<p>Should i forget about ivies if i didn't take any honors classes freshman year and only too 2 honors sophomore year??</p>
<p>This year i have 2 AP's, 4 honors, and orchestra.
Next year i'll have 5 AP's, 1 honors, and orchestra.
And i'm hispanic. which i know means something</p>
<p>So there's an upward trend.
I know this isn't enough for someone to give me chances, i just simply want to know if not having taken honors classes my first two years of high school will automatically get me a rejection letter.
Should i just forget about ivies then, or should i try hard to raise my chances, even if it's just a little.</p>
<p>PS. i feel pretty confident with EC's and SAT's (after much prepping).</p>
<p>Nothing is automatic. Course selection for Fr and Sop years are less important than Jr & Sr year. It also depends on your HS, how many honors courses were offered those two years?</p>
<p>Some ivies reject half of perfect SAT scores applicants. I’m no college admissions officer, but you’ll definitely need at least 1400/1600 to make the implicit requirement, 1500 so they don’t look down upon you, and 1550+ to give you some edge over the others. They’ll definitely take someone with a 1400 who is a great leader in business, but that just gives you something to think about.</p>
<p>Ignore the previous post. “Implicit requirement”… The average score at Cornell is a 1379 (taken from common app website). ~Half the freshmen at Cornell wouldn’t meet the requirement… for Cornell. Haha. Princeton is 1461. Nobody is looking down on <1500’s. </p>
<p>The point is the better you do, the better your chances are. So just aim high, but there’s not requirement for you to achieve.</p>
<p>^1400 is good, but 1500 is where you go to the next level. Whenever I’m looking at middle 50% on collegeboard.com, it’s like 690-770 range(not for cornell, but this general range for many ivies), so 1500 is definitely where you want to be to be good with ivies.</p>
<p>unless you have a hook you need a 1400+ to have any change, and a 1450+ to have a reasonable chance. That what it is and think of it as a 2200+ out of the other scale. Cornell may have a 1379 or w/e but thats the weakest of the Ivies and that accounts for those crappy niche schools, athletes, urms and legacies.</p>