<p>Basically I am a sophomore (that’s 10th grade right?) and I have huge aspirations to get into medical school. My grades are okay, I am sitting high 80’s low 90’s. I have strong Extra Curriculars (swimming in bronze cross, school badminton team singles each year, advanced jazz dancing for 2 years, professional singing for 1 and a half, I used to do piano for 4 years but quit when I moved, I have volunteered over 500 hours around the city and at day camps, and on 3 volunteering steering committees, with one at my school, in my school play for 2 years) I know that in Canada we completely disregard the SAT’s so how does it work here? With all my provincial exams I have had excellent and 4 acceptable… Would it be harder for me to get in because I am a foreign student? I’m attending Sir Winston Churchill High School in Calgary and almost every year we get visits from Ivy League schools doing presentations to get us to apply (Churchill is the top public school in Calgary) They offer IB, I’m not taking it, but should I? What else should I do to get into an Ivy school? anything to suggest? Thanks!
PS. Do pageants help or decrease your chance of getting in? Me and my friend were debating this during lunch, and she says it helps, but I honestly doubt it. Thanks.</p>
<p>I think you’re doing pretty well so far. I’m a sophie too, but in a relatively new school that’s no way the top school in Ontario. Your ECs and volunteer hours are good too. Ivy League schools usually want their applicants to take the hardest possible courses in high school, and at the same time, take courses that say something about what they want to do in the future. So, for example, if you want to be in the arts, you shouldn’t take law just because its the hardest. Enjoy your high school career, thats what people tell me… They always tell me to stop stressing out because i’m only in 10… but good job so far!</p>