<p>I am a rising Junior and I am starting to consider what colleges I could potentially be accepted to.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.97</p>
<p>I took the plan test and it estimated my ACT score to be between 31 and 34</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-Gymnastics (I am on varsity gymnastics at my high school. I have also done club gymnastics since I was 3. My high school coach nominated me for an athletic leadership class at my school. I will hopefully be captain.)
-Private math tutor for junior high students (I posted fliers around my town to start a business in tutoring pre-algebra and algebra students.)
-Member of Boys and Girls Club (We run the art program at the local boys and girls club)
-Assistant teacher of sunday school at my church
-Hopefully senior year I will be a senior helper. (Senior Helpers work with freshman advisories to help with the transition into high school)</p>
<p>I am looking at colleges like Duke, Penn, Brown, and Cornell. However, I know these schools are very competitive and I don’t know if I would have a good chance of getting in. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>*** is this bull **** about lower ivies? sorry, I don’t normally curse like that. The level of a school is entirely based on what you’re going for. I’m pretty sure a music degree from Eastman looks better than a music degree from Harvard and Eastman isn’t an ivy. And going to Penn for business is better than going to Yale or Harvard for business. So don’t try and say any one is better than the other. The only reason people try to say HYP are best is because they’re the oldest and have the most recognition to the name as far as bragging to parents goes. But they’re not better necessarily.</p>
<p>Anyway, moving on. Nobody can really give you accurate chances until you take the actual tests. Also you need to list what classes you’ve taken and if any were IB or AP then you need to list the scores. And putting the PLAN thing doesn’t help since your score range is so big. your range is like someone saying “I’ll get somewhere between a 2100 and a 2400 on the SAT” (that’s not a direct conversion obviously, but you get the point). so make a new thread at the end of junior year. a lot of stuff can change by then</p>