Hopeless to Harvard — Get into Harvard - Get into Stanford - Ivy League Admissions

A nice email that I wanted to share

Just thought I’d share an email that a reader sent me today, in response to my first article in sometime. You can expect a lot more content in coming months – as well as a big update to my admissions guide.

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How To Get Off The Waitlist At Harvard, MIT, CalTech, and more

I’m starting a new segment here at Hopeless to Harvard where I directly answer user questions – PROVIDED you’re willing to have your entire question be published here, along with my response. So if you’re interested, please email me (john@). Our first question today is about how to get off the waitlist at Ivy League [...]

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Get Into Stanford If You Don’t Attend an Elite or Private High School

The fact is, the quality of your high school plays a very big role in determining whether you’ll get into Harvard or Stanford. Actually there are several reasons for this. The first reason is because the top high schools in the United States and across the world are known as feeder high schools which send [...]

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Prepare for Ivy League Admissions in Middle School

There’s a lot that you can do a middle school to prepare yourself for Ivy League admissions. After all, the earlier that you start the smarter you’ll be, the more educated you’ll be, and as a result you’ll have a higher GPA in high school, you’ll have more experience taking standardized tests, preparing yourself for [...]

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Why being rich can hurt your chances of getting into Harvard

It’s ironic but the fact of the matter is if you’re rich you may ask to have a harder time getting into Stanford and Harvard. The reason for this is because the entire stereotype behind Ivy League schools being dominated by rich white males have simply changed the way that people these days are very [...]

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Why an Ivy League school is worth $183,000

Today’s topic is a little controversial. I’m going to be blunt and straight-forward as is my style, and if you’re offended, feel free to email me and tell me why. Ivy League schools are expensive. Colleges like Harvard and Stanford cost easily $40,000 a year in books, tuition, housing, incidentals. You multiply that over four [...]

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Princeton, Stanford, and student athletes: how to build a sports spike

Today we’re going to start a series talking about specific student spikes. As many readers know, the building of a spike is something I talk about a lot in my Hopeless to Harvard admissions guide. Building a spike is critical to standing out in Ivy League admissions. Its critical to focusing your energies in your [...]

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How to transfer into Harvard or Stanford from your safety school

Okay let’s talk today about how to transfer to an Ivy League school. There are a few scenarios: either you applied to some Ivy League schools and didn’t get in, or you didn’t apply but realized you made a mistake and now you’re a freshman and you realize you would like to attempt a transfer [...]

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How to get into Stanford – the value of being a maverick and playing sports

Okay so now let’s talk about Stanford. Stanford is unique in that it’s technically not an Ivy League school and yet it’s at the caliber of probably the best Ivy League schools in the country. Stanford is different as well in that it’s the only school of its caliber on the West Coast and in [...]

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How to get into Wharton and the University of Pennsylvania – the power of business and international exposure

So before we get started, I wanted to give you guys a few updates. The first update is that I’ve actually added a few bonuses to Hopeless to Harvard. These bonuses are a really interesting they were fun for me to do and I think they’ll be extremely interesting for you guys to listen to. [...]

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