Driven, Sociable, "Has...

Harvard Interview: My interviewer and I met at a coffee bean down the street from my high school. She was in her early forties, with two children in middle school and elementary school, and worked in the area. She went through my personal profile and a short resume I had brought to the interview, reading things aloud as she went and asking me a thing or two about what I had been interested in. Suddenly, she stopped at the part where it said that I had been the fencing team captain at our school. Fencing isn't a huge thing at...

The Harvard experience is generally focused around three things for postgraduates: Entering the corporate world, Applying for graduate or masters programs, and everything else. The first, which comprises up to 35% of the graduating class, is devoted to the corporate space, especially finance and consulting companies, which come to campus in the fall and spring to recruit potential applicants. For finance (as of 2017), the process can start as early as your first day on sophomore fall with local internship informational sessions in the ballrooms of local Harvard Square hotels. For consulting, the process is generally begun junior fall (as of 2017), with...

As someone coming from a small private school, recommendations was always at the forefront of my mind by the time I reached junior year of high...

I've looked at my Harvard admissions file from the time I applied and have seen the comments that the Harvard admissions committee wrote about my profile—about me. What's interesting is that...

In hindsight, what would have been slightly better for my application profile would have been to demonstrate more passion for the groups and the activities that I had been a part of. I could tell, by looking at my college admissions file after I had been at Harvard for...