<p>You want to be a business major. Good for you. I assume you'll want your post graduate MBA? If that's the case, you'll want to go to an ivy for that, not for your undergraduate. </p>
<p>Maybe you can afford/get-aid/whatever and go to an ivy for BOTH undergrad and grad school. However, be careful that you don't end up in a situation where you go to Harvard undergrad, but for whatever reason end up at Crap State University to get your MBA. </p>
<p>And a B- is not the end of the world, especially in the first semester of freshmen year. One would hope you would be an attractive candidate for reasons other that your 4.0, or 3.9 <em>gasp</em>. Do you do your extracurriculars relating to business? Can you write an essay about what you learned from investing your summer job earnings in the market? Do you volunteer to teach poor people about basic financial sense, i.e. payday loans are not your friend? Spend less time worrying about getting a <em>gasp</em> 3.9, and more time trying to find out why you would be a better business major than some other person.</p>
<p>First of all, your a freshman. All you need to do for now is get good grades and lay the groundwork you need to get into a few leadership positions in clubs, MAYBE start a club if you feel the need. Worry about college next year. Next, it seems like you are a motivated student but a word of advice, if you immediately ignore all other colleges and take whichever ivy league school sends you an acceptance letter, there is a large chance you will end up very unhappy. Ivy schools arent everything (though they are very good. take a look at the "Why Ivies?" thread) Lastly, a 1070 is not a bad SAT score and the 7th grade SAT means nothing. My friend scored a 980 on the 7th grade SAT scored a 2390 on the new SAT and a 35 on the ACT, so dont stress out about it. Colleges are moving farther and farther away from the SATs, so i suggest taking the PLAN test if you can.</p>
<p>I was kidding, so don't panic IvyLeagueFreak. Though you give the impression of paranoia or even psychosis, I really do hold highly on how you are thinking years ahead of your peers. With your devotion and dedication, you'll do fine.</p>
<p>Dude, just calm down, do well in school, develop your interests in a variety of areas, and ENJOY the rest of your most memorable years of youth. Hehe, I laughed so hard when you said that you need a "Four Year Plan" << Sounds like one of those rigid Soviet economic Five Year Plans under stalin...:)</p>
<p>I agree, breathe - CC is seriously caught up, as is the rest of America, with this sick ivy league consumerism. If your achievement ends at going to an ivy league school you haven't been very successful - don't tie yourself down to ivy because you believe its the only place that you believe you can be successful.</p>
<p>Yeah... there are so many awesome colleges with the same level of education as Ivy League. The more selective a school is, the more competitive ---> the more desirable. Do you want Ivy League for prestige or education?</p>
<p>But I think it's good to start preparing now, but don't focus your life on overachieverism. I know you probably don't want to hear this, but relax! chillax! haha... Okay, so I'm only in 8th grade and I want to go to Cornell.. but not for its prestige.. its campus. And I know that that doesn't really prove any point I'm trying to make, but don't kill yourself in high school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't want to be all adult-ish on you cause you're a year older than me......... but just do ECs you really want to do, and a B once in a while is O.K. I actually want at least 3 Bs... well not really... but all As is kind of creepy for me to see... even though it'd be good to get all As. ^.^</p>
<p>Don't fixate on Wharton or whatever just because of prestige--there are tons of other great business schools that would certainly allow for a successful career. Realize that NOW so that you're not devastated if you don't get in years from now (and, yes, also realize that you'll be applying in YEARS).</p>
<p>For now, just do the best you can. You don't want to be the academically successful kid that everyone hates (at my school, there are kind of 2 kids in the running for valedictorian and everyone hates one of them because he's like that), and you sure as hell don't want your senior superlative to be "Ivy League Freak." ;)</p>
<p>upenn and mit are very difficult to get into. assuming you'll get 2300+ sats and 96+ gpa the difference bet you and others would be your EC. get those interns</p>
<p>You are so going to end up looking back on this and regretting what you are doing.</p>
<p>and yes, a B- does look like crap. and saying that the "honors" English class is difficult is just a lie to yourself. The colleges don't know how hard it is, but many other panicky freshman that take an honors English class get A's, not B-'s.</p>
<p>Save yourself the stress and just do what you want to do, not for the look on the resume. Colleges like genuine students who really have passions, not who load up their summers with NIH interships to look good on paper.</p>
<p>I was so into the "top" schools forever. but then I realized none of them have the dynamic I wanted.
and all the ivies are unique as far as dynamic so you cannot have the same experience at any of them. one of them you could love, and hate the others. look at schools that aren't ivy, maybe aren't ever top 20.</p>
<p>-sry, i'm a sophomore and it was necessary that i do that. anyway, a B- isn't going to hurt him. Especially in freshman year, which most colleges for ignore all slip ups during.</p>
<p>you should note that in fact, university of pennsylvania is the ONLY ivy league school with an actual business school. cornell offers its hotel school which is a business school only even more specialized.</p>
<p>i'm not going to give you crap about studying for the sat from the 7th grade (i did it, but only in the summers - depressing in its own right) and i have reaped the rewards of top scores. however, my friends who did not start anywhere near as early as me have done just as well.</p>
<p>seriously, do what you want to do. i promise. look for community service opportunities that you actually would enjoy participating in, especially if they're out of the norm. it seems to me like you're trying to construct the stereotypical ivy applicant resume- and what happens is so many of those get rejected. for your own mental health AND for the good of your application, find a passion unique to you.</p>
<p>I get B-'s as a senior (granted in only one class and it is an AP) and I still got into 3 Ivies. I didn't start SAT prep until I was a junior and I never took a class (my parents refused to pay $1000 for me to learn how to take a test. "Just take it as if it where a school test" they told me -_-), I just bought books that had practice questions in them and I still did extremely well on the SAT. And don't just focus on Ivy league schools. MIT's Sloan is excellent, as are NYU's Stern, Georgetown's McDonough, UC Berkeley's Haas, Virginia's McIntire...The list goes on and on. And notice how many Ivies I named.</p>