Any chances at all for and Ivy League/very-very top?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I really want to know if I should even bother applying to the VERY top schools in the country- like the Ivy League and such. So could anybody please chance me? Thanks to everyone right away!</p>

<p>Profile:
female
Caucasian
Immigrated to US 6 years ago- Eng. was not my first language
GPA: My school has a pretty weird system where about 6.5 is the highest. Right now I have 6.2 or so. Also, I am number 141 out of 570, even though I have straight A's. (a very competitive school).
Throughout all of the high school years my only semester B was 88 in chem- otherwise I'm a straight A student.
By the time I graduate I will have taken 4 AP classes:
World History-4, US History- 5, and European History and Studio Art which I'm taking this year (let's assume I get both 5's ^__^)
SAT: 1720 (hell yeah- I'm taking that again!)
ACT: 24
SAT II: US Hist-680, Math 1-600 (please don't laugh!))</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
National Honor Society
National French Honor Society
J'AIDES (a school-spirit group)
Art Club- donated artwork
"Run for the Arts"- also donated artwork
Art of Henna Club- kind of meaningless, but still worth mentioning in my opinion
Occasional medal winner of local and regional art contest (but never the overall winner or anything)
I have about 8 academic awards and certificates for my classes in high school, as well.
I could also kinda-sorta say that I tutored children in Ukraine when I came to visit (Ukraine's my homeland. I mean, it's not like someone's gonna check, right?... O_o
And that's pretty much it...</p>

<p>I realize that I am absolutely no match for some of the people in here. But by "top schools" I meant ones like Rice or Baylor, because I actually want to stay in Texas for various reasons (tuition costs being one of them).
My realistic choices would probably be University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M...</p>

<p>So could anyone please tell me if I'm at least good enough for the schools I have listed? Or maybe something better, like Ivy League? Should I even apply to schools like Stanford?</p>

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<p>yer sat score is too low…yu hav hav at least somewhere around 2200:)</p>

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<p>UT needs you to be in top 9%. So A&M sounds more realistic if you are in a public school in Texas.</p>

<p>The scores and top 15% are not Ivy league like.</p>

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<p>well, my biggest passions are probably history and art, so I was thinking something along the lines of graphic design, or a ph d in history</p>

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<p>So your GPA translates to approx 3.81… I think you can get into Baylor and Texas A&M. You definitley need to retake your SAT I and II to be a serious canidate. Your EC looks good though…</p>

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<p>thank you! EC was actually one of the things that worried me the most…
I signed up for SAT reasoning test this October, but I don’t think I can do any better on subject tests. And I don’t think they are required anyways.</p>

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<p>You could probably get into Baylor (well I’m fairly sure you have a good shot) and A&M. I don’t think you would get into Ivys/really top schools, maybe look at TCU, SMU as well?</p>

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<p>Uh, maybe you just consider lower ranked schools than the Ivys/top schools. No harm in applying though</p>

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<p>I’m afraid those standardized test scores, combined with a class rank that’s barely top quartile, really will render you uncompetitive for Ivies and a lot of other top colleges. Sorry.</p>

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<p>yeah… it’s funny, but many people in our school district are switching out of my high school just so that they can be at the top of the class in a different one. My high school is definitely one of the best in the state, but when it comes down to class rank, it’s not that awesome anymore.</p>

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<p>Obviously, your ACT and SATs are way too low.</p>

<p>However, also obviously, you have to nail down how colleges treat kids whose native language is not English.</p>

<p>If you are going to major in math or science, I think they might forgive poor scores in CR and writing.</p>

<p>However, if your math scores are also not super great, then I would say you are indeed over-reaching if you try to get into a tip top school.</p>

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<p>Work on SAT I and II scores… A LOT.</p>