Location: New York
School: Private
Ethnicity: African-American
Gender: Female
Major: Creative Writing & French
GPA: 100.4
Scores:
SAT I - 2100 (750 W, 700 CR, 650 M)
SAT US History - 780
SAT French - 710
SAT World - 710
8 AP Classes taken by graduation
5 AP Classes Senior Year
So far AP Scores: 5, 5, 4 (English, US history, World History)
ECs:
-Editor-in-chief of school newspaper
-Contributor for my town’s newspaper (I write articles about college, SATs, and education)
-Multi Published writer in literary magazines (an essay about track and field, an essay about cosmetics & chemicals)
-College Essay was published in a magazine
-Have my own travel blog (features photos and entries on my trips abroad)
-Have my own healthy eating blog
-Quiz Bowl Team Captain
@pinkwhitered you didn’t really answer @GA2012MOM question. Are you applying to the Ivies for the prestiege? Because it seems like that. Very few people who actually get into the Ivies would be happy at every single other Ivy. You should do some specific research on each and determine 1 or even 2 of them that really appeal to you and just apply to those. In regards to your chances to all the Ivies, is your GPA weighted or unweighted? What is your UW GPA on a 4.0 scale? Your SAT is low and your ECs are pretty average, but you are a URM so that might help except for the fact that there will likely be a ton of other qualified URMs applying. Good luck
What @GA2010MOM is questioning is the wisdom of applying to “all ivy league schools.” The ivies are very different, and if you apply somewhere only because it’s an ivy league school you’re likely making a huge mistake.
In regard to what @jfbr2314 said, your SAT is not low at all. 2100 is a very good score, but is slightly below the norm for Ivy League schools (some of the hardest colleges to get into in all of America.) However, I would say your EC’s at average at best. However, the fact that your EC’s relate to your major helps. If you tried to get your SAT up just a little (above 2200), you should be a competitive candidate for the Ivies. Your GPA is excellent btw. I know you just want to know your chances and not get lectured about which schools to apply to, so here you go:
Harvard- Reach/high reach (same for everyone)
Princeton- Reach
Yale- high reach/reach
Columbia- reach
Brown- low reach
Penn- low reach
Dartmouth- high match/low reach
Cornell- match/high match
Hope that helped a bit! Apply to the schools you want to apply to. If you want to apply to all 8 Ivies, that’s your choice. However, I would recommend narrowing down which schools you want to apply to so you don’t waste your time/money on an application you don’t care about. Good luck!