<p>It’s Harvard.</p>
<p>Below 2200 SAT, not #1 but in the top 10% of my class.</p>
<p>Ivystriver: if it makes you feel any better, my friend with a 2220 (my score) got into MIT! Perhaps they simply put a lower limit on SAT’s? Regardless, I’ll get rejected for the reasons I mentioned. And for having a slimmer of optimism.</p>
<p>They never receive one of your forms and thus do not even consider you as an applicant.</p>
<ol>
<li>Being Asian</li>
<li>Having the worst EC list out of the 35k+ applicants. (seriously tho. my high school experience has been mainly just school-hanging out with friends-home. Apart from being a NHS member I don’t really have anything. no passion no consistency and basically nothing)</li>
<li>Bad grades freshman&sophomore year.</li>
<li>bad essays (my counselor agrees)</li>
<li>generic recommendations that include some negative things (classroom behavior-wise)</li>
<li>short & not so fruitful interview. He really wasn’t that into me. </li>
</ol>
<p>Whoa so many reasons. I’ll still be sad if I get rejected. I think the EC’s will be the biggest factor though.</p>
<p>My interviews were kind of bad. Neither were awful but the fact that I had two probably wasn’t good to begin with.</p>
<p>Sub-2300 SAT.</p>
<p>-Not a minority
-Not a 1st generation college student
-Not a legacy
-Not a recruited athlete
-Not #1 in my class
-Not a 2300+ on the SAT
-Not an amazing writer
-Not living in an underrepresented state
-Not a great interview
So…
-Not getting accepted</p>
<p>To those who are complaining about their “low” 2300 SAT score, I’m sorry but you need to shut up. Mine was just above 2000 so if there is anyone who is going to complaining about SAT scores it should be ME.</p>
<p>-Low ACT score (typically for Harvard)
-Not #1 in my class anymore (is #3 or 4 that bad 
)
-My essay heavily focused on my passion, but after reading now, seems slightly impersonal
-Bad final grade in class junior year
-Scores below 5 on some AP exams</p>
<p>I’m sure there are many more factors/reasons, but I don’t feel like beating myself up right now and I have passed the point of freaking out for decision day lol. Good luck :)</p>
<p>Not having superduper-megatronic-winningest-awesomely uber-Chuck Norissian superhuman abilities…</p>
<p>^I think that sums it up for over 30,000 people hahaahha!</p>
<p>My essays probably suck, my EC’s are most likely outclassed, I’m not valedictorian, my research project was finished too late to be sent (not that it makes a difference anyway), I’m not in the top 6% of applicants, I have no hook, I’m asian, … wow this isn’t looking good.</p>
<p>None. I’ve been accepted. Ha Ha.</p>
<p>Maybe if I get rejected, that’s just the way it was meant to be?</p>
<p>Asian.
Parents went to college (on scholarships, but no space on Common App).
International.
EC sub-par to you CC superhumans.
Essays done 5 minutes before deadline.</p>
<p>Asian
International
Generic EC’s
Couple B’s from AP classes</p>
<p>Ahaa. But to be optimistic, our chances are 100% higher than those who didn’t have the conviction to apply! (:</p>
<p>OK ill start with my list</p>
<ol>
<li>Pathetic SAT 1 score 2030</li>
<li>Below par SAT 2 scores</li>
<li>No major awards or anything… EC’ suck compared to all the other applicants here</li>
<li>Supplemental Essay sucked … big time…
…</li>
</ol>
<p>why would you all do this to yourselves?</p>
<p>Some people who have posted have, I think, zero chance at making Harvard and have applied as a throwaway application. There is no way a sub-2100, non-URM, non-legacy, non-recruit applicant without major accomplishments or unusual life circumstances from a non-feeder school in a competitive region is going to get accepted. If you fit the above description, you have the same “chance” of being accepted as someone who did not apply: 0%. </p>
<p>Applicants who are not impressive will not be accepted. It is not a matter of chance. In many respects, the admissions process is not a lottery; luck might come into play only once you are within the pool of truly competitive applicants, when it might matter more how the adcom reading your application feels about you from an instinctual standpoint. Adcoms have the same personal biases as other human beings that affect the way they interpret, for example, essays. What is charming or powerful to one reader might seem cheesy to the next.</p>