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<p>race: white
gender: male
home state: massachusetts
income bracket: high-middle
school: northeast all boys prep school; well regarded/good relationships with ivies
applying: ed</p>

<p>sat i: 800 critical reading, 780 writing, 740 math, total: 2320
(national merit scholar recognition on psat)</p>

<p>sat ii: 770 us history, 730 bio, taking spanish reading in the fall and will probably be 700-800 range</p>

<p>aps: 5 on bio, 5 on us history, 5 on spanish, 4 on english lit, 3 on chem, taking physics, spanish lit, and ab calc this year (ap scholar with distinction award after junior year)</p>

<p>freshman year: geometry (advanced class available but didnt take it): A, english: A, environmental science: A-, history: B+, intro physics: A-, spanish: A-, painting: B+; high honors</p>

<p>sophomore year: music: B+, english B+, spanish advanced: A-, algebra (advanced class offered but didnt take it): A-, bio AP: B+, mod euro (AP class available but didnt take it): A-; high honors</p>

<p>junior year: english: A-, other english class: A-, ap spanish: A-, ap us history: B+, ap chemistry: b, pre-calc (middle track of three tracks): B+, high honors</p>

<p>ill probably get a few a's in there during senior year before applying anywhere so thatll help
im probably within top 10-12% of my class grade wise but my school doesnt report rank</p>

<p>sports: varsity skiing 10, 11, 12 - went to new england championships; varsity baseball 11, 12 (nott a recruit)</p>

<p>clubs: head of microfinance club, head of spanish club, sports editor of school newspaper, peer tutor (won peer tutor award junior year), have played piano since second grade (only taken lessons tho)</p>

<p>work: interned with the massachusetts republican party summer before senior year, worked on a maintenance crew at my pool summer before senior year</p>

<p>community service: teach ccd at my local parish, for a number of years have organized a pretty big group of kids to raise money for and walk in the juvenile diabetes research foundation walk (my sister has diabetes), service trip to india/worked with Smile Train foundation</p>

<p>extra: studied spanish in spain summer before junior year and got perfect scores in both of my classes in the 6th highest level of 8 (the top two of which are for natives) (and have the transcript for it)</p>

<p>weve got like a good college counsellor with some nice pull, i think i can make my essay really good, annndd i think one of my recs will be really good and the other will be good but not like abnormalllly great</p>

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<p>the summer spanish classes i mentioned were at the University of Granada btw</p>

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<p>What percentage of the graduating class from your prep school gets into the Ivies/MIT/Stanford? (you have good chances by the way)</p>

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<p>class of 2009 had 16 out of 69 go ivy/mit but id say probably 6-7 of those were sports related</p>

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<p>I’d say you have good chances then, especially if you’re in the top 15% or so.</p>

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<p>You have about a 1 in 7 or 1 in 8 chance of getting in.</p>

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<p>If your high school is as good as you say it is, then the Ivies will automatically notice you, especially if you’ve got some of the top grades. If your counselors have pull, then that’s even better. You will, however, need to get the good teacher rec to become a really good rec. You have solid APs, not the best they’ll see, but definetly good enough. I’d say your extracurriculars are ivy league caliber, maybe not the top of the top, but still great. I’d say that they’d seriously consider you, and you’ve got a good shot at getting in!</p>