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According to my gf who is head of all interviewers for HYP at a very large metropolitan city on the east coast, merit means having excellent grades, test scores, a measurable achievement in an area of interest - think Olympic caliber athlete, winning Intel competition, publishing original scientific research, etc. and/or overcoming great odds to achieve whatever outstanding "something", an interesting background story helps too.  Like your father is a cab driver...

HTHs![/quote]

Harvard accepted 1,990 applicants last spring. They weren't all Olympic-caliber athletes, Intel competition winners, authors of original scientific research, or overcomers of great odds.[/quote]

[b]Harvard accepts 5% from the general application pool[/b] so while they weren't all Olympic caliber athletes, Intel winners, etc they had something else that stood out more than good grades and SAT scores (25% of accepted students had perfect scores in all sections)[/quote]

Although that's mostly because more and more and more people are applying. There were 37,305 applicants for the class of 2019. As recently as 11 years ago, there were fewer than 20,000.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/2/6/admissions-applications-2019-record-high/

But yes, just plain good grades and SAT scores aren't going to get you into Harvard -- though this was true 30 years ago as well.[/quote]

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