Chance me for Harvard as a legacy
Demographics: Male, white/jewish, Upper middle class (will probably not qualify for financial aid)
Residency: Canada, have US citizenship
Intended major: Econ + Stats or Finance + Stats
Hooks: Harvard legacy, (Also from a somewhat underrepresented part of Canada? Not sure if this counts for much?)
GPA: Don’t have one, based off the Harvard conversion scale I have a 3.82/4, but it will be ~3.9/4 once I graduate. Have somewhat extenuating circumstances related to french classes I was forced to take which I might explain in the additional info section. (I have a near perfect GPA without them)
SAT: 1520 superscore (760E / 760M). Retaking in March, will prob get 1550 since I barely prepped for math before.
Course rigor: No AP, school doesn’t offer them. I have 26 college level courses and will be graduating with the equivalent of an associate’s degree. (some examples are Linear Algebra, Macroeconomics, Accounting, Quantitative Analysis, etc.)
Class rank: School doesn’t rank but I am in around the top 5% of my province fwiw.
Awards: Nothing impressive at all:
- Honors list every semester
- Highest honors on the Brevet (french national exam)
- Wallstreet prep excel certification (💀)
- Might get global seal of biliteracy but it’s prob useless
Extracurriculars: - Internship at Private Equity firm - Shadowed Fortune 500 CEO - Internship at Wealth Management firm - Assistant manager + cashier at a store (won’t give too many details here but takes up a lot of my time) - Many years of experience investing and learning options trading strategies (no idea how i’ll word this in the common app) - Social media account about financial literacy (still very new but hope to grow it to at least a million total views) - Math tutor for precalc, calc 1/2, linear algebra - Member of my school’s business association (will try to get some sort of leadership position) - Iaido (japanese martial art) - Weightlifting / bodybuilding
Essays: Not started yet.
Letters of rec: My school is like a college in the sense that we have classes on a semester by semester basis. It’s hard to get the same teacher twice and therefore I probably won’t be able to form the best connection with them.
I’m operating under the assumption they will be somewhat generic and will definitely speak positively as to my performance inside the classroom but nothing outside of the classroom / showing growth or personal development.
List of colleges I will be applying to:
REA: Harvard
ED2: UChicago
RD: - Williams - Amherst - Middlebury - Bowdoin - Dartmouth - Cornell - Brown - NYU Stern - CMU - Rice - Vanderbilt - UMichigan Ross - UT Austin McCombs - USC - Georgetown - Emory - Notre Dame
Canada: Western Ivey, Queen’s Smith
Note that all the schools are very very far reaches because I will automatically get into my safety of school of McGill due to my grades.
Thanks in advance everyone!