¿What are your thoughts on my Harvard application?

YoungOldMan
Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:37:40 +0000

Yes, I agree. Most scholarships are for research afterall. From my previous experiences, it seems funding helps decisions a lot, even when they already have funding for a specific research. However USA universities could be very different from what I know.

Also what I was trying to figure out is if adding to the application that not I was not in good conditions during my master was a good idea or bad. I have the feeling that adding negativity to an application gives a bad taste of the person.

And, if standardized test are that important… some college websites in the USNews mention whether they are very important to them or not. The exams are very expensive and so is the material to study, it should be obvious that people who can afford these things would do better. If the admission process is holistic then the criteria for what is expected from A and B shouldn’t be the same.

While I was in my master, there were rich Asian students who were constantly on travels during courseworks or research period. To the eyes of the professors and researchers, they were more efficient at doing things. Reality was, they paid a lot of money to have people polish their essays and other works. Of course nobody goes and takes a standardized test for you, but surely they can efficiently cut the learning curve.