Chances at Ivy + MIT/S

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello everybody, its my first post on here and I guess I got caught by the college frenzy. Can I please ask for some advice on how to proceed with the rest of my years? Well here goes:</p>

<p>I am a Junior coming from a highly selective public magnet school. </p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.99 (one elective soph year)</p>

<p>Rank: School doesn't rank, but I guess top 5% out of 270. </p>

<p>AP/IB Courses: AP Chemistry, IB History (Max that can fit on schedule) (Junior Year) / AP Bio, AP BC Calculus, AP Physics, IB History, IB Environmental Systems (Max that can fit on schedule) (Senior Year). All other courses are honors at our school. </p>

<p>SAT I: 2260 (790 Math, 730 CR, 740 W) - Should I retake this?</p>

<p>ECs: Although I am a Junior, I will list the activies as being continued to Senior Year (which they will be).
- Biological Research (9-12): Worked together with professors at school on a research project. Entered various competitions, but won none yet.<br>
- BIO Club (9-12): Elected Web Designer, part of the council. Actively participating at bakesales.
- Chess Club (9-12): Joined the School Chess Team in Junior Year, won two regional tournements.
- HOSA (10-12): Actively participating at fundraisers. Entered Bio Competitive Events
- St. Jude's Reach (10-12): Actively participating at fundraisers.
- Entrepreneurial Science (11-12): Along with classmates, a new biotech company was created with one of our professors as an advisor. If a drug passes our tests, it will be on the market. We also hope to publish our findings in a journal.
- Science Olympiad (11-12): Entering Bio Competitions
- Science League (10, 12): Bio I, Bio II Competitions
- MUN (11-12)
- Creative Writing (11-12)
- NHS</p>

<p>Volunteer Work: 100+ Hours in the Library
50+ Hours Tutoring Children
50+ Hours at the Hospital</p>

<p>Additional Information: White male, low-income, immigrant (US citizen) (Does this also count as first generation? My dad didn't go to college, but my mom has a foreign college diploma.)</p>

<p>Main Schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UPenn, Columbia, Cornell, MIT, Stanford. </p>

<p>I hope to major in bio and I hope to start another bio club, but I'm afraid that it may be too many bio ECs. Recently, I found a great interest in writing, and I'm thinking about entering the school newspaper, becoming an editor, etc. However, I may think this may make me too stretched out in the end (and I think it may be a little late), so I am not sure of what I could do. </p>

<p>Advices on how I should proceed with anything would be greatly appreciated!</p>

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<p>You have very good stats but ivys are really random and unpredictable. You have a good shot at all those schools (but they’re reaches as well). And just list the ECs most important to you. best of luck!
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<p>As stated before, you have a chance to get into all of the schools. However, Ivy schools tend to reject students with near perfect GPAs and SAT scores. Keep up with the ECs and you’ll likely get into at least one of them.
Good luck!
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<p>You’re better off sticking with the Bio focus—no need to diversify, especially so late. If you’ve only taken the SAT once, you might want to consider retaking to try to break 2350 mark.</p>

<p>Considering the Ivies are pretty unpredictable, take these with a grain of salt:
Harvard — reach
Yale — reach
Princeton — reach
UPenn — low reach
Columbia — low reach
Cornell — match
MIT — reach
Stanford — reach</p>

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<p>ivie leagues, mit, and stanford get kids with perfect stats all the time. to get in you have “to jump off the page” </p>

<p>example: last years valdictorian at my school
gpa: 3.85uw, 4.28w, 4.09 uc gpa
sat: 2190, math 2: 720, Chem:730</p>

<p>accepted to harvard, yale, stanford, mit, uc berkeley, ucla </p>

<p>How?
He had cancer at the time when his mom, dad, brother, and sister died in car crash. He had the most heart felt personal statement my counselors, principal, and english teacher have ever read. During his cancer treatment he went to go do research on cancer at ucsf. He was also an ap scholar with honor. </p>

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<p>DarkDays, first off, DO NOT RETAKE THE SATs! You did great, and (from my knowledge) beat the mean for most of the top schools. You have A GREAT CHANCE AT ALL OF THE MENTIONED SCHOOLS. As a current Penn student, your numbers were better than mine and most of my current classmates! Your EC’s are impressive too.</p>

<p>Since you are a junior, and you have time before you apply. I would heed FutureENTSurgeon’s advice. Try to do something UNBELIEVABLE. Do something no other high school student you know has done. In fact, I just read a short book written by a current UPenn student that was really helpful on this matter. I would take a look if I were you:</p>

<p>[Amazon.com:</a> The Ivy League 4.0 eBook: Vineet Patil: Kindle Store](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/The-Ivy-League-4-0-ebook/dp/B0030IM73C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262222358&sr=8-1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/The-Ivy-League-4-0-ebook/dp/B0030IM73C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262222358&sr=8-1)</p>

<p>You don’t need a kindle to read it! And it really helped me as a college student!</p>

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<p>Wow thx everyone for the replys! Very helpful advice indeed. Thx Mentor, I’ll definitely take a look into the book. </p>

<p>I need to now find something unique to do…</p>

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<p>I would continue to develop the bio passion, entering (and hopefully winning) as many competitions as possible. Your best chance at the top schools is to develop one passion and to achieve exceptional accomplishments in it.</p>

<p>I’d also work on your scores. HYP 75th percentile is 790 in each section, which is where you want to be if you don’t have a hook.</p>

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<p>You’re on target for all of them, I’d say your chances for cornell and penn are pretty big too considering your scores, just ace your essays and get some great recommendations and you’re fine</p>

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<p>First of all, you are a solid applicant and have great chances where you are applying. </p>

<p>BUT:</p>

<p>“Entrepreneurial Science (11-12): Along with classmates, a new biotech company was created with one of our professors as an advisor. If a drug passes our tests, it will be on the market. We also hope to publish our findings in a journal.”</p>

<p>Dude… you cannot be serious. It’s not a biotech company… it’s a project not matter how optimistic Dr. P maybe. We don’t even have a drug and we don’t even know if the idea (which we didn’t even come up with) works. And publishing in a journal??? dude…</p>

<p>“Recently, I found a great interest in writing, and I’m thinking about entering the school newspaper, becoming an editor, etc.”</p>

<p>Eh… it’s not that easy at our school. It takes a few years to become editor.</p>

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<p>You have fantastic stats. Great shot at all of them, but Ivies are unpredictable, so don’t expect it either :)</p>