<p>I don’t think Native American is quite all it’s cracked up to be. As a Native American myself, and someone who got a likely letter from Cornell, I was flat out rejected from Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton, and Northwestern, and waitlisted at WUSTL and Vandy.</p>
<p>My only weakness was my GPA, a 3.61 UW (which I’m pretty sure is what did it). Just goes to show that no matter what “hook” you have, if you don’t fit their criteria, you won’t get in. Lol.</p>
<p>I"m not bitter about it, and I’m ecstatic to be going to Cornell, but I wouldn’t ever tell anyone to count on their URM status to get them into Harvard. </p>
<p>If being a Native was such a hook, Harvard would’ve admitted more than the 26 Natives I think it was, or something like that number.</p>