Ivy league acceptance without advanced classes?

franglish
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:36:22 +0000

Colleges evaluate applicants on the basis of the rigor of the program that is offered. I know a young lady who is finishing her sophomore year at Harvard. She came from a tiny community whose hs offered no APs, no IB and only one or two honors classes. The highest math she took was pre-calc. Lots of ECs due to her relative isolation. She did very well on standardized tests (but not 2400/36) and was the first and only student ever admitted to Harvard. Interestingly, she was denied at Vassar and waitlisted at Sarah Lawrence!