<p>First, I must say that I am in fact a junior and am just wondering if it is even worth it for me to apply to some of the Ivies or if my efforts will just be futile.</p>
<p>I attend one of the best public high schools in Connecticut (sent more than 5 to Ivies last year), where the first year that one can take APs is junior year. So although I am currently taking only AP US History and AP Chem, that is the maximum amount that is possible as a junior at my school. I have taken all Honors when possible in freshman and sophomore years, however.</p>
<p>SAT: CR 730, M 690, W 800 (am taking again to up my math score)
SAT II: Have not yet taken
AP: currently enrolled in APUSH and AP Chem but haven't taken AP tests</p>
<p>GPA: 3.7 ... the only reason for this is that I got a C+ one class freshman year that I probably shouldn't have taken.
QPA: 4.3+ (that's weighted GPA)
Rank: top 10% (our school doesn't give exact numbers)</p>
<p>School activites:
- Soccer all 4 years (but only varsity junior year and definitely next year)
- Varsity tennis since grade 10
- Interact Club
- Tutor 2 middle schoolers each once a week, 2 hours at a time
- Founded my town's Outdoors Club that has now over 100 members
- Peer Help Program
- Safe Rides core member (basically gives rides to kids too intoxicated to drive)
- Write for school's literary magazine</p>
<p>Summer programs:
- NYLF (probably just shows I have money to spend)
- Outward Bound wilderness leadership program (went to Oregon for 2 weeks of hiking and kayaking and leadership skill-building)
- Most likely doing something at Brown University this summer
- I also travel very frequently during the summer for 2 weeks at a time: have been to Spain, France, Italy, England, Scotland, Wales, Mexico, Belize, Canada (idk if this looks good to colleges - maybe that I've experienced other cultures?)</p>
<p>Sooo... I'm just worried that my ECs are a little thin (though I'll increase them a bit this year) and that my GPA is a bit too low for Ivy schools (even though my high school is top 500 in the country). But I think I've showed that I have a great love for the wilderness and the outdoors and that I am very focused on things involving literature/history (see: SAT scores + the fact that the only non-A grades I've gotten have been in science). But please, if you will, chance me for the following:</p>
<p>Brown
Dartmouth
Middlebury
Cornell
Colby
Bowdoin
Yale (only because my dad attended + is a member of faculty)
Harvard (only because my mom attended)
Davidson
Pomona
Claremont McKenna</p>