Any advice on how to get into the Ivy league?
(3.75+ GPA ) + (1450+ SAT) + top 100 recruit in Basketball. I guarantee admission to at least 1 Ivy.
I assumed that since you were asking about a sports league that you are an athlete.
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What grade are you in? Do you have ivy alumni parents who are big $$ donors or work for an ivy?
Do you play a sport at a high level? Be a recruited athlete with top grades& scores.
See this analysis of what types of students are admitted by Harvard.
It may help if you expand your understanding of what constitutes an “Ivy.”
Curing cancer or creating an HIV vaccine will probably do.
Take the Red Line to Cambridge Mass and walk down Massachusetts Avenue. You will see a gate on your left that says VERITAS. Go through that gate.
So now cheap attempt at humor aside your first step should be an attempt to understand the unique histories and characteristics of each of the schools in the Ivy League. In other words the differences amongst the schools is more important in many ways then what they have in common.
Aside from grades, stats, ECs etc you need to be able to articulate how you will contribute to these unique institutions and communities through your essays.
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Make sure you can afford these schools.
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@michaelrong6022 there is an NPR podcast where students, I believe from Yale, were interviewed and each was asked if they knew why they were accepted. The vast majority had NO IDEA why their applications rose to the top.
There is no magic recipe for getting into the Ivies…or Stanford, or MIT or the like.
Even with a perfect SAT score and perfect GPA, you would not be guaranteed admission.
So…if you think you want to go to these schools, apply and see.
But I will ask….why the Ivy League!
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This.
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Not to pile on here, because the answers are all exactly right, but why not the Centennial League or the American Rivers Conference? The Ivy League is nothing more than a group of schools that have athletic contests among themselves, and occasionally against others. That is their unifying characteristic. Otherwise, they are 8 very, very different places.
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Get to know these schools individually. If you just want “Ivy league” you may be applying for the wrong reasons. Also get to know some other colleges, like the Colleges that Change Lives (website) for instance. Let us know why you want an Ivy League college and maybe people here can be more helpful.
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Be in the top 5% of your school, test well, have a good number of AP 5 scores, apply to 3.
Then you have a <10% probability to be accepted to one, just like all other high achieving students with identical stats, who will also apply.
Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make that your aim, just be realistic that at the end it’s still >90% good fortune to get in.
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Excellent grades, scores and academic rigor (AP classes) may help you meet a benchmark but after that it is about other things.