<p>White male from NJ
Prestigious boarding school (~25% of class goes to Ivies, Stanford, MIT)</p>
<p>SAT I: 2370 (800 V+CR, 770 M)
SAT II: Will take in May</p>
<p>GPA: UW 3.9 (mostly A’s, handful of A-'s, couple of A+'s)
no weighted GPA, definitely in top 5%
4 APs this year, 4 next year</p>
<p>Editor-in-Chief of weekly school paper (was a prolific writer before that)
President of Young Democrats (organized with Corzine campaign last fall)
Religious Life Council (only atheist councilman)
Other miscellaneous stuff
Might become a prefect (yes, just like Harry Potter) </p>
<p>Summer jobs:
Camp counselor at sleepaway camp
Also volunteering with local Democratic Party</p>
<p>Will definitely have some strong teacher/counselor recommendations
Since writing is supposedly my strength, I’ll hopefully have good essays, which will stress my commitment to journalism and interest in politics and history.</p>
<p>Schools I’m interested in:(no order)
Amherst
Yale
Harvard
Brown
Swarthmore
Princeton
Hopkins (big legacy)
Tufts
Penn
Dartmouth
Chicago
Northwestern</p>
<p>cmon guys, i know what you’re thinking, “just another spoiled brat who tutored his sats and spit up his baby food on a crimson bib,” you couldn’t be more wrong.</p>
<p>roberto, that site only gives the percentages for HPY. I’m talking about all Ivies plus Stanford and MIT. I got to the Lawrenceville School. </p>
<p>jjjjj, if it seems i have weak ECs, I need to assure you that I do not. At my school, if you can manage to put your heart and time into one EC and excel at it, you’ve accomplished something important and rare. being editor-in-chief of the school paper is such a job, and i have decent other stuff to boot (like my work with the democrats). just because i don’t have frivolous junk thrown in there to take up space doesn’t mean i’m not doing stuff outside of the classroom.</p>
<p>my views aren’t set, jjjjj, but i’m looking for real and accurate feedback… i know my ECs are stronger than all but a few of my classmates, so i’m not really open to that line of criticism (at least not when you’re just saying “you suck”). if you thought, for instance, i could benefit from less focus and more breadth in more EC’s, that’s a legitimate comment.</p>
<p>you need to grow up. i’m trying to be honest with you by telling you that the expectation in the EC area are not as high at my school compared to public schools, simply because there are so many more non-EC commitments. if that’s your idea of cockiness, you’re my idea of stupidity.</p>
<p>I personally think you can get into anywhere you apply, and I don’t see why you are so worried. Also… just for my own curiosity, why do you mention what rate your school has of Ivy attenders. I don’t think that really matters, although it does say you are probably a rich white suburban boy… even though you said you weren’t</p>
<p>yeah, that perception makes me hate mentioning my school, but in my opinion, it’s one of the most important aspects of my application. if i went to my hometown public, had the same gpa and stats and ECs, I wouldn’t have a chance in hell. </p>
<p>i won’t deny the “white suburban boy” parts of your stereotype, though. and i think most of the kids from my school who go to ivies don’t fit that stereotype either.</p>
<p>actually, I went to a DC Public School, and that would usually help people who were applying to Ivies because I think the Ivies want the “poor public school student” to help their “rich-white-my daddy worked hard to get me into college” profile. But than again, I’m from the worst Public School System in America, and your public school may just be average so it wouldn’t help you.</p>
<p>jjjj is a moron for thinking that you will not get in anywhere. Lawrenceville is an elite school, and I do have many friends that went there and currently attend prestigious universities. I just think that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton will be reaches.</p>
<p>Question though. It seems that all of your schools would be reaches for most people. Why not aim for some matches such as UVA, Emory, Rice, or Duke?</p>