Chances at Ivies

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I have already asked about my chances at Bowdoin, and based on the response, I am wondering if I would be competitive at some Ivy League universities as well.</p>

<p>Objective:
• SAT I (breakdown): 2280: 800 CR, 750 Math, 730 Writing (8 essay)
• SAT II: 660 Math II (retaking)
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.89 Weighted GPA: 4.65
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 3%
• AP (place score in parenthesis): Sophomore: Statistics (5) Junior: APUSH, Calculus BC, Chemistry
• Senior Year Course Load: AP European History, AP Biology, Calculus III and Linear Algebra, Advanced Topics in Math, Physics II, Biochemistry, Literature and Philosophy, Italian 4, Peer Leadership (class)</p>

<p>Subjective:
• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Italian Culture Club (4 years next year, Vice President currently)
JV Lacrosse (1 year)
Math team (2 years)
Starting genealogy club
Peer Leader next year
• Job/Work Experience: None
• Volunteer/Community service: Volunteering at a local forest, mission trips to West Virginia during summers to fix houses
• Summer Activities: Summer @ Brown, Working for my uncle alongside prisoners from a local prison who are in his work release program and on his bison ranch
• Essays: Will be good
• Teacher Recommendation: Will be good
• Counselor Rec: Will be good, we have a brag sheet arrangement
Other
• State: NJ
• Country: USA
• School Type: Public high school
• Ethnicity Caucasian
• Gender: Male
• Notes: Will not need any aid, $275,000+</p>

<p>The Ivies I am interested in are:</p>

<p>Harvard
UPenn
Brown
Dartmouth
Princeton</p>

<p>I am not particularly interested in Yale, Cornell or Columbia.</p>

<p>I am more into humanities but I will have had 7 years of high school math and 5 years of high school science.</p>

2

<p>SAT is good. SAT Subject Tests are not good at the moment. GPA is okay. I’m going to say all the Ivies are going to be extreme reaches due to your lack of unique extracurricular activities.</p>

3

<p>I feel you would be a tough sell for the ivies. Academics are ok but not great (gpa/SATIIs not the strongest). And ECs are ok but not great either. A little leadership it seems, hopefully the club you will start picks up. Princeton and Harvard are super high reaches. Brown, Dartmouth, Penn are more reasonable, but so much more so. If you go for an ED Dartmouth or Penn, you would have a decent shot.</p>

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<p>What sort of GPA would be more in line if top 3% isn’t stellar? My school does not have much grade inflation. Gym teachers and art teachers routinely do not give out As. I’m also expecting to do better on the SAT IIs this time as I took the math II sophomore year.</p>

5

<p>Your grades are actually pretty good, unlike what some people have said. A 4.65 puts you in league for Ivy competition. However, your EC’s and SAT 2’s counter that effect. You’re smart, yes. But no garuntees at the Ivy’s. =( Brown, Dartmouth, and UPenn are all mid/high reaches for you though! If you suddenly did an EC this summer that involved a serious commitment, you’ll be putting yourself at a better position.
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