Asking Black Students how they got into Harvard

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:ohlawd: I can smell the privilege through the screen. W to their families for setting them up for success.
 

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My sister went to Harvard. She was valedictorian, honor society, lol that shyt… and spent her whole life studying as far as I can tell. We basically had no relationship cause she was always in her room studying.
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Mine went to Vandy. Same shyt. All she did was study, read, extracurriculars, sports, clubs etc.
 

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Essentially, the school is looking for future leaders. A 1600+ SAT isn't special. What else are you doing to change the world or who do you know? That's the question that stomps a lot of Asian applicants.
Simply put, this is it. Pure numbers and shyt like that is the MIT, Dartmouth, Caltech etc but yes Harvard, Stanford this is what they looking for.
 

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My sister went to Harvard. She was valedictorian, honor society, lol that shyt… and spent her whole life studying as far as I can tell. We basically had no relationship cause she was always in her room studying.
:yeshrug:
Respect. Was this undergrad? What did she ultimately study? Also, was that innate? Or your parents inspired her to strive for Harvard
 

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My sister went to Harvard. She was valedictorian, honor society, lol that shyt… and spent her whole life studying as far as I can tell. We basically had no relationship cause she was always in her room studying.
:yeshrug:
Does she regret not having a social life or relationship with you?
 

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Respect. Was this undergrad? What did she ultimately study? Also, was that innate? Or your parents inspired her to strive for Harvard
Undergrad and grad school. She was premed, wanted to be a doctor but developed OCD while there and went to law school.

She’s the oldest and I’m the youngest so I can’t say if it was innate really because something may have happened to make her like that before I was around but I would say yes.

Definitely didn’t come from my parents. They really weren’t involved in my academics so I imagine it was the same for my older siblings. Like i did my own homework. I don’t remember them helping, asking about school or being on us like that. Which is odd because both our parents were college educated so you’d think they’d be on us. They divorced when I was 5 so that usually makes kids grown up more independent. I just did my own thing and got good grades. Mom was working a lot when I stayed with her and my dad did the same when I stayed with him so our time together was always about hanging out, not school.

I think because my sister, the first child, was so smart and didn’t need involvement, they just didn’t do it for the rest of us either. I got good grades, my brother (middle child) didn’t.

What does she do now?
Lawyer
Does she regret not having a social life or relationship with you?
I don’t know really. She’s a cat lady. Pretty sure she is asexual. I don’t think she’s ever had a boyfriend or showed interest. We had a strained relationship the older I got. Was nonexistent as an adult. I take care of my mom (disabled and dementia) so we’ve gotten more cordial having to speak regularly now about my moms health and affairs.
 
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