<p>Currently your 450ish SAT Subject Test scores in US history, Math 1, and Spanish, is your achilles heel. Input your SAT Subject tests of 450 into the AI with a projected 650 on each section of the SAT, select the top 10% decile and your AI is 177.</p>
<p>If a recruited athlete cannot be admitted with a score below 176, they also cannot accept a URM with below 176. Just running the numbers – and holistic colleges do more than that – you’re currently projected to be on the very outside edge of admissibility at an Ivy League school.</p>
<p>Hey, you’ve got a pretty good range of colleges for international/political science, but if you’re looking for a Christian college to add too I’d consider Grace College in Winona Lake, IN. I’ve never been interested because they don’t offer Arabic, but a good friend of mine is interested in international studies and mentioned that Grace has a really, really cool IS program with a lot of study abroad opportunities. If you’re interested you could look into it. You’d easily be a shoo-in–a safety for a safety, if you got a good pastor rec. </p>
<p>tesfayeB, you do realize that no one here can give you any real idea of your chances, don’t you? Looking at the common data set for each school is more useful than asking other high school kids what they think (really…why??) but you really need a wide range of options and should probably stop obsessing about your prospects until you are farther along in the process (i.e., have actual test scores).</p>
<p>Thanks for the info on the academic index. I don’t have a child applying to the Ivy’s but I plugged in some numbers. just to see. Pretty sobering. Still, applicants with identical numbers could be completely different from each other, so I guess, if one is above the minimum, it doesn’t hurt to try as long as there are other more reliable plans in place. </p>
<p>The AI really refers to athletes and the composite numbers for a team. But I agree one should look for what a college may show as the stats for admits and matriculants. </p>
<p>One should especially remember: lightning rarely strikes. Don’t assume you or your kid, when the numbers don’t match up, is somehow going to be magically identified and admitted. The Ivies have thousands of high performing applicants, with all the right “rest of the story.” They can and do cherry-pick. Plus you have the wildcards (they need a bassoonist for the orchestra, they’ve got too many applicants for that major, gender balance, etc, etc- and the deadly “geographical diversity.”)</p>
<p>Remember H says they end up with a finalist pool 3x the number of seats available. I believe it.</p>
<p>The title of your thread is about the Ivy’s and that is very popular, but nobody knows exactly how to get admitted to an Ivy, and if there was a way, then it wouldn’t work because every applicant would do it. </p>
<p>Go for it but make sure you also have a set of safety schools. Affirmative Action is on your side! Make sure you come across passionate in your extracurriculars, not just diverse. Good luck!</p>
<p>OP, what test prep will you be doing over the summer? They only way you can have a real chance is if you increase your test scores by at least 150 points </p>
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