Advice Please WOOOOOOOOO

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I have always dreamed of going to Ivy League, Stanford, or Cal Tech.</p>

<p>It truly is all I think about. I am a junior and I would like your advice of my chances at this moment and how I can increase them. Thanks in advance!</p>

<p>White
Male
Better than average public high school (about 2nd in state)</p>

<p>GPA- unweighted- 4.0</p>

<p>Most rigorous courses I can take.</p>

<p>Junior- 3 AP's- Physics B, Calculus BC, Us History (APUSH)
Senior- 4 AP's- Literature (English), Government Politics, Biology or Chemistry (will decide), and Statistics (already took Calc BC).</p>

<p>There are also honor classes I took in every grade (as many as I could take).</p>

<p>Harvard University</p>

<p>Attended SSP - Calculus I and Fundamentals to Music. Received A's in both and top 10% in both classes. Will get recommendation from Calc teacher, should be really good.</p>

<p>Applying to internship this summer in medical field.</p>

<p>Community Service</p>

<p>Volunteer at top 10 in the country hopsital as escort- 4 hours per week- total of around 300 hours</p>

<p>Volunteered at Day Care center (7th-10th grade) about 150 hours.</p>

<p>Key Club (10,11,12)- Key Club Representative (11)- 50 hours</p>

<p>Musical Experience</p>

<p>Harvard (stated above)
Jazz Band (10,11,12)- Zero Period
Wind Ensemble (10,11,12)- First Sax
Pep Band (9,10,11,12)- Football/ Basketball games</p>

<p>Play clarinet, acoustic and bass guitar, and soprano sax since 5th grade.</p>

<p>Athletics (I LOVE- no recruit though)</p>

<p>Varsity Tennis (9,10,11,12)</p>

<p>USTA (8,9,10,11,12)
Travel to sectional, and national tournaments</p>

<p>Taekwondo Black Belt</p>

<p>Extracurriculars</p>

<p>DECA (10,11,12)
State Qualifier in Financial Analysis division (10), hopefully nationals this year (11)</p>

<p>FBLA (9,10,11,12)
Secretary (10)
State Qualifier in Ecnomics (10)</p>

<p>Chess Club (9,10,11,12)</p>

<p>National Honor Society (10,11,12)</p>

<p>Founder and President of Rubik's Cube/Speed Stack Club</p>

<p>I WILL WRITE A FANTASTIC ESSAY</p>

<p>Sorry for the disorganization.</p>

<p>Schools</p>

<p>Stanford
Harvard
Princeton
Cornell
UCLA
USC
UC Berkeley
Brown
Cal Tech</p>

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<p>Sorry for no SAT's</p>

<p>Around 2100 though.</p>

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<p>i didn't see the test scores, or maybe i'm dumb, but i'd say you have solid chances, but it's tough to call b/c they're so random in the process. good luck though, you'll get at least half the list. </p>

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<p>Your experiences with Harvard are definitely a major selling point in my opinion.
All in all, I think you're on your way to a pretty solid application. Just try and take on some more leadership roles senior year and nail down some great SAT/ACT/SAT II scores, plus write some amazing essays as you said.
However, keep in mind that schools like Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, and Caltech can't ever be considered anything but reach schools for everyone. The admissions process is so subjective and unless you've found the cure to cancer and are the child of a major world figure you're taking part in a crapshoot. Although it's obvious, I think for these schools you'll really need to make sure you bring home the high standarized testing scores, as well as giving great essays and interviews. Like I said, try to get some more "leadership" aspects going on. I know you've been a club secretary and founder/president of a club (both of which are great) but try to get something more going on where you're really doing some impressive things as club president- like organizing fundraisers, events, etc. (maybe you have already and you just didn't list it)
Really though, you're going to have a great application. You should be set for getting into a good portion of the schools you listed. Good luck!</p>

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<p>DS attended SSP 2 years ago and they made very clear attendance has no impact on admission. You'll need to shoot closer to 2250, H's median for the class of 2012.</p>