Side notes: I am a high-school student in the 12th grade, and I am fully aware that attending an Ivy League school is no easy feat and that those schools only accept the best. That is one of the reasons why I am posting here, for advice from others.
I have been attending a college-prep high-school since freshman year. For my freshman and sophomore years I was in pre-IB, and for my junior and senior years I was in the IB program. I would like someone to honestly and objectively tell me if, based off of my standing, it is possible for me (or someone in my circumstances) to get into Ivy League.
From 9th to the end of the 1st semester of 10th grade I had a C-B average. However, starting with the 2nd semester of 10th grade I boosted to a student who had all A’s (no grade was below a 95) and that has stuck until even now (I am currently in the 12th grade). I have received a 95 or higher in all of my IB courses and have received a 5 on all of the 6 AP’s I have taken so far (I am taking another 5 this year, but testing season hasn’t occurred yet).
I received a 2200 on my SAT, and have qualified for the SAT Merit within my state. I have been doing extra curricular activities since the 6th grade, and have been taking extra courses (always with A’s, a total of 10 of them) online since the 5th grade. Along with this I have several recommendations and am capable of creating well formed essays for submission.
However, even with all of this I’m concerned with my dream of being able to make it into Ivy League. My concern rises from the fact that I had a C-B average for 1 1/2 years, even though I was in pre-IB and was taking AP courses. Is it possible for me to make it into Ivy League?
Forgot to mention that my situation for mathematics is special, in 11th grade I took AP Calculus BC along with IB Math Studies HL.
What is your unweighted GPA? That makes a big difference. Most colleges look at your GPA first. Also, what extra-curriculars do you do, and what stands out about you to adcoms? What differentiates you from all the other kids who have a 2200 and dream of going to an Ivy League school?
About 60,000 kids have test scores as least as high as yours - there are about 14,000 freshman seats at the Ivies (and slightly more than 40% of them are gone by now, ED & SCEA). The odds are not in your favor.
My EC activities are currently robotics club (of which I’m the Vice-President) and I am also a junior prosecuting attorney at Teen Court. I have been doing robotics since the beginning of 9th grade and TC since 6th grade.
Unweighted GPA: 3.9
Weighted GPA: 4.9
As you can possibly tell, I have an extreme and long-lasting love for mathematics. I absolutely love pure maths and theoretical computer science, I even went to National Science Fair in the 10th and 11th grades for my projects in the subjects. I’ve been in love with problems like the “P=NP” problem since the 5th grade and have researched them since. Whenever I become interested about a subject or a goal, I become completely determined to do so. For example, as you can tell my grades absolutely sky-rocketed half-way through the 10th grade. That was the result of me becoming completely determined to do the best I could from then on out.
You seem like you would be capable of succeeding as a student there, and your ECs seem good, but the Ivies are reaches for everyone. I would say your application is good but not spectacular in the Ivy applicant pool. I’m not qualified to give you any more information than that.
How can your uw GPA be 3.9 when you said you were a B-C student for your first three semester of high school?
@NickFlynn is right how do you have a 3.9 when you said you were a c-b student? Also ivies like 4.0 students
Slight error on my part, meant the first 2 semesters and I suppose my GPA rose even further due to my online courses.
@prettygreat Sure, the Ivies like 4.0 students, but not everyone with a 4.0 GPA gets in, and plenty of people without them get into Ivies. A 3.9 GPA is perfectly respectable.
With a 3.9 UW GPA, you should be fine.
Well, whatever, if your uw GPA is that high and you’ve got a 2200, you’re a plausible candidate. Just don’t fall in love with Ivies, there are plenty of other great schools.
Have you already applied to Ivy Leagues? You said that you were a 12th grader, and most schools’ deadlines are in 4- hours… Either way, don’t expect much.
@pupscotch I know I’m not saying it’s bad I’m just saying they do look for 4.0 students
If you had a B/C average for the 3 semesters of 9th grade and the first semester of 10th, how did you raise it to a 3.9 over the next 3-4 semesters?
A B/C average would be around 2.5. Seems mathematically impossible to get that unweighted to a 3.9.
Anyways, chances with any C’s (much less multiple Cs) are very, very unlikely at any Ivy. Even Cornell.
Your GPA can not be that high. If you believe it is, then your math is not as good as you think!