My admissions prospects

Colleges & Universities Cornell University
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<p>I need to see if I need to find more safety schools or not depending on how likely I am to be accepted at an Ivy League school.
Gender: Female
Race: White and middle class
Geographic Location: Northeast Ohio
Class Rank: #1
AP classes(I will be taking every one offered at my school and I have not taken the tests yet because I am still a junior, and unless hell freezes over I will stay #1 in my class): Calculus AB and BC, Chemistry, Biology, American History, Government, 2 AP english classes, Psychology and Statistics
Extracurriculers:

  1. Orchestra: I play the viola and am in my school orchestra, my school honors orchestra, the Cleveland Contemporary Youth Orchestra currently and the Baldwin Wallace outreach orchestras my freshman and sophmore year
  2. I am the captain of my flag core for my senior year and have been involved in it since sophmore year
  3. Mock trail: sophmore and junior year
    4)NHS
    5)Northeast Ohio Shakespeare competition (I won my school’s chapter)
  4. Drama club: freshman and sophmore year
  5. stage crew: junior year
  6. Look up to Cleveland: a leadership program that has encompassed the whole year that I was nominated for by my school and includes top students from many schools in the area
  7. I will be interning at NASA Glenn this summer
  8. so far I have 100 community service hours logged, I hope to have 200 by application time</p>

<p>Any help regarding my prospects is much appreciated. I know the Ivy League intitutions are scary competitive and I just want an honest opinion. And lastly, I absolutely love both Dartmouth and Cornell and have almost no interest in the other Ivies, and I have been told that interest is a big factor.</p>

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<p>I just realized I forgot to post my GPA. Its 4.5 unwieghted</p>

3

<p>Unweighted GPA is on a 4.0 scale. It can’t go higher than 4.0 unless your school does it differently (which would basically be weighted).</p>

<p>SAT? PSAT?</p>

<p>Have safeties no matter what, because for every valedictorian there are thousands more from thousands of other schools. Not all of those valedictorians will get in. And the Ivies don’t fill their classes with only vals.</p>

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<p>o oops i feel dumb now. its weighted :P. And my ACT was a 29 and I’m taking it again soon. PSATwas a 109 overall. And any safeties you would recommend? I’m thinking the University of Michigan and I’m visiting Boston college tomorrow. I was also thinking about University of California at Berkeley.</p>

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<p>Make sure you have some colleges that represent solid safeties. The ones you’ve listed are not safeties. You have a great profile, but they will also look at your GPA relative to the quality of your high school, etc. The colleges you choose should offer the program you want and the type of campus, etc. Seniors are also learning that it’s not just your scores and GPA, to bodangles point. </p>

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<p>PSAT was 109 overall? That is quite low… are you sure that’s correct?</p>

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<p>I’d say let 'er rip!</p>

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<p>Get your ACT up to 33 if possible. It isn’t too difficult, just study a bit before the next test. UMich is not a safety at 29 as an OOS student. For that matter, UC Berkley and BC are not safeties for you (or the majority of people) either. Take it from a fellow Valedictorian who got rejected / waitlisted by all the ivies I applied to, you can’t rest on your laurels. Also just a word of warning, UMich gave me absolutely no aid as a middle-class OOS student. Good luck!</p>