To start off, I am Mexican-Honduran, first generation to attend college, played soccer since I was 5, high school varsity captain and played in travel elite socccer teams, also starting varsity football kicker. I am also an athletic trainer which has given me over 350+ volunteer hours, joined latin club (language not culture) as well. what frightens me is my parents income is barely $32,000 and it’s concerning me. My gpa is 4.4 and aiming for sat of 2000. I’m in the last quarter of my junior. when junior year began I suffered a shoulder injury which required immediate surgery to repair my ligaments. The 3 quarters of my junior year I was not able to write because it was the hand of my surgery and was not even able to study because of the pain and strong medications. That forced me to have a few C’s but they were C’s in Ap/honors courses. My last quarter of Junior year I had straight A’s and overcame the obstacles. I’m planning to graduate with 11 ap courses and the rest honors. My senior year I will be performing a lot better in class and getting in the field playing in all 3 teams as I am healthy and emotionally stable From the trauma I went through. I just want to know what are my chances at Ivy league if I show them my average performance in Junior year was not on my behalf, but it was on a trauma like I explained and was able to pick myself up as soon as I was able to perform at full and recover. Thank you!
You need to target higher than 2000 for ivy. Try at least 2100.
you have multiple hooks and a good story- I think you have great chances at all ivy league schools if you can pull a 2300+ on the SAT. If I was in your position, I would be studying… A LOT!
Your story is great, but unless you get in for athletics/do incredibly well on the SAT, C’s might put an Ivy out of reach. There are plenty of other schools that won’t disregard you for a lower GPA, but because of the thousands of highly qualified applicants Ivies receive, your GPA might become an eliminating factor for them. Don’t set your mind on the Ivy League - chances are you’ll be happy wherever you go, and you will get in somewhere else great. Good luck!!
(chance back?? http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1751707-chances-for-yale-tufts-wesleyan.html?new=1 )
Also, in regards to your concerns about your parents’ income, at that level most ivies will give you a full ride all 4 years, including room and board- definitely another reason to push and try to get into an ivy.
another tip: make sure to have your counselor write in his/her letter of rec that your injury affected your grades.
Thank you for the advice! Not getting into Ivy won’t bum me out since as an athlete see great interest in D1 and D2 schools. I only want to pursue soccer in college and leave the sport once I begin studying for MCAT (med school). So thanks for the advice!