Does anyone here go to Harvard University?
Asked by Catherine BI'm just now going to start high school. I would really like to go there, ever since 4th grade. I have great grades, extracurricular, clubs, and I won a lot of award on awards day, along with some other things. Please tell me what I need because I'm dying to go there. P.S-I have visited the University many times. I'm also looking into others like Yale, Princeton, Standford, and a few others, but my dream is to go to Harvard. I left out some other details, but if I get any questions I will answer. Thank you! Yes my family does have the money to pay. Also they are helping with the Harvard in Brazil too. They are donating a lot of money. I want to be a lawyer.
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Answered by Eve D
I just graduated from Harvard, and I (along with all my friends) absolutely loved it and none of us wish we'd gone anywhere else. The only person I know who "hated" it was a girl who lived in my freshman dorm and was getting low-ish grades (several B-'s) in the first-year writing course. She also didn't get along with her super-perky roommate, and had a bit of a meltdown and transferred to Dartmouth. Oh, and Harvard is no longer offering an early admission option, so you're out of luck on that one. Now that I got that out of the way, I'll address your real questions. =) I wanted to go to Yale starting around the same time you decided on Harvard -- then I switched when I decided I wanted to study math and realized Harvard had the much better program. Having a goal early on is great, but like everyone told me, you could be setting yourself up for major disappointment, so watch out! It sounds to me like you're doing a lot of the right stuff. I never went overboard with standardized test prep, but if your scores aren't really high, make sure you do everything you can to get them up. Keep your grades as high as possible, too, obviously, and stay as involved as possible with your activities and clubs. But here's what I think is the key: While it's important to be very good at everything (being "well rounded"), it's even more important to be *especially* good at one thing in particular (being "well lopsided," as we like to call it). So even if you win lots of awards in lots of areas, make sure you have one that you pursue especially passionately -- as passionately as possible -- even if you love everything equally. You want the admissions people to be able to refer to you as "that X girl" where X can be debate, animal rights, molecular biology research or anything else. You don't want to be just another person who's done tons of little stuff and writes an essay about how important their family is to them, or how much they enjoy studying generally. There's no absolute recipe for getting in, but that's the best advice I can offer. =) Keep challenging yourself, and you can make it. And once you get there, I promise it will absolutely have been worth it!
I just graduated from Harvard, and I (along with all my friends) absolutely loved it and none of us wish we'd gone anywhere else. The only person I know who "hated" it was a girl who lived in my freshman dorm and was getting low-ish grades (several B-'s) in the first-year writing course. She also didn't get along with her super-perky roommate, and had a bit of a meltdown and transferred to Dartmouth. Oh, and Harvard is no longer offering an early admission option, so you're out of luck on that one. Now that I got that out of the way, I'll address your real questions. =) I wanted to go to Yale starting around the same time you decided on Harvard -- then I switched when I decided I wanted to study math and realized Harvard had the much better program. Having a goal early on is great, but like everyone told me, you could be setting yourself up for major disappointment, so watch out! It sounds to me like you're doing a lot of the right stuff. I never went overboard with standardized test prep, but if your scores aren't really high, make sure you do everything you can to get them up. Keep your grades as high as possible, too, obviously, and stay as involved as possible with your activities and clubs. But here's what I think is the key: While it's important to be very good at everything (being "well rounded"), it's even more important to be *especially* good at one thing in particular (being "well lopsided," as we like to call it). So even if you win lots of awards in lots of areas, make sure you have one that you pursue especially passionately -- as passionately as possible -- even if you love everything equally. You want the admissions people to be able to refer to you as "that X girl" where X can be debate, animal rights, molecular biology research or anything else. You don't want to be just another person who's done tons of little stuff and writes an essay about how important their family is to them, or how much they enjoy studying generally. There's no absolute recipe for getting in, but that's the best advice I can offer. =) Keep challenging yourself, and you can make it. And once you get there, I promise it will absolutely have been worth it!
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