<p>Hi! I would like to know how well I stand against other applicants to:
Yale
Stanford
MIT
Cornell
Harvard</p>
<p>I am an Indian, first-generation female, junior, middle class, go to a public school in Connecticut with a large class that is predominantly black, the district has a 88% graduation rate</p>
<p>Past students I know of from my school who have gotten into Ivies: last year a girl to brown for the art program and a girl into cornell engineering (she had about the same grades as me), this year a hispanic girl got into harvard and yale (was one of the top-ranking students, but not valedictorian, and had a low SAT score, but the people ranked above her in the class did not get into any ivies) </p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 unweighted, valedictorian, all hard honors courses, AP english, history, and biology, planning to take AP Chem, Physics, English Literature, Calculus, and French senior year
SAT: first sitting, taking it again in Oct: 790 math, 770 writing, 710 cr
SAT II's: 800 chemistry, 750 bio, 800 math II, 790 physics
CT Governor's Scholar (1 of 30) </p>
<p>Extra-curriculars (a bit weak, I think):
Bharatnatym dance for 8-9 years
cross country, 1 year (i was on varsity, but i don't know if you'd really call it varsity, because i was a freshmen and there were 5 girls, total)
varsity tennis (#1 singles for my team, but never got to states ) for 4 years
founder and president of Model UN club (this is very important to me because i put a lot of effort into it, and it is probably more significant because our school really does not do much in the way of human rights, international affairs, etc., as in this club is going to disintegrate when i leave and im really sad because i can't do anything about it), and won an honorable mention at the international conference in New York
volunteered at day-care center for underpriveleged children for 1 year
volunteered at library 30 hours each summer for three summers (but this was before high school, does this count?)
volunteered at hospital for 1 school year, and 1 summer
worked as technology assistant at library for 1 year
varsity math team, 4 years, (captain senior year)
varsity debate, 2 years won 2 speaker awards in novice debate (2 years)
Mayor's Youth Leadership Council, 2 years
Mock Trial participant (3 years) </p>
<p>I am trying to organize a human rights event at my school, but there is a good chance it will fall through because I can't seem to get the faculty on board </p>
<p>I anticipate all 5's on the three AP tests that I am taking</p>
<p>I have written a rough draft of a college essay (it was a hw assignment), and my teacher liked it, it is about the rollercoaster ride, cyclops, i was afraid to go on it at first, and i tied in the whole metaphor of "defeating the cyclops" (like odysseus), and how this applies to my life and activities (i will always go out and try something even if i am afraid of it, or if i know it won't come out very good)- what do you think of this? I was wondering if i should write an essay about the Model UN club, because I faced quite a bit of difficulty starting it (lack of support, my personal lack of experience because I had never been to a conference, etc.), or about dance because it has been an important part of my life, but would this be too generic? </p>
<p>I am absolutely the type of person who is enthusiastic about everything I do, I hate procrastination, I hate sitting at home doing nothing, and I really really want to go to Yale because I visited, and all the people there seem like the type of people I would get along really well with, and I want this to come out in my application </p>
<p>I am interested in both engineering (VERY math oriented), and medicine, leaning a bit more towards medicine </p>
<p>Thank you sooo much for your help, I have given all the info. I could think of for the moment, any input would be much appreciated</p>