StevenJPenny

Have you looked at MIT? They have a great chemistry program. I think that you are competitive.

ab2013

You're extremely modest. You have a chance. Can you chance me too? Please chance me ... I'd really really appreciate it!

Your grades are strong and your SAT is good. Take more SAT IIs, but you don't need to retake Chem. 740 is already a pretty good score. If you're school doesn't offer that many APs, the Ivies will understand that part. Just make sure you make your courseload as challenging as possible. By all means, take Honors classes if you have to. Your ECs do look decent, and Latin sounds quite exotic compared to the Spanish/French everyone else has.

Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford - high reach (they're difficult to predict)
Dartmouth/Brown - slight reach
Cornell - match

I think I'm missing a few Ivies .... but you look like a solid candidate. Make sure you have some safeties and good luck!

aminhamenina

As much as I hate to be negative (and you must know that I say this while fully cognizant of your significant chances), I feel like in such a competitive year you might have trouble standing out. You have decent SATs for Ivies, decent class rank, below average rigor in your schedule, below average EC's. Nothing jumps, you know? It's not a personal comment; it's more a concern with how you show up on a piece of paper.

But if you really want to do chem or something along those lines just go to Cornell. It's bigger so it's easier to get into, and it has a fantastic science program. But also think about what kind of campus you want, location, size, academic attitude (pre-prof a la UPenn/Cornell or something vs. love of learning a la UChi/Yale/Brown). You're going to sound a lot better if you have conviction in a couple of reaches rather than having your parents nudge you into an upper echelon.

bdl108

You're definitely capable of getting into an Ivy League school. I'd say Cornell and Penn would be good for you. and you have to apply to BC dude..both of your parents went there.. with your grades and scores i'd say ur a shoe-in.

toastmaster

What about Northwestern?

toastmaster

roar ?

highschooler09

Duke?

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toastmaster

not a fan. anyone have any ideas for Northwestern?

Ozymandias66

Your stats are def very impressive and will qualify you academically for NU. A lot of people have brought up the shortcomings of your EC's but I think they might overlook that for the impressive academic record.

Northwestern's sciences are very strong and there are a lot of departments in which they are represented esp in College of A&S and engineering. ISP (Integrated Science Program) is a really good science program, although that is all I really know about it, sorry (i study on the opposite side of the academic spectrum).
I don't know if difficulty translates to "good" but Northwestern chemistry courses are notoriously difficult (and little grade inflation, somewhere like an average of B- in inorganic and an average of C+ for organic). People have opted to take orgo at Harvard just to avoid NU's curriculum and even there Northwestern often refuses to offer credit recognition. At least in inorganic and organic chem, there will be a lot of people going through pre-med studies and thus not very passionate about it at all. That said, though, I would imagine higher level chem courses would still be very good with the added benefit of students that are genuinely interested in the subject. But at any school, whether it be ivy, northwestern, or not, I would think there would be similar disinterest in inorganic and organic chem among students mainly because almost everybody tries to be pre-med at one point in their undergrad years and these two classes are always required.

That's my two cents; I hope somebody with more knowledge and actual experience with the chemistry department will be able to jump in and cover what I have not.

Ozymandias66

Oh, and if it isnt clear from what I said, Northwestern (unlike Cornell) does not separate Pre-meds from actual science students. That said though, once you get past 200 level organic chem, there should not be any premeds left in your classes anyways.