I’m a freshmen ranked 5 of 297 currently. Mostly because I got my gym credit out of the way. My school is a rural public, where about 3 or so student usually go to top schools such as the ivies and Stanford and MIT.
Grades: 4.0/4.0 unweighted, 5.38/6.0 weighted. Taking 1 AP this year, next year I’m taking 4. Both of those numbers are the max Ap’s you can take. I’m self studying AP comparative government this year, and am taking AP bio over the summer throughly Johns Hopkins CTY.
EC’s: Varsity Cross country, varsity indoor track, and varsity outdoor track. I will not be good enough to run at any top school most likely. Formed the model UN team, where I’m co captain. And formed the CASA club where I’m the president and we raise funds for the organization CASA and we are planning a race in April for the organization where I’ve already raised $2,000 in sponsorship. I’m also a member of key club (service), student council, am on the class council (lost for president this year, thinking about running for Vice President next year which might be an easy win since no body ran last time- opinions on this too please), acts of kindness club (service), Fellowship of Cristian athletes, and kids helping Hopkins (service). I know it’s a lot of clubs but we have an hour each day where you can either go to lunch for an hour or go to two clubs (half hour each). I think I’ll probably run for a further role in one of these clubs in the future, most likely kids helping Hopkins. Honor societies start in 11th grade and I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to get into all of them because most students can.
Adding on to that, I started a program sending care packages to students who age out of the rotor care system. What are my chances of getting into an Ivy League school? What should I improve? Thanks so much!!
Now I am no expert, but I did notice a glaring problem. You’re a freshman. Colleges don’t want to admit freshmen. Thankfully you can improve this in time. Why, in two years you could be a junior!
I see the hate you’re getting being a freshman, but good for you I was the same way. One thing I will caution you with is that things change in high school it’s just a fact. It’s too hard to say what will happen yet. You don’t need to follow your 4 year plan without variance. I remember I planed on taking 2 AP classes senior year and now I’m taking 5 and I had friends that went the other way. I think the most important thing as a freshman and sophomore is to try to get ahead of the college search and keep your grades up. The College Board has a great college search feature if you want to look into that, remember that the top 20 schools aren’t the only ones out there and probably not all the ivy’s are a perfect fit for you. Also unless you plan on going into civil service your EC’s have little direction towards your career, not that that’s necessarily a bad thing you need to have fun too.