<p>I’m a junior in high school. I joined the IB DP. This year I will be taking:
IB History HL
IB English HL
IB Spanish SL
IB Math SL
IB Psychology SL
Physics (regular)
I’m taking IB Biology HL senior year (at my school it’s only a 1 year course).
I have never taken an AP class and don’t plan to.
I have over 90 hours of community service completed and I plan on doing 50 more this year for CAS, so 140 community service hours overall.
I will be part of 2-3 clubs overall. (No sports).
My weighted GPA is in the 3.80-4.00 range. I plan on keeping it that way over the next two years.
Haven’t taken the SAT yet but I took practice tests that predict my score to be in the 1600-1800 range.
I want to do pre-med. Do you have any recommendations of colleges that I should look at? Also, what are my chances of getting into an ivy league?</p>
<p>With a 1600 to 1800 extremely, extremely low.</p>
<p>What is your unweoghted GPA.</p>
<p>My school does not tell us our unweighted GPA so I do not know.
I’m aware that 1600-1800 is low, I’ve been studying this summer and trying to bring it up to a 2000.
I am hoping that if I do score in that range, the rigor of my courses + community service hours + extracurricular activities will give me a good chance to get into a good university. What do you think?</p>
<p>Can you do any more community service? I don’t mean to discourage you but a lot of ppl will have 300-400 by college app time? You can probably get into a lot of good schools, just not what you would consider top 100. If you can get your SAT past 2000 that would be really nice. And do you have any hooks?</p>
<p>^^^
I agree.
I think the Ivy League is out of reach for you. Even a 2000 is low.</p>
<p>What state do you live in?</p>
<p>I could probably get to 200-300 community service hours. And I live in New England, U.S.A. I don’t feel comfortable specifying which state.</p>
<p>In terms of college, it’s not that I want to actually GO to an ivy league. I just want to be accepted to at least 1. About every year there are 2-3 IB kids at my school who get accepted to an ivy league. I would like to be one of them. It’s a goal I have.</p>
<p>I think a high-ranking non-Ivy league college would be better for me because ivy leagues don’t have as much grade inflation. I would prefer a university with a strong pre-med program that allows you to earn your bachelors’ and medical degree at once. Either that or one that has grade inflation but no med school, so applying to med school won’t be a difficult process for me. Do you have any suggestions?</p>
<p>Why are you even applying to Ivy League schools if you have no interest in attending one of them? Also, you have been misinformed if you think that they have no grade inflation. For most of them, the exact opposite is true.</p>
<p>No offense, but I think you don’t really have a clue about how hard it is to get into an Ivy. A 2000 (which you haven’t acheived) is below the 25th percentile for all Ivies. Also, why are you applying to them if you don’t want to attend any of them? It’s a waste of money, time, and effort, if you’re not considering attending.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to put you down. A 1500 is the average score, so a 1600-1800 isn’t a bad score. It’s just not going to get you into Ivies.</p>
<p>I think you should look at Baylor. They have a good medical school and a BS/MD program which offers provisional acceptance to their medical school (which is shared with Rice). Their SAT 25-75 range is 1650-1980, which is right in your range.</p>
<p>I’m just guessing, but I would assume that medical schools know when your good grades are because of grade inflation rather than actually performing well. I don’t know. </p>
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<p>You can calculate one yourself to get a general idea. </p>
<p>For a one-credit class, let:</p>
<p>A = 4.0 points
B= 3.0 points
C = 2.0 points
D = 1.0 points
F = 0 points</p>
<p>(For a half-credit class, divide all those by two, and so on.)</p>
<p>Add up your grade points from all the classes you’ve taken, and divide by the total number of credits attempted. (Pass/fail classes, if you’ve taken them, are not counted into your GPA.)</p>
<p>Some other things:</p>
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<li><p>It doesn’t matter whether your advanced classes were designed by the College Board or not. IB is just as good as AP. </p></li>
<li><p>Community service doesn’t matter nearly as much as people think it does. No application form will ever ask you how many community service hours you have. Colleges want you to have ECs where you show dedication and leadership. These ECs can involve community service, but they do not have to. Having 300 hours rather than 140 will not help much.</p></li>
<li><p>Every school weights GPA differently, so colleges don’t care about the weighted GPA that your school calculates. </p></li>
<li><p>The Ivy League almost definitely isn’t happening. </p></li>
<li><p>The average SAT score is around 1500, so 1600-1800 isn’t a “low” SAT score in the grand scheme of things. You’ll want to look at colleges where the median score of successful applicants is lower than what you got. </p></li>
<li><p>It might be better to post this in the College Search forum. </p></li>
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<p>Questions:
- What’s your class rank?
- How long have you been in the 2-3 clubs, and do you have leadership positions?
- Do you need financial aid?
- What kind of college do you want to go to? University, LAC, etc.? </p>
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<p>A lot of the lower top-100 universities accept almost all their applicants, so I’m quite sure the OP could get into a top 100 school. It just wouldn’t be one of the more selective ones.</p>