Kindly chance me for Harvard

steve_i
Thu, 24 Aug 2017 21:52:59 +0000

Hi there!

So I’m an international student who wants to apply at Harvard’s CS department and here are my stats:

UW GPA: 3.88
SAT: 1540 (R&W - 750; Math - 790)
SAT Subject tests (both Math): 750 both of them

Experience of 3 years and 8 months of working as a developer for tech startups. I’m an Android dev and have good testimonials from guys with 20 years of experience in the IT field who actually hired me. I worked remotely with a company from the US, one from France and many others from the UK and Australia on smaller projects.

I have 3 live apps on Google Play and with one of them I actually applied to a startup incubator. It has 1000 downloads, barely 170 active users (because I found out I need to make a web platform with this tech I made).

Have been studying Machine Learning for one year (Andrew Ng’s course, couple of books read) and now I take datasets from Kaggle and play with them (in Python).

Build an app for diabetic people in my town. Made a focus group, showed them the app and they actually liked it. It helpes them keep track of their glucose and ketones levels and it also offers nutrition advice.

Read a ton of books about psychology and persuasion and built a mini online course for freelancers. I ended up helping 20 people get 3x the rates that they were previously charging as well as better contracts than before.

Spoke at a freelancer seminar in my capital city and inspired people to take action and raise their rates.

I love archery, trained for about 10 months but had to give up because my family couldn’t afford it at the time.

Volunteered in 2 summers at a local oratory for children. We organized a wide range of educational activities.

Oh and my family makes $40K per year (before taxes).

That’s about it. I know that Harvard kids are geniuses so I really don’t know if I might give it a shot…my GPA is low…