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Top student earns place at harvard.
I know this guy IRL, but i really don't understand how he got into Harvard. Do harvard do interviews? He probably was outstanding at interview.
He got 10A* GCSE and AAAAA as AS. I know these might be good, but i mean isn't that the standard Oxford student grades? He got a SCHOLARSHIP, which is worth nearly 30k per year. He is junior mayor for London borough of Redbridge...
anyways ill commend him on his effort :
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/8162075.SNARESBROOK__Student_wins_place_at_Harvard/
He got 10A* GCSE and AAAAA as AS. I know these might be good, but i mean isn't that the standard Oxford student grades? He got a SCHOLARSHIP, which is worth nearly 30k per year. He is junior mayor for London borough of Redbridge...
anyways ill commend him on his effort :
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/8162075.SNARESBROOK__Student_wins_place_at_Harvard/
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fair play congrats is in order.
Well it would be harder for him to do any better. And id imagine his SAT/SATII scores were equally outstanding. He probably also had some really fantastic entrance essays.
Also from what I remember when I applied to U.S unis they give you weighting for being the first member of your family to attend universities, and yup as Jonty said in the States scholarships are income based and given out much more freely
Also from what I remember when I applied to U.S unis they give you weighting for being the first member of your family to attend universities, and yup as Jonty said in the States scholarships are income based and given out much more freely
It's not really *that* hard to get into Ivy League Colleges.... about the same as Oxford/Cambridge. Just not many students tend to, mainly because its a foreign country and a lot more expensive in terms of tuition fees etc.
Jonty99
Well his grades are clearly very impressive. I think Harvard scholarships are based on income, and scholarships are more common in American universities than British ones.
This.
And American unis seem to place a lot more emphasis on extra curriculars. What kind of stuff did he do?
Also, I don't see what else you expect him to do
You can't really get much better grades than that.Damn. Fair play to him!
much higher emphasis on ECs in the US, dont even have to be very intelligent if u have other stuff like your own business or being a championship athlete going for you, that junior mayorship probably helped him quite a lot too.
Like others have said scholarships aren't very hard to get in the US, especially at Harvard as the admissions process is needs-blind and so people who fit a certain income bracket don't have to pay as much as others who don't.
Like others have said scholarships aren't very hard to get in the US, especially at Harvard as the admissions process is needs-blind and so people who fit a certain income bracket don't have to pay as much as others who don't.
Scholarships are a lot more common in the US, I think as they are mainly done on the income of the parents but still, well done to him. It's my dream to go to uni in the US...
Please create similar threads for all of the other thousands of students there.
Sounds like he teabagged the competition.
fosforpheasant
Please create similar threads for all of the other thousands of students there.
The guy went to a school which barely has enough pass rates in GCSE to be realised as credible. From that he obtained a scholarship to an independent school then to HARVARD. His story is interesting, whereas that other "thousands of students" are usually born into privilege, that is why I wrote about this.
Do Harvard not normally accept students?
This news is ridiculous.
This news is ridiculous.
Extricated
I know this guy IRL, but i really don't understand how he got into Harvard. Do harvard do interviews? He probably was outstanding at interview.
He got 10A* GCSE and AAAAA as AS. I know these might be good, but i mean isn't that the standard Oxford student grades? He got a SCHOLARSHIP, which is worth nearly 30k per year. He is junior mayor for London borough of Redbridge...
anyways ill commend him on his effort :
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/8162075.SNARESBROOK__Student_wins_place_at_Harvard/
He got 10A* GCSE and AAAAA as AS. I know these might be good, but i mean isn't that the standard Oxford student grades? He got a SCHOLARSHIP, which is worth nearly 30k per year. He is junior mayor for London borough of Redbridge...
anyways ill commend him on his effort :
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/8162075.SNARESBROOK__Student_wins_place_at_Harvard/
In the United States most of our university scholarships are based on financial need as opposed to merit.
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