Rejected Stanford SCEA: Chances at Harvard?

fuzzyfirebunny
Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:28:53 +0000

I have to agree with Science Fiction. It’s a very brutal evaluation, but I think it’s true: you DO come off on paper precisely the way he/she described you, regardless of who you truly are. And I think that’s probably why Stanford rejected you EA instead of deferring you–you have ALL the right stats (GPA/scores wise) to be deferred or even accepted, but they probably just said “Oh look another scattered Asian applicant” and tossed it in the reject pile.

I think you have the same chance at Harvard as any other Asian applicant with good stats, but you don’t leap above the norm in any outstanding way.