrophe. I could continue to write these paradox thoughts, and one lastly will follow, but I think it is enough to stop right here. </p>
<p>This was actually going to be my last paragraph but I insert it here to leave the closing where it is, because I think it fits. The aim of this was actually to “chance me”. Even if I have failed to give you a clear and straightforward picture of my statistics, I hope you do just that. </p>
<p>Actually now I am getting scared when I submit this that a message says “The Word Limit Is Exceeded”. If it does then I will just let it go, not tell you about me and probably continue to be, in your, my, eyes “lowbrow” (This is one of the “I feel great right now” sentences) If no message appears then at least you know, I have no great ecs, sats, acts, aps and I am in fact “lowbrow” in comparison with all you.</p>