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For Entrance in Fall 2012 t Application Supplement
Ofce of Admissions and Financial Aid
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Cambridge, MA 02138
Valid for entrance in September 2012 only. Please submit
this form as well as the Common Application or the
Universal College Application as soon as possible.
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possible, and by October 15, if possible.
Final deadline is November 1.
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the Harvard Application Supplement, required ofcial testing results, a Secondary School Report, two Teacher Evaluations
and a $75 application fee or fee waiver request.
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For the following questions, please place the letter or number indicating your choice in the space provided.
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807 Kilbirnie Court
Sunnyvale CA United States of America 94087
Saint Francis High School 052077
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Harvard Supplement: Side 2 of 3
At this time, which
two college activities
or sports interest you
most?
01 Arts, Visual Arts
02 Dramatics
03 Vocal Music
04 Band
05 Orchestra
06 Writing / Literary Magazine
07 Journalism
08 Student Government
09 Debate
10 Social Service
11 Ethnic Groups
12 Religious Groups
13 Political Groups
14 Dance
15 Outdoor Activities
16 Baseball
17 Basketball
18 CrewHeavyweight
19 CrewLightweight
20 Fencing
21 Field Hockey
22 Football
23 Golf
24 Hockey
25 Lacrosse
26 Sailing
27 SkiAlpine
28 SkiNordic Racing
29 Soccer
30 Softball
31 Squash
32 Swimming/Diving
33 Tennis
For a sport, indicate
intended level of
participation.
Intercollegiate Intercollegiate
Club / Intramural / Recreational Club / Intramural / Recreational
While we recognize that many students plans change during their college years, we ask you to respond to the following questions
(please choose one rating per question):
How defnite do you
consider your
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How defnite do you
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vocational plans to be?
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Our ofce may send you
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provided on page one of
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34 Track/Cross-Country
35 Volleyball
36 Water Polo
37 Wrestling
38 Cheerleading
39 Martial Arts
40 MUN
41 LGBT Groups
42 ROTC
43 Badminton
44 Equestrian Sports/Polo
First Choice Second Choice 45 Other
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every opportunity to tell us about yourself.
Supplementary
Materials
Te required components of the application to Harvard provide ample basis to make our admission decisions. However, students with
exceptional talents or achievements may send music recordings, slides of artwork or selected samples of academic work or creative writing
for us to consider as part of their application fles. At the discretion of the Admissions Committee, submissions may be evaluated by faculty.
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Academic work
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Harvard Supplement: Side 3 of 3
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themselves or their accomplishments. If you wish to include an additional essay, you may do so.
Possible Topics:
- Unusual circumstances in your life
- Travel or living experiences in other countries
- Books that have most aected you
- An academic experience (course, project, paper or research topic) that has
meant the most to you
- A list of books you have read during the past twelve months
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or have you scheduled an
admissions interview?
What specifc plan do
you have, if any, for
using the education you
hope to receive?
When will your secondary
school leaving or qualifying
examination results be
available to Harvard?
Yes
When? Where? With Whom?
No, but I plan to do so.
When? Where? With Whom?
No
Please state reason
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After wandering through the school library on a Friday afternoon, I decided to check out
Animal Farm on a whim. I glanced over the worn blue cover and eagerly opened the yellowed
pages, ready to swallow a dose of Orwellian satire. Immediately, I was overjoyed that I could
connect various characters to prominent figures in the formative days of the Soviet Union
Snowball was Trotsky, Napoleon was Stalin, and Squealer was Molotov, Stalins trusty
mouthpiece. The assassination of Sergei Kirov and the subsequent show trials of the Great Purge
were cleverly depicted through Napoleons claim that Snowball had destroyed the windmill and
his bloody reign of terror that soon followed. Mr. Fredericks use of forged notes to purchase
wood from Napoleon and the subsequent destruction of the windmill symbolized the Germany-
Soviet Union Non-Aggression Pact and Operation Barbarossa. I particularly relished the closing
statement: The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to
man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. Napoleon and his cronies had
perverted Animalism until it was indistinguishable from Old Majors vision, just as Stalin had
distorted Lenins ideas until they bore no resemblance at all to Vladimir Ilychs original
intentions. I felt immensely satisfied that my hours of poring over Elizabeth Wilsons biography
of Shostakovich and World War II: Battles and Leaders had given me the necessary background
on Russian history to better comprehend Orwells great work.
Following a suggestion made by my English teacher during a lecture on existentialism, I
decided to read Mother Night. The odd front cover depicting a blue man trumpeting out slogans
with a loudspeaker while riding on a dachshund with a swastika piqued my interest I soon
realized that this absurd image resembled Kurt Vonneguts writing. I laughed at the various
ridiculous situations created by Vonnegut. One of Campbells Israeli guards had supposedly
hidden his Jewish identity and served as a member of the Hungarian SS, thus undermining the
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organization from within. However, I was simultaneously troubled by this humor how could
such a troubling novel be so hilarious? The torment that Campbell must have undergone with the
death of his wife and being a stranger in his own homeland should have aroused feelings of
sympathy, yet his agony was my entertainment. After struggling to reconcile these two
conflicting feelings, I realized that that Vonnegut had presented Campbells situation in such a
way so that readers would not overlook the key theme people are the sum of their actions. By
giving an absurd flavor to the novel, he had disarmed his audience of any underlying notions that
might have prevented them from grasping his perspective on life.
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