<p>Hi everyone, I'm a high school junior, and I was wonderng about my chances to get into an ivy or stanford, as well as what I should be doing in terms of this next year.</p>
<p>Stats </p>
<p>2310 SAT (720 math, 790 W, 800 CR) - this should go up this year
4.0 uw GPA, 4.8w (assuming current grades into senior year)
10 ap's, 5 on calc bc so far
238 psat, nmsf (i guess?)</p>
<p>ec's
-7th CA state foreign extemp (speech), 31st state Student Congress, Optimist district finalist (reno, NV).
-Captain of Congress team - next year should become captain speech team
-5 plays - nominated best supporting actor in bay area by american musical theater san jose
-MUN president - won 2005 stanford tournament
-Founded Spanish Club
-Twice visited Mexico, lost appendix there, and got on public television
-Cricket Club Treasurer - the sport not the bug!
-School Site Councilmember, active member of schedule evaluation commitee
-Piano, 10 years
-interned at semiconductor company, worked in labs and with a patent lawyer, wrote part of the brief for a trademark lawsuit.</p>
<p>I think I have good essay material, and my counselors like me. I would appreciate any comments or suggestions. Thank you.</p>
<p>....why do you post?
you'll apply even if people on here say you dont have no shot whatsoever</p>
<p>dude you should have enough common sense to know that your scores are great, you have nice ec's, and a great transcript... quit wasting peoples time </p>
<p>now that thats over.
apply to ivys if its your thing.. you're bound to get in somewhere</p>
<p>turkeylips73, you do have an excellent app there, but when it comes to HYPS, what seems to be a really ckufing awesome app isn't much. I've seen applicants with as good as and better applications than yours, and still were rejected from HYPS. Harvard is a bit of a reach. Yale, not so much; Princeton, same; Stanford ... pretty much the same.</p>
<p>Not to say you don't have a chance, 'cause you do. But other schools like Berkeley or Cornell are matches. </p>
<p>Apply if you want. But do choose a college that you actually <em>want</em> to go to, not one that simply has prestige.</p>