My stats are 4.0/4.0 GPA unweighted (4.78/5 weighted), rank 8/392, skipped sophomore year of high school, 4 on AP Lang & Comp AP exam and a 5 in the US History AP exam. 1300/1600 SAT score (will be retesting in October).
Relevant current courses I am enrolled in are: AP Biology, AP US Government & Politics, AP Physics 1, AP Literature & Composition, and AP Macroeconomics.
Currently president of chess club, founded a political activism club at my school, member of NHS, Math Honors society member (Mu Alpha Theta) president of debate club, and a member of World Scholar’s club. I also volunteered as an Arabic and Quran teacher at my local masjid’s Sunday School and interned for the Harris County GOP chapter. My parents both came from Sudan as refugees on asylum (in case that affects anything).
Do I have a chance of getting into any Ivy league school with this resume?
You will need to get your test scores up significantly to be even in the ballpark. You are well below the 25th percentile for any Ivy. Go to the common data set of each school that you are considering to see what the ranges are.
One is as @BKSquared said. 1300 SAT is very low for an Ivy League or equivalent university. You are going to need to get this way up. You should also be aware that at an Ivy League university you will be competing against students who got well above 1400 with no preparation at all.
The other issue is that you are going to have a better chance at getting into a top university if you know why you are applying there. There are significant differences between the 8 Ivy League universities, and if you also consider equivalent schools such as MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Chicago and perhaps a couple more there are even more differences. If you fill out an application for say Dartmouth College, you should be able to answer “why Dartmouth”. When someone asks “can I get into an Ivy League school” it sounds as if they want to get into any of the 8, which implies that they haven’t yet done their homework.
Whether you can get into an Ivy League university or not, you should be able to get into a very good university and do well there.
Is there anything specific your clubs(debate, chess, political activism) have done? I would say that if you have done something, you would definitely have a great chance. Yes, the SAT score needs to go up.
As mentioned above, that SAT is going to be a killer. I would recommend either using Khan Academy or a bootcamp to try to get that score into the high 1400s low 1500 range to even be close to an Ivy. I would also try to get some awards or an internship of some sort! PM if you want some help with SAT preparation. I can give you book recommendations and tips if you want
Slightly off-topic, but here’s a point worth noting: The combination of Sudanese refugee background, volunteer Quran teacher, and intern for the Harris County GOP really stands out as something unexpected, something that defies current expectations in the US about how one’s ethno-cultural, religious, and political allegiances are “supposed” to line up. To put it bluntly, there aren’t many Sudanese-Texan Muslim Republicans about these days!
This unusual conjunction strikes me as very “hooky.”
Hence, if I were you, I would strongly consider weaving this narrative into my admissions essays. While I agree with other posters that you need to focus on trying to raise your SAT scores, I would add that less-than-ideal scores can sometimes be at least partly offset by strong essays which highlight those unique features of your experience and background that would equip you both to contribute to and to profit from campus life in distinctive ways.
