New England Prep School Kid: Are the Ivies calling?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I’m a junior right now. Lacrosse will also be a hook for me. I did summer study programs for two summers, but I’m doing lacrosse show cases this year.</p>

<p>I attend a New England Prep School(Kent). </p>

<p>PSAT: 202(Sophomore year…)(80 Math, 58 CR, 64 WS)
PSAT: 210(Practice beginning of Junior Year…)(80 Math, 63 CR and 67 WS)
Should I try to make my scores: 80 MAth, 700 CR, 700 WS? Would making my CR and WS higher help a large amount?</p>

<p>Mu Alpha Theta Honors society 3rd place national prize winner for a stat project
APs: APWH(5), AP Stats(4), AP Micro(5), AP Physics, AP BC Calc, APUSH(Currently enrolled in the last three)
Top 10% of my class, Dual sport varsity athlete, on merit/athletic/need scholarship to a New England Prep school(From TN as well; Not the usual area).</p>

<p>My GPA is a 4.8/6.0 unweighted.</p>

<p>Junior year classes: AP Phyics, AP BC Calc, APUSH, English, Honors Bio
Senior year Classes: AP Bio, Post-Calc, English, AP Chemistry(Or not) and three term contained courses or I can take an AP History. I was thinking about Con law, Capitalism and business ethics for three term contained courses…</p>

<p>I’m a big Model UN guy, Math Team, I participate in REACH(Community help), Investment Club, Republican Club, School lit magazine(I wrote a 17 page short story about a coach that changed my life and I think I will be an AP Scholar with distinctions.</p>

<p>I attend a boarding school in the NE(On scholarship; Merit, Athletic and Need).</p>

<p>What are my chances? Anything I should focus on? Am I a long shot? Should I apply ED/RD?
I may need financial aid, if I got in ED and my family can’t pay what happens?
If my family income is about 195k… I have a younger brother and we support dying grandparents… Can I suspect at least 15k in FA?</p>

<p>List of Schools in relative order of choice <em>=Lacrosse interest
Intended Major: Business
-UPenn Wharton</em>
-Columbia
-Princeton<em>-Harvard</em>
-Yale<em>-Northwestern Kellogg
-University of Chicago-UC Berk-Middlebury</em>
-MIT<em>-Stanford
-Brown</em>-Syracuse
-Bryant*
-U of Illinois Urbana Honors College
-UVA Honors College
-Colgate*
-Salisbury*</p>

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<p>Can I get some love?</p>

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<p>The coaches recruiting you will tell you the combination of GPA and SAT they’ll need to get you past admissions.</p>

<p>Depending on other family assets and how the schools treat the grandparents, aid is tougher to guess. MY guess is you only have a chance of $15K at HYP. Penn is probably the worst ivy for aid. If you have a home with any equity, any investments…I’d expect none.</p>

<p>And don’t forget, the first aid may well be loans and work study at those that still have loans.</p>

<p>Why not one of the top schools that can give athletic scholarships?</p>

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<p>I’m honestly a top DIII or middle tier DI athlete. In Lacrosse, the NCAA only allows 12.5 Scholarships per team… So that means that I can expect 1/4 of a scholarship on average. Lacrosse is not really a full ride sport sadly…</p>

<p>Financial aid isn’t the biggest concern… We can pay for about 20k a year right now. So, I mainly want to get into a great college.</p>

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<p>Yes, but most of the schools you’re looking at are unlikely to give a family making $195K over $30K/yr. So you probably need to look at schools that can give you that one-quarter scholarship and/or academic merit aid schools.</p>

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<p>Okay. Let’s say finances aren’t a concern(I’m going to apply for a post boarding school extension of my scholarship)… Any advice in that case?</p>