Chance me please!! Do I have a shot at the Ivies?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Chances at the Ivies...(mainly Cornell, Brown, Princeton, Columbia, or UPENN) I'm still in junior year.. so i'm planning on retaking my SAT's</p>

<p>I go to a public High School (nothing too special)</p>

<p>Weighted average for junior year: 105.7
weighted average for freshman and sophmore year: 99.2</p>

<p>I have taken 5 AP classes so far: </p>

<p>World History (10th grade): 5
AP Chem, AP Physics, AP U.S, and A.P. Composition (i'm taking right now)</p>

<p>Every other one of my classes has been honors</p>

<p>SAT: 2150
Math: 730
Reading: 740
Writing: 680</p>

<p>SAT II's </p>

<p>Biology: 710
Chemistry: 780
U.S.: 780</p>

<p>I'm planning on taking AP BIO, AP gov, AP econ, and AP Lit next year.. along with AP portfolio(art class)</p>

<p>My ECS:
Art Honor Society (10- )
National Honor Society (11-)
Spanish Honor Society (9-)
Math Honor Society (10-)
Spanish club (9-)
Varsity Tennis(9-)
Science Olympiad (9-) My school does pretty well.. and I have a couple of medals</p>

<p>Volunteering: 100+ hours ( hospital and private clinic)
Ayn Rand Essay Contest Semifinalist
Placed 2nd in a local science fair (does that count for anything?)
Physics Olympiads
Chemistry Olympiads
National History Day Competition
Have walked multiple times for breast cancer, multiple sclerosis (9-)
participated in program that sends portraits to orphans in South America (9-)</p>

<p>Got into the Institute for Creative Problem Solving for Gifted and Talented Students ( I think it pretty prestigious.. on long island at least)</p>

<p>Semifinalist in American Legion Oratorical Competition (county level)</p>

<p>I'm treasurer for the Honor Society.. but i'm planning on running for more positions...
I'm also planning on doing some intense Summer Research the coming summer.. if that helps at all.
I've also done a whole other bunch of competitions but i'm not sure if it matters since i didn't win anything..does participation count?</p>

<p>and one final question... if your grades are kinda low in one subject, but everything else is pretty good, does it really matter that much?</p>

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<p>ooh.. forgot to mention that i've been taking traditional indian dance for about 10 years... and we do alot of community performances.( so i think that counts as community service too)</p>

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<p>In at Cornell and possibly at Brown, no real chance at the others.</p>

<p>P.S. This presumes that you are top 3% rank-wise in your class.</p>

<p>People, the Ivies go by rank--so please post rank when asking for chances--posting weighted scores or GPAs helps very little when asking about chances at the Ivies.</p>

<p>(This is all in the thread at the top of this section entitled--how to improve the chances of chances threads)</p>

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<p>since i'm still a junior, my school doesn't give out rankings...but I'm assuming that I'll be at least in the top ten out of around 600-700 (not exactly sure...) and is there anything i can improve on in order to increase my chances at UPENN, Princeton or columbia?</p>

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<p>your ecs are weak compared to other ivy applicants + maybe retake the sats... it looks like youre definitely capable of getting 2200+ ...maybe that will make up for suspect ecs</p>