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What does the Harvard admissions team want from applicants? What can I do to better my chances?

>> No.4270647

Document your family's Harvard legacy.

>> No.4270658
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>>4270631
I don't have any family that has gone to Harvard, but I'm academically successful and my family has some money. I was more looking for things that are not quite so obvious as grades or connections.

>> No.4270661

>>4270658
In which case, be Native American.

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>>4270661
that feel when

>> No.4270665

>show your leadership abilities
>well rounded academically, AP science/math and AP language/social studies
>extracurriculars
if you show that you're a leader your chances are bumped up dramatically.

>> No.4270667

>>4270631
In china and india, the rich family's hire someone who creates fake transcripts, often working with the high school, so that the student will definitely get into w/e university he/she pleases

>> No.4270678

I hate this leadership crap that gets touted all though school.

People who label themselves leaders and attend leadership camps are often useless in just about any situation. Productive people doing obviously interesting work don't bother yapping about their leadership abilities.

>> No.4270683

>>4270667
My friend Rancho's family went one step further. They sent their gardener's kid to university to get a degree in Rancho's name.

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>>4270664
>2012
>Be proud to be American
ISHYGDDT

>> No.4270694

>>4270678

you show leadership ability by leading, not by attending leadership camps etc.

>> No.4270702

>>4270678
I didn't do shit in terms of leadership but said I was captain of my crew team and president of the spanish club and wasn't called out. Do something like this OP

>> No.4270706

Getting a medal at the International mathematical olympiads will get you in.

>> No.4270722

>>4270690
You didn't understand at all.

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>>4270661
OP here. My great-great-grandmother was Inuit. Probably not worth mentioning though, unless I did something like a trip up north and cited my ancestry as the reason for it.

>> No.4270869

My professor was a Harvard administrator on the admissions board.
He told me that the board looks for hard workers with personalities, and the letters you send should show you personality.

>> No.4270879

>>4270738
Do you look somewhat native? If you do, go for it, that's a great idea.

>> No.4270887

>>4270738

enjoy your genetic predisposition for alcoholism....

>> No.4270888

>>4270738
Tell them you had a leadership position is the Seal Club.

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OP still here. Can anyone think of any other areas to focus on, beyond demonstrating leadership abilities, being academically well-rounded, taking part in extracurricular activities, and being a "hard worker with a personality?" Playing some kind of a race card doesn't really sit right with me, to be honest.

>> No.4271832

>>4271804

Well Harvard always wanted a few more football fields if you know what I mean...

>> No.4271860

For undergrad? Doesn't really matter. Only major where undergrad reputation really matters is finance

Graduate school? Depends entirely on what you're going for

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>2012
>applying to Harvard


go to a real school

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>>4271860
Finance is the concentration in which I'm interested.

>> No.4272063

That's true about China. Roughly 75 percent of Chinese applications to foreign universities are faked in some regard. I was once asked by a Chinese friend to edit the application of her friend. She basically wanted me to edit three recommendations she wrote for herself. Each letter said things like, "...was my best student, and solved difficult problems with ease...she is academically gifted and a match for Stanford because...". I refused to write it actually.

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>> No.4273811

Harvard is shit.

If you want to impress the admission's person, make your application stand out.
I mean, basically write like you're raging in a 4chan thread.
Tell them exactly who you are. Tell them your weird secrets. Write in a way that lets them connect.

>> No.4273864

>>4270888
>ic what you did there