Chances for Ivies

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Ok, I know I'm probably not going to get into ivies, but, hey, anything's possible.</p>

<p>Gender: M
Location: South Carolina
High School: Public
High School Type: rarely sends grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
Class Rank: 2/400
Most Rigorous Courseload</p>

<p>SAT's: (Superscored) 2310
SAT I Math: 780
SAT I Critical Reading: 750
SAT I Writing: 780
SAT II World History: 780
SAT II Math Level 2 : 800
SAT II Chem: 770</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Debate (4 years), Cross Country (4), Track (4), Key Club (3, Pres. Senior Year), Serteen (3 years), SADD (3 years, Treasurer Junior/Senior Year), Student Council Rep. (2 years), Beta Club (2 years, Pres. Senior Year), NHS (2 years), Spanish NHS (Senior Year)</p>

<p>Volunteer: 150 hrs from Key club, 50 more from other various things</p>

<p>Essays: not bad, but not my best work.
Recs: should be pretty good.</p>

<p>Summers:
Job, volunteering, vacations, the usual.</p>

<p>Awards:
A regional writing award, multiple debate awards from regional tournies, AP scholar, NMSF, National Chemistry Olympiad Qualifier </p>

<p>I know the ivies are a longgggg shot, but if you could give me an idea (in %) of what my chances are at Brown and HYP, I'd appreciate it!</p>

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<p>bump…</p>

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<p>Fantastic scores/GPA/EC’s. You could get into a lot of great schools!</p>

<p>Harvard - High Reach/Reach
Yale - High Reach/Reach
Princeton - High Reach/Reach
Brown - High Reach/Reach
Columbia - Reach
Dartmouth - Reach/Low Reach
Cornell - Low Reach/Match</p>

<p>The only reason I say reach for almost all of them is because that their the Ivies, so they’re a reach for anyone. In any case, perhaps having one or two more dazzling EC’s and community service projects will improve your chances significantly. Not to say your ECs are bad, they are just par for the course that many of the others applying to the same schools are!
In any case, I see no reason why you wouldn’t be able to get into other top schools like Duke, Rice, Northwestern, NYU, UofChicago, etc.</p>

<p>And to add, I don’t think the Ivies are a long shot for you at all!</p>

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<p>You’re like a typical applicant to the Ivies. If you can make your essay really stand out, then I say you have a good chance.</p>

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<p>Yay! I had always thought I had, like, a 10-15% chance best to get into ANY ivy!</p>

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<p>Hey you got really good chance…congrats on your SATs…thats the thing thats freaking me out
You can chance me as well
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<p>Are you a URM? Cause then you would be in</p>

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<p>I think you have a great shot any an ivy league school!
like 90 %, especially with the SATs and GPA</p>

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<p>No, sadly, I am as white as a marshmallow. And I definitely do not have a 90% chance at Ivies- no one does. But thanks for the compliment :slight_smile: And Version, thanks for the advice!</p>