What do you have to do to get into Harvard University?

Question

I'm a freshman and I want to know what I should be doing or grades I should be getting to get in. It has been my dream to be a lawyer from Harvard ever since the fifth grade.

Answer 1

Maintain a gpa of a 3.7, score well above norm on your SATs, get involved in afterschool activities, and stay out of trouble. You should do fine.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 2

I graduated from high school with a 4.3 GPA...got a 2100 on my SAT...got 800's on two SAT II's and 750 on a third one...took seven AP exams and got 5 on all of them except one where I got a 4.

I went to 4 different high schools in 2 different countries (Israel and Taiwan, I went to international schools).

I wasn't big on extra-curriculars but I did do varsity soccer, filmmaking club which made a film about cancer research and the Terry Fox run. The reason I was not involved in extra-curriculars so much is because for the first two years of high school I had no opportunities to (didn't speak the languages of the countries I was living in).

I was rejected from Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.

No one from my high schools got into any of those universities (I had the second highest GPA at graduation).

My point is: getting into any of those top Ivy League universities is damn near impossible. If you have high caliber grades, the next thing you need is LEGACY (which means someone in your family went there), or you need to do an extracurricular so unique that it separates you from the pack (MUN and Key Club won't cut it).

This is the sad truth about those universities. Demand is WAY WAY higher than supply. If you feel like spending $70 per application and you think you may have a chance, go for it (I did). But remember, there are other universities out there that are just as good. I am being tested in physics at the University of Toronto and I'm happy.

Also, if you want to be a law student at Harvard, you would be applying for graduate school, so you'd need a bachelors degree from another university (not necessarily Ivy League).

Answer 3

Are you a freshman in high school or college?

A law degree requires an undergrad degree first.

If you're still in high school, do you want to be a lawyer who went to Harvard for undergrad and then graduated somewhere else with a law degree? Or Harvard Law School?

To get into Harvard undergrad, I hope you're in the top 2% of your class, top notch SAT/ACT scores, and a few extra curricular activities in which you did something special at. Not just the usual "President of X club" stuff.

For Harvard law, just replace SAT/ACT with LSAT (the law school entrance exam).

Answer 4

Get involved, get involved, get involved. Volunteer, sign up for clubs at school, make sure to get some leadership in.


Tons of kids want to get into Harvard. The question you have to ask yourself is -- what will make me stand out? Why should they pick ME as opposed to some other guy?

Grades and SAT are important, but if that's all you got, then it won't help much. You need those, but you also need to STAND OUT.

Answer 5

Be extremely intellegent, be an over achiver, work hard on every little thing you do. Set it as your main prioraty, dont goof of in school, try to praticapate in sports, but not so much that you dont have major time to work on school work and you should be gettting straight A's if not A+. Also you should try to be in as much honor classes as possible. Goodluckk !!!!

Answer 6

Have a high GPA
Participate in many school activities
Community service helps
Going to a magnet school
A very high SAT score

Answer 7

you should be rich and white.

Answer 8

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