<p>Good explanation felix, you’ve got the kinks worked out for me. Once again, if I offended anyone, I assure you it’s not because I dislike Asians or something like that.
Peace.</p>
<ul>
<li>Limited “leadership” experience</li>
<li>Asian</li>
<li>No Nobel Prize</li>
</ul>
<p>White.
Upper class.
Only 2250 SAT (although I do have a 35 ACT).
2 B+'s my freshman year.
Catholic school? My school has a 30.3 ACT average, but our track record for Harvard is atrocious.</p>
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<p>Yup, this.</p>
<p>Is white/upperclass really a downer? I don’t think it’s as helpful as a URM, but why would it hurt an app? No financial aid, legacies…</p>
<p>Rushed supplemental essay, average SAT</p>
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<p>In response to anberlina’s question, from what I have witnessed on several websites here’s the hierarchy of races within college admissions:</p>
<p>Native American
African American
Hispanic
White
Asian</p>
<p>That sounded very Nazi to me</p>
<p>@ivyeic
2 B+s freshman year won’t get you rejected, don’t lose hope!</p>
<p>@Harvard521</p>
<p>Sounds pretty right to me… (as messed up as it really is…)</p>
<p>Thanks for your responses, though it really is messed up.</p>
<p>you use “less than 14 days” when it should be “fewer than 14 days”…</p>
<p>a) race
b) 1st semester senior year grades dropped (all into the 80s), and even before this I was just top 5%
c) nothing particularly stands out in my application
d) possible application error- <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1106683-possible-problem-my-harvard-app.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1106683-possible-problem-my-harvard-app.html</a>
e) and yeah. it’s harvard.</p>
<p>whatevs. I don’t expect anything good.</p>
<p>Harvard521…actually, Asian male should be at the very bottom.</p>
<p>because I didn’t apply.</p>
<ol>
<li>No hooks</li>
<li>Didn’t impress my interviewer.</li>
<li>Poor SAT writing score, and sent it because I didn’t want to pay to send it later in case it was good. Poor ACT essay score to back it up.</li>
<li>I’ve already been accepted at another good school, so my luck-o-meter has run out. 
I think I would have preferred if my one acceptance had been Harvard.
5.Bland essay</li>
</ol>
<p>but, to make myself feel better on March 30th, I’m going to go with @CBatch’s reason: dashing good looks. :)</p>
<p>Life will go on, right?</p>
<p>not special ):</p>
<p>Because your file got accidentally deleted along with the 34 applications that were lost due to a server crash last month.</p>
<p>A low SAT score, although my ACT score should make up for it barely.
I’m white and don’t need financial aid. Although I do grow up in one of the poorest counties of Texas, and am a minority in the county I live in (less than 5% whites, and more than 95% Hispanic)… Although that doesn’t help at all, because I’m a majority in terms of the whole US. Sometimes I wish this was regional.</p>
<p>Urberville,</p>
<p>Where did you get that information about the server crash? Or were you joking?</p>