<p>Hi, I am currently a sophomore in high school and I am wondering about how my chances for getting into an ivy league are looking. First of all, I am currently taking all honors classes in school, I am self-studying AP chem, AP physics, AP calc, AP world history, and AP Psych. Im in my school's swim team (JV) and I participate in different ECs. I am the Vice President of my school's math club and SciOly team. </p>
<p>The colleges I specifically hope to attend are MIT, Stanford, or Harvard. Thank you in advance for the advice!</p>
<p>Also, did you take PSAT in sophomore year?</p>
<p>Have you won usamo yet?</p>
<p>jzh:</p>
<p>My recommendation – type the following search into google:</p>
<p>“Harvard Common Data Set” (this will work well for most schools, btw).</p>
<p>In Tab B, you will find admissions information about Harvard’s incoming class. For the schools you mention, you will find that average SATs are in the mid-700s, and average GPAs are also very high. (Students generally have taken all Honors and AP).</p>
<p>Also, these schools reject 90-95% of their applicants. At least half (probably more) of the rejected applicants are academically qualified for these schools.</p>
<p>Now – that’s the bad news.</p>
<p>Here’s the good news – some people actually are admitted every year. So, when it comes time to apply, if your stats are competitive, you should try.</p>
<p>My PSAT score was a 209 for this year 
(80 on math)
I made nationals for Chemistry Olympiad this year also.
My current GPA is 4.00 unweighted.</p>
<p>Is 209 normal for a sophomore or is it considerable low? :(</p>
<p>That’s fine, in the end it doesn’t really matter what you score sophomore year.</p>
<p>I think I got sub-200 sophomore year. Got 222 Junior year (won National Merit off of that) and 2330 on SAT (One sitting, 1600 on M+CR).</p>
<p>Just keep reading stuff (doesn’t matter what it is, it doesn’t even have to be intellectual in nature) and try to improve comprehension, and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Thanks a bunch Petersuu!</p>
<p>You have decent chance, but that would depend on your hooks. As an unhooked applicant, you would probably need more competitions in order to have a shot at MIT. If you’re hooked, then you’re probably fine.</p>
<p>You went to USACO as a soph? Mad props</p>