<p>SAT(800CR/680W/770M)
SAT II- 780 Bio E, 760 Physics, 680 Math 1
I'm self-studying 3-4 AP's my senior year, (AP Lit, Bio, Chem and Calc BC)
My school doesn't use ranks, but if I had to guess I would say 3/4th out of 140, school doesn't use GPA, but about 3.8 would be accurate.
References: pretty good, approaching stellar.
As for EC's, I'm president of Student Council, Founder and Editor for the school newspaper, did quiz bowl all four years of high school and captained it 3 out of those 4, I did soccer for two summers, worked in my school's chem lab and volunteered at a summer reading program for a summer (66 hours).Three years of symphonic band as 2nd chair trombone, 1 year as 1st chair euphonium, 3 years of 2nd trombone in jazz, lead trombone this year.
Ethnicity: Nigerian-American ( immigrant)
Hook: I did every two years of grade school on average in a different country, I lived in a small town during high school, so I didn't have very many opportunities for research and other EC's(I'm taking all the EC's offered and only three people at my school take AP's, the other two are only taking AP lit.) I skipped three years of elem and am now an HS Senior at 14 (I couldn't participate in very many varsity sports because of this).</p>
<p>I'm an american citizen but live in Canada if that influences anything</p>
<p>Given your background (URM-immigrant) and unusual circumstances, I’d say you have a better chance than most. If I were you I’d go for HYP too. I wouldn’t send that math I score though.</p>
@dumbkid Penn is not a lesser Ivy. it is a second tier ivy along with columbia and below hyp. Brown, dartmouth and cornell are the so called lesser ivies. Please dont put Penn and cornell in the same basket…it is like putting penn and harvard in the same basket. i.e ridiculous…
@collegeguy97 of course all the ivies are amazing and getting into any one of them is an amazing achievement that one should be really proud of…if you get into any one of the ivies and work hard and do well there u are pretty much set. However the truth is not all ivies are equal…there is a hierarchy and distinction in top mid and bottom tiers. top tier being Harvard, princeton ,yale mid tier is penn and columbia and bottom tier is Dartmouth brown and cornell ( in this particular order) For better or worse this is the public perception and it is based on many factors such as school resources rankings prestige etc. but the distinction is there. Proof of this are the parchment rankings which rank all the schools based on cross admit preferences. Hierarchy within the Ivy League is very much a thing whether people like it or not.
Really ought not to use the term lesser ivy at all it is really crass.They are just all different colleges with different attributes. But if you are going to buy into that phrase, then sorry to say you will have to include Penn, And that tier is buying into just so much bs. If you want to rank college by student preference then say so, but parchment isn’t a study. There have been studies.
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