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<p>Hi, I am a student from Czech republic and I would like to know what are my chances to get into an ivy league school. </p>

<p>I am applying next year to: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Standford, Cornell, Darmouth, Brown... I would like to do polical sciences in the undergrad. I graduate next year</p>

<p>My gpa is 3.9 (i know thats bad, but Im still in the top 5% and grading in the czech republic is lot tougher). My school is one of the most selective highschools in oir country
ACT- i should get over 32 and sat subject test both close to 800 (but it is lower because english is not my first languege- do they consider that right?)
we do not have any AP classes. so I couldnt take any</p>

<p>I am hoping that my extracurriculars are gonna get me in- what do you think?
I do study a lot of languages- besides speaking czech I speak english, german, spanish, I study franch, russian and I took classes of latin and chinese
I founded and lead schools club for political simulations, with which we participated at Yale model government europe, Prague student summit and National selection conference, with which we were chosen to represent czech republic at the international european yout parliament
I founded and lead one of the biggest debating club in the czech republic
i debate in the team that the czech representation is chosen from
I play in a theatre
Im in Czech-german youth forum- i am working on a projekt to make Germany and Czech republic closeer to each other.
I spent a year in the US
I perfom in the theatre
I am the president od school parliament
I am the editor in chief in the schools newspaper</p>

<p>What do you think? If I apply to all of these schools, do I have a chance that I will be accepted at least at one of them?</p>

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<p>Your chances for getting accepted into at least one of the schools is decent. The only thing that is holding you back is that you are simply applying to these schools because they are Ivies and for no other reason. Colleges see that you applied to all the schools and they don’t want someone who thinks their school is interchangeable with 8 others. You can fix that problem by writing a personal essay for each of these schools showing HOW THE SCHOOL IS RIGHT FOR YOU. The ivies are not interchangeable, some schools are right for you and some are not. Don’t jut apply to all of them, see which environment would fit you best. </p>

<p>If you actually end up getting a 32 on the ACT and around 800 on your SAT 2s and you should ok. </p>

<p>P.S. you forgot the University of Pennsylvania in your list of Ivies.</p>

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<p>I call ■■■■■. laureen posted on the Columbia board in May with a less impressive resume and was apparently disappointed that he/she didn’t receive any responses.</p>