<p>Here Are My Stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 4.5 Weighted/ 3.75 Unweighted
SAT I: 2250
SAT II: US History (720), Physics (740), French (750), Math (780)
ACT: 33
Rank: Top 10 Percent</p>
<p>AP Exams:</p>
<p>Freshman Year =
AP Biology (1) --Retaking, Freshman Year was overwhelming</p>
<p>Sophomore Year =
AP Human Geography (4)
AP French (4)
AP World History (5)</p>
<p>Junior Year =
AP US History (5)
AP Physics (4)
AP English Language (5)
AP Statistics (4)
AP Psychology (5)</p>
<p>Senior Year =
AP Calculus (4)
AP English Composition (5)
AP Economics (4)
AP Environmental Science (5)</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities:</p>
<p>Wrote a fictional novel (in the process of publishing it)
On the School Newspaper Staff (Editor)
Won 2 Creative Writing Contest
Took Summer Writing Classes at UF and Yale
Secretary of French Club (Junior Year)
Link Crew Leader-- Organization that helps freshman transition smoothly to HS.
English Honor Society
VP of Writing Club (Senior Year)
National Merit Finalist--PSAT
National Achievement Scholar (award for African Americans)--PSAT
*I'm an African American Female by the way--not sure it matters</p>
<p>Volunteering:
200+ Hours at Florida Hospital
150+ Hours at Local Library</p>
<p>I have always dreamed of going to Harvard but I know that chances are against me. I was hoping I could get feedback on College Confidential. I'm not sure what I even want to major in--maybe Jounalism, Pre-Med, etc.</p>
<p>PS: What Ivy League University has the most lively Student Atmosphere. I want to go to a university in a somewhat big city that has a good university atmosphere. And also should I Apply to All Ivy League Universities.</p>
<p>Is there anything I am missing. Should there be something that I should be focusing more on.</p>
<p>Thanks So Much</p>
<p>The best forum for this is the “What Are My Chances” forum.</p>
<p>Wrote a fictional novel (in the process of publishing it)</p>
<p>^I don’t think that there is such a thing as a nonfiction novel.</p>
<p>Your chances look decent, but it’s still a reach of course. I would be inclined to say that your chances were pretty darn good if your writing was more standard. (Using question marks to end questions, not capitalizing things like Apply, etc. Was it an issue of typing on a phone or something? Your SAT score would seem to imply that. If that’s not how you normally write, you definitely have way better chances than average…maybe a 30% chance of admittance, give or take? If that is how you normally write, then I am just confused. No offense meant–you’re clearly very accomplished already.)</p>
<p>Harvard – Cambridge/Boston
Yale – New Haven
Princeton – suburban Jersey
Penn – Philadelphia
Columbia – NYC
Dartmouth – in the middle of nowhere, closer to Canada than anything
Brown – small city
Cornell – in the middle of nowhere, upstate New York</p>
<p>Given these locations, I’d advise you not to apply to Dartmouth or Cornell because they are definitely not urban at all. Princeton you might or might not be okay with, and I don’t know anything much about New Haven.</p>
<p>Other colleges I would advise for you off the top of my head:
Your state flagship (financial safety)
Boston College (safety)
U Chicago (random junk, maybe low reach/high match)
Northwestern (low reach/high match)
Vanderbilt (match)
Emory (match)
NYU (safety because they really like high test-scorers but $$$$$$$$)
Barnard (low match/match)
Georgetown (low match/match)</p>
<p>Haha. Yes I kind of typing on my Iphone right now. Thanks for your input Lirazel.</p>
<p>Wait, did you graduate already? I’m confused, since you already know your senior year AP scores, and that you’re a National Merit Finalist.</p>
<p>Are you taking a gap year or something???</p>
<p>Also, just out of curiosity, how much of this is predictions? Are those SAT scores real? I would say you have a pretty good shot at the ivies, and you probably get into one, but Harvard is another story, but I would say you have a decent shot.</p>
<p>Why are you wasting our time with false information?</p>
<p>Because he has too much time.</p>
<p>“Yes I kind of typing on my Iphone right now.”</p>
<p>I would work on the writing.</p>
<p>I don’t think you’ll get in.</p>
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<p>How do you already know about this? National Achievement didn’t even announce anything yet. National Merit is only in the Commended status.</p>
<p>This thread is all hypothetical</p>