Chance of getting into any ivy?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello, I'm a 10th grader right now in high school and I did horribly freshman year. I failed a semester of science and a whole year of math and had d's and c's for other classes, I was co president of my class and that was it, no other extra activates. After that I knew i needed to start changing so I went to summer school got my credits back for science and geometry and promised myself I would try harder next year so this year I have 3 As 2 bs 1 C and 1F the f will probably change to a D really soon. I have a 2.6 gpa and I tried running for class president this year but didn't win. SO next year I'm going to be taking Ap American Lit and Comp Ap American History, taking an Anthropology class at a local uni, Ap Psych , pre cal, chemistry, (I suck so much in science and math so i'm not going to hurt myself by taking high classes) honors Latin III, journalism II (editor and chief next year) and fashion design II. </p>

<p>Starting these Extra Curricular Activates Next year (Junior year):
-Founder of the tutoring club and chess club,
-co pres for the Muslim organization,
-running for class president again,
-journalism club,
-youth court,
-speech and debate,
-going to volunteer at my mosque, going to be a mentor for the upcoming freshman and going to volunteer at a hospice for grieving children and teens.</p>

<p>I want to become a surgeon or Emergency medicine doctor in the future and go to Med School, so i shadowed and ER doctor this year and going to shadow a surgeon next year. So guys do I have any chance to become valedictorian? or at least in the top 5? and do I have any chance getting into any of the ivies like Harvard/Yale. My college essay will be on how I started to love learning again, my recommendations will either be from the surgeon I will shadow and one Ap teacher. I'm preparing myself now for the SATs that I will be taking next year. Sorry about this being really long but thank you if you help me, it will mean a lot.</p>

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<p>Who knows??? Come back when you are a junior. In the meantime, it shouldn’t take a CC poster to tell you that you need TOP grades, scores, essays, recs, and ecs to get into a top school. You need to be one of your school’s top students. If you become one of your school’s top students, there is no reason why you should not apply to the schools of your dreams. But with less than 8% acceptance rates at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton, not to mention exceptionally low acceptance rates for Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, and, UPenn, even being a top student is no guarantee of acceptance. Therefore, hope but do not expect to be accepted by an Ivy (no matter your qualifications), and thus prepare a list of schools that include safeties and matches. If you are lucky enough to get into your dream school, great. But there are scores of wonderful colleges in this country. Why are you so hung up on so few? There are more than 8 dream schools in this country, I assure you!!! You don’t have to go to an Ivy to go to med school, or to be a successful physician. Where did you get that idea?</p>

<p>You are also asking “chance” questions that are beyond silly. How should we know if you’ll become valedictorian of your school? Or be in the top five? Really, why would you expect anyone here to be able to predict YOUR future?</p>

<p>Let me also add. A 2.6 gpa won’t get you into ANY top college, nor will a transcript with Ds and Fs. Schools love to see an upward trend, but without a SIGNIFICANT boost of that gpa, you will not only NOT be valedictorian but you will not be in the running for any top thirty college or university. So, don’t waste your time on CC. Spend your time getting that gpa up SIGNIFICANTLY. But even if you ultimately do not attend a top school, you CAN still go to med school and become a successful physician if you are a strong student at whatever college you attend, and do particularly well on your MCATs. Your future as a physician is NOT dependent upon being an undergrad at an absolutely TOP college.</p>

<p>I am also curious. If you “suck” so (your word, not mine) at science, what makes you think being a physician is the most appropriate career path for you? Maybe you should think this through. At the very least, really work on improving in that field. You cannot “suck” at science and expect to do well in med school, let alone be admitted to med school.</p>

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<p>With those grades? You’ll have to do great junior year. But I found something interesting. I keep finding people who get into these ivies by starting an organization of their own. Its really not that hard. A charity is ideal. Set up something with your school for people to get community service hours and ta da. Free employees. All it takes is a good idea. I think a successful charity and a GREAT junior/first half of senior year will give you the slimmest of shots. Make sure do do fantastic on SATs and ACTs.</p>

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<p>To originalguy609. Setting up a charity does NOT in and of itself get one into an Ivy. Admissions committees see through that ploy, if admissions ploy it is. The students you reference clearly had more going for them than just setting up charities to impress admissions officers. This poster would be better served working on her gpa and following her actual passions.</p>

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<p>To clarify. Do anything you like. A charity was just an example. Think outside the box and start something.</p>

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<p>Originalguy609. NOW you’re talkin’! The best strategy is absolutely, as you suggest, thinking outside the box. Wish that MORE people realized this!!!</p>

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<p>swingtime and orginalguy609 thank you guys so much I will think outside the box and I really like your idea orignalguy609 I’ve always been thinking about starting a charity I really do love helping people and helping people especially in the hospital maybe a charity for kids in the hospital I don’t know i’ll give it alot of thought in the summer and start it up hopefully. I know guys gpa gpa gpa I will work extremely hard to end the year with a 3.0 and i’ll keep on going higher hopefully it’s just so hard living in a working class family with a dad whos never home mom whos never home and 4 little siblings I need to take care of.</p>

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<p>Freshman grades are often forgiven for many schools, however, sophomore grades will definitely be counted. If it is a little bit low in sophomore year but a good upward trend afterward, it is not too much a problem. But if it is too low that drag down your overall GPA a lot, it will really hurt your chance.</p>