<p>Hi Everyone! I am a 12th grade student currently attending public high school in Canada but spent my first two years of high school in the USA. </p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.99 UW
Rank: Top 1% out of like 300
SAT I (old): 780V, 790M
SAT II:
Biology 710, Math 1C 730, Taking Lit in November</p>
<p>Grade 11: Took 3 AP's Calc AB (5), Biology (5), US History (4)
Grade 12: Chem AP, English, French</p>
<p>Awards/Honors:
Canadian National Biology Scholar
AP Scholar (not very exciting I know)
Business Awards</p>
<p>Internships:
Interned at MIT in the summer with a grad student
Interned in some Pharmaceutical Companies (not tooo major)</p>
<p>Clubs:
Played tennis all four years of high school, Captain this year
Exec Board of Student Council (grade 12)
Debate (grade 10)
Business Club (11,12)</p>
<p>I know there's tons more I should write but this is the major stuff. Plus its hard to keep activities when you move. Canada is very different then the US when it comes to clubs and stuff. </p>
<p>Thanks for your help! and good luck to everyone</p>
<p>Everything depends with the schools you're talking about, but with a solid essay, I'd say you're assuredly in the range of those schools...admissions are freakish, but you're definetly far in the running.</p>
<p>How good is the tennis? That may be by far the most important thing on your resume. </p>
<p>Everything else looks like pretty much "everyone else" - your odds are likely between 1 in 10 and 1 in 20. Doesn't have anything to do with you really, just the number of foreign applicants.</p>
<p>So where do you really want to go to school?</p>
<p>Well i'd say im not good enough to play tennis at the intercollegiate level or anything...Canada is pretty lowkey in sports so Im not really great but I get to be captain since all the other players (not many positions on the squad) graduated last year.
I think my top choice is Harvard....</p>
<p>Oh...I know what your top choice is. My question assumed you weren't getting into any of these (no offense, it has nothing to do with you, just the numbers, and hence the odds); so where do you REALLY (like in, actually) want to go to school?</p>
<p>You shouldn't assume that just because a person says they want to go to Harvard, that they're only going there for the prestige or there are more suitable schools for them. Some people--myself included--don't care as much for those environment, campus life, etc. kind of things as much as the quality (academic) or the ranking of the school. </p>
<p>Mini, some people do REALLY want to go to an Ivy League school because they care more about WHERE you get your degree than HOW you get it, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.</p>
<p>"You shouldn't assume that just because a person says they want to go to Harvard, that they're only going there for the prestige or there are more suitable schools for them."</p>
<p>I wouldn't for a moment suggest that these Ivy schools are "unsuitable", or even that it is a bad thing to go simply for the prestige. Why people want to go is irrelevant. Most aren't getting in - period. "Really" as in "realistically". Harvard admissions are at 9% and this includes all the developmental admits, legacies, recruited athletes, desired URMs, sons and daughters of ambassadors, senators, congressmen, Mass. state legislators, foreign dignataries, published novelists, Olympic athletes, and holders of patents. Take them out of the equation and the odds for the normal, average, WONDERFUL, bright, caring, "suitable" applicant is around 1 in 20, give or take. (I'm not even going to begin to examine the impact of applying for financial aid, or being a foreign applicant.)</p>
<p>In other words, there are NO good reasons to LOVE schools where your odds of getting in are 1 in 20. It might happen, and it won't if you don't apply, but I wouldn't waste any love until you got in.</p>
<p>So when I ask LucyLu where she "actually" wants to go to school, it is "actually" as in, she is likely to get in and she would LOVE to go.</p>
<p>One of the most fascinating things about HYP is the fact that you're surrounded with absolutely unique, ASTOUNDING people. These are our future presidents, leaders, business moguls, etc. It's kind of like the point where famous, innovative, unique people meet other very fortunate, intelligent, hardworking people. It has to be a very humbling experience to say the least, but you learn so much outside of the classroom just from speaking with those around you.</p>
<p>Your stats are very nice (SAT+GPA). I think you'll be accepted at Brown. As for Harvard and Princeton, I think you need more and better EC's. Write great essays. Good luck!</p>