What are my chances to get into an ivy league?

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<p>Hi.
I am in my junior year in high school.
My grades in my first year was 3.92 and of my second year was 3.84 because of some complications in my personal project (IB).
I am Asian (korean to be specific) and I came to Chile at age 7. I speak three languages fluently (english, spanish and korean)…
I go to an English school which is ranked as the top 3 in Chile and I am in the top 10% of my generation.
I was class president in my first year, got the first place in a physics Olympics and was in the debate team.
And in my second year, I was class vice president and I participated in the physics Olympics and my team got the first place and I went to a Chemistry National Olympics where I got to top 18. But, I didn’t have a very good result in my personal project (3.2 to be exact) which lowered my average a bit.
I play volleyball and I am in a physics club…
I’ve had 4.0 in math and above 3.8 in most of the other subjects
I haven’t taken the SAT yet or any other tests.
But I am taking IB physics, maths and english lit higher level and spanish, biology and psychology standard level.</p>

<p>I don’t know if this list of things are really going to help me calculate my chances to get to an ivy league, but I want to ask some questions:</p>

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<li>Is the personal project result going to affect in my admission process? My school counts the personal project as a subject… is there any possibility for me to take that out in my application form?</li>
<li>My grades lowered down a little bit between the first year and the second. Will that affect my chances? Even if in my junior and senior year I do better?</li>
<li>What does the college see and consider important in the admission process, besides the SAT scores? In other words, what other things (extracurricular activities, etc.) could I do in my next two years I have left that could help me increase the chances of being accepted to an ivy league?</li>
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<p>Thank you :)</p>

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<p>Can you specify which Ivy League? </p>

<p>Grades are important and might be a concern for your school - definitely work on boosting them!</p>

<p>As for importance for an upper-tier school; try to do your best in something unique that’ll make you stand out from the crowd. I know this sounds like a load of repetitive crap (just about everyone says this) but from what I’ve seen, it helped a ton. My girlfriend got into MIT and she had national sailing competitions, another person I know got into Princeton who had extreme geography/trivia/social studies, I got into Princeton off of a combination of moderately unusual stuff (I think, still have no clue how I made it!) and my other friend got into Dartmouth for his unique focus on aquatic and native american studies. </p>

<p>It’s not the test scores that matter as much as the stuff you do that makes you so special to universities. The only way to get something worth noting is to take something you truly love and just RUN with it: to the moon, to the stars, to levels beyond what you ever thought you were capable of doing!</p>

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<p>Thank you GenApo for your answer :slight_smile:
What I wanted to say with Ivy League is Harvard, John’s Hopkins and Yale, but especially Yale… Still, I am considering Princeton too (I like their system) :slight_smile:
Thanks for your advice!!</p>

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<p>I would say your chances for an ivy are rather low</p>