Please help me with anything that I may need to do or add to my transcript.
I am currently an incoming junior in high school.
GPA Un-Weighted: 3.92
GPA Un-Weighted (A+ = 4.3): 4.02
GPA Weighted (5.0 scale): 4.562
I have taken every single honor or AP course that was possible for me to be taking. Sophomore year my school only offered 1 AP class.
APs: AP European History - 4; I will be taking 4 AP classes next year and 4 more my senior year
SAT: 2250
ACT: N/A
Extracurricular: I played baseball my entire life and played on varsity sophomore year and we won the state championship. I plan on being recruited for baseball. I am a part of 2 clubs (FCA and business club). This summer I am interning at a Siemens law department. I invest in the stock market regularly. In my free-time I program apps to be made on the app store, but have not actually submitted any. I swam on varsity freshman year, but decided to stick to baseball only for the rest of high school.
I know this is too soon to tell, but I just want to know if I am on track for acceptance at these schools. Please be completely honest as I want to know my true chances. Thank you so much!
Great scores and GPA so far, but most Harvard applicants have those same stats. What defines you is your ECs and while many of yours look awesome, I think maybe finding something you like this year and develop it on the more communal level is what they also look for and what will potentially set you aside from the rest of the pack. Columbia obviously is a very difficult school to get into but not as hard as Harvard based on acceptance rates over the past couple years.
If you committ to a school for baseball, You will be able to get into any school provided that you first committ to the school for baseball before you apply.
I have been told that Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Stanford etc are a reach for EVERYONE! Just don’t put all your eggs in these baskets.
Ivies are a reach for everyone- the only way to give yourself a good shot is to simply work hard, as you have clearly been doing, and to develop your ECs to be unique and something you are truly passionate about. Maybe try looking into community service that aligns to your interests (maybe developing an app for a non-profit or interning with a business)
I think that the way to make sure you get accepted to some prestigious school is use your Ivies as your reach schools and use schools like University of Michigan, UCLA, WASHU, Carnegie Mellon, University of Notre Dame, and Emory which are SUPER prestigious and still VERY hard to get into, but they have a little bit higher acceptance rates and you are above the statistics for some of these!
Thank you all so much for the help! I realize that these schools are hard to get into and I will continue working, but its always great to have a back up plan. Thanks!