You sure about that?
OK I read into a lot of things. I guess as an older adult, I’ve earned that. So first things first. The name that you chose as your poster name: “total trash” shows me a couple of things.
1.). that you don’t think things are going so great for you either emotionally or academically. Or:
2.) that you don’t respect what you’ve taken already?
I don’t think you understand yet, that it’s not how many AP’s you can get on your laundry list. The colleges and universities wont consider students that take AP courses independent of the classes.
They want to hear what you can do in the classroom because you WILL attend classes at any university and they want to know what your teachers say about you.
It’s about your high school experience in how you approach the next couple of years.
Where is your guidance counselor in all of this? It isn’t a race.
Why ivies?
It is a sport conference. I don’t see any mention about your recruitable sport? Have you spoken to any Ivy coaches about your sport. How many years have you played your sport?
Each ivy school is vastly different. You can’t lump them all together. Are your parents going to pay $90,000 a year for you to attend these schools?
The Ivy League schools focus on a broad liberal arts and some minor STEM educational options. The schools are small for a reason. They like to keep them small.
Most of the slots already “pre-filled”. They are filled by recruitable athletes, underrepresented minorities, children of senators, celebrities, or famed Olympic representatives. There are students, world-wide, of exceptional musical, artistic, or creative caliber. There are the students who by luck or chance, have parents who can donate millions of dollars to add buildings or pavilions to those campuses. Do you fit in one of these categories?
Oh and there’s that little thing called the SATs. A number of the students in the ivy schools can get perfect scores without batting an eyelid.
As for AP Spanish, the test and coursework are hard. I’m a native speaker. My children took 4 years of Spanish courses. They were smart because they didn’t have time to take another labor-intensive AP course. I’m sure they would’ve done well, but they were busy and liked their sports and their part-time jobs.
Yes, all three got into top 20 schools, but only one attended a top 10 by choice. If a school is an Ivy, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it “fits” you. Lots of students with perfect SATs and perfect GPAs and perfect extracurricular activities get rejected by the ivies.
So again I ask, why an Ivy school?