What will you do when you get rejected?

stupiddorkyidiot
Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:11:50 +0000

@efeens, I agree that the less-qualified bunch are largely forgotten here. Fitzsimmons likes to say that 85-90% of applicants are “qualified,” meaning they could do good work at Harvard, but even out of that number, several thousand don’t have the ECs or whatever else necessary to make the cut.



the Intel/Siemens finalists who won the USAMO three times, and the people who got a 34 on their ACT but live under a rock and don’t know how much more is required to get in.

A thousand times this. I am not extraordinary and I am not ignorant. I really don’t think I’m going to get into Harvard. But at the very least, I think I have a chance.