<p>Hey I was wondering what you guys think of my chances </p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 UW/ 4.3ish W at the moment
Rigor of coursework: most rigorous possible 11 APs by end of senior year (more AP classes than anyone else at my school but not more weighted classes)
Rank: will be 1 out of 800 or so
Test Scores
SAT: 2400 Essay: 10
ACT: 35 Essay: 11
SAT 2’s: just took them predictions:
Bio: 800
Math 2: 800
US History: 760-790 </p>
<p>EC’s:
Boy Scouts 9-12 with leadership positions in it (may or may not get Eagle by time of admissions)
Academic Team (last year we won 3rd in state of ohio, this year conference champions again and our conference tournament champions, captain of my grade level each year with senior captain next year) 10-12
Chess Team (will be featured in CHess Life for proactive promotion of Chess, 1st team all conference, won a tournament probably going to be in more, captain junior and senior year) 10-12
NHS 11-12
Science Olympiads 10-12 (3 place at regionals in individual competition, 4th place in a state one, student coach/captain senior year)
Church Youth group (I’m LDS) many leadership roles involved with church
Venture Crew (extension of boy scouts with a leadership role)
Hopefully hospital volunteering this fall (can’t start till september because they only offer youth orientation 3 times a year)
Student government representative 12
Freshman Soccer Team
Intramural Sports </p>
<p>Awards:
Who’s Who 2 years
National Honor Roll 2 years
National Society of High School Scholars
NHS
Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award
Michelson-Morley Math and Science Award
Order of the Arrow Member (Scouting’s Honor Society)
USAA Leadership and Service Award Winner
A few other regional awards </p>
<p>Recommendations: Impossibly amazing (except for perhaps counseler who was new this year since my last one retired…) </p>
<p>Essays: Good enough, possibly a very defining strength </p>
<p>I’m probably going to apply to every Ivy except Columbia; my preference:
Harvard
Brown/Yale
Princeton
Dartmouth
UPenn
Cornell </p>
<p>and some others probably:
Caltech
MIT
Stanford
maybe Northwestern/University of Chicago </p>
<p>and my penniless safeties
OSU
BYU
Miami UNiversity- Oxford Ohio
University of Cincinnati maybe </p>
<p>I don’t care about LAC’s so no “matches” </p>
<p>I’m going into biology/cell bio/molecular bio/biomedical science with hopes of later attending medical school might minor/double major in history or political science </p>
<p>You can probably get into all of your safeties. Probably Cornell to. You have a very good chance in all of the other Ivy League schools, but you never really can tell. Good Luck!!</p>
<p>lol wegman22.
let’s take out the single word “impossibly” from my recommendations line and lower my SAT to 2200 and my ACT to 33. Am I overweeningly arrogant now. Seriously…
I put my stats in the PRinceton Review Counseler-O-matic which said all the ivys except Cornell and Yale (subequently matches) were reaches, which seems about right.
I’ll fix your brain for free when an aneurysm bursting nearly blows it apart Wegman22. (want to go into neurosurgery possibly)</p>
<p>Yale is NOT a match for you, don’t trust that computer evaluater. Yale is a match for nobody, especially not someone with ECs that are as run-of-the mill as yours are. What makes you special? What makes you stand apart? Where’s your passion? I don’t see it and Ivies probably won’t either, they get plently of applicants with test scores and grades that are better than yours and ECs that are focused and interesting. You’ll get into your safties and perhaps one of your reaches if lucky.</p>
<p>By the way, Who’s Who is a joke, don’t put it on your application, college admissions officers will only know you fell for their scam.</p>
<p>though I am no titan as you are, my grades and test scores are perfect . for everywhere except Harvard and Princeton (everyone else is going to 2 subject tests and I won’t show my ACT) even my Subject tests will be perfect. Harvard’s 2400 percent admit is a little over 50%; I’m hoping my test scores make up for my less than amazing EC’s. BUt seriously just a month ago or so, i never knew what kind of crazy EC wako stuff existed outside of my town of Fairfield, Ohio. My essay and recommandations will evince the passion.</p>
<p>Princeton Review’s Counselor O Matic is notoriously flawed.</p>
<p>And I think you should halve your Ivies, not because you won’t get into any, but because they’re so darn different. Harvard might take kid A, but Brown will straight up reject them, depending on what each schools values/needs in a given year.</p>
<p>Obviously, your numbers are great. I am wary of accepting predictions (especially for APs) though. Your academic teams and boy scout activities are great. But you have no community service. And the freshman soccer team isn’t doing anything for your app.</p>
<p>You need to write a good essay (and your SAT scores are not an indication of the quality of your writing). And you need to make sure that your recs are more than ‘So and so is really smart.’ Give your teachers information about your activities and your interests so that they can mention them in your letters; do the same with your counselor.</p>
<p>i have a bunch of odd job community service totaling above 100 hours with combined NHS, Boy Scouts, and other community activities (though that really isn’t that much). but i will have my eagle scout project (lots of hours) done before admissions just maybe not the award.
Why should I not apply to all the ivys? I don’t want to miss the one who wants a student like me, and I do want at least a little selection since I’ll probably make it into at least 2 (hopefully lol). However, I do think people underestimate the power of the mythically elusive 2400; college admissions percentages for the ivys jumps way up as scores go way up at the top percentile. Also most of the decrease in admission percentage we see is just the colleges intentionally increasing their presence among applicants who have no chance as to make themselves appear better than they truly are in rankings. I will EA Yale most likely so I can participate in the yield increasing ultimate irrationality of these “top” schools.</p>
<p>By all means go EA to your top choice. And obviously the 2400 is amazing.</p>
<p>But personally, I just think that one individual is not going to be a good fit at Dartmouth AND Yale, etc. The schools are just too different. And if you are able to identify what you want specifically in a school and why you want to go there, your odds of admission increase. Applying because it’s an ivy can come across in an application or interview really easily and for some schools can really lower your appeal.</p>
<p>You ignore the fact that while 50% of the 2400s might get accepted at Harvard, the other half get rejected. That’s HALF of the people who score PERFECTLY on the ultimate standardized test in the nation. I’m not saying you’re not getting in, I’m saying don’t lean too heavily on that 2400, because there’s an equally good chance it will collapse under you as support you. You need something to distinguish yourself, forget your test scores. You could easily bring it out in your essays (what is it by the way) but it will take some work and don’t assume that you’re automatically in to places like Yale when you clearly are not.</p>
<p>Actually all the Ivies except Columbia are similar enough. Personally I’d like most of them. There’s no truth to the notion that “focusing” has any help in getting in. My biggest regret was not applying to enough schools…</p>
<p>You are very arrogant and I hope colleges see that. And no, not all the Ivies are alike. Do a little more research and less of that gloating – you might get somewhere.</p>
<p>thanks ses don’t worry. Personally, I think that any of the ivys will give more than adequate preparation for med school for a biological science person such as myself. Dartmouth, Brown, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, and even Columbia will all do that well. Of course Harvard lures me more because of its inordinately large endowment, professors at the top of numerous fields, relevant research that interests me, a fairly large contingent of my faith, its residency system, and the prestige entailed that can’t be rationally ignored completely. Brown’s open curriculum and molecular biology preponderance is also very attracting, as I really want to glean as much knowledge as I can about myriad subjects while doing my undergraduate. Dartmouth has the weather that I like the most and a good pre-med program; in addition, this year’s valedictorian (who got rejected to all the other ivys), a very good friend of mine who is fairly similar to me (though weaker in community involvement, stronger in sports [he’s playing baseball at Dartmouth and probably would have been rejected without it], much weaker in test scores, a little weaker in intellectual vehemence but greater in depth and manifested conviction, with similar recommendations and probably a weaker essay), is going there. Stanford has such good research opportunities, weather, work ethic and extracurricular activities that it appeals to me greatly. I do know that my knowledge base concerning Yale, Princeton, and Cornell is lacking, but I might be going to a Conference at Yale at the end of this month on with a questbridge scholarship, which will hopefully enlighten me a bit about the university. However, I probably have the least chance of getting into Princeton out of all of them.
Calm down Southeasttitan, I’m not assuming anything. Personally I think if i can get my chances up to about 57% without rec’s and essays I can face chaos better than most people of similar state.</p>