<p>no it won’t look cheesy it will look preety decent</p>
<p>I think your EC’s are outstanding but like they said, probably need better test scores</p>
<p>Fixed Axel: good to know!</p>
<p>Are these comments just for HYPS or are they for my other schools too?</p>
<p>the 5 on ap calc bc is for dartmouth
and the ap test stuff is for all ur colleges…all i have to say is take as many as you can. The more you take the better it will look on your application.</p>
<p>oh yeah i forgot you should apply for darthmouth. With higher sat scores you would have a decent shot. Good Luck.</p>
<p>Fixed Axel, is Dartmouth good for PoliSci/Int’lRel? </p>
<p>I really don’t want to add another school to my application list, so out of my list of schools, which one do you think I should replace Dartmouth with if I were to apply to Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Its going to be incredibly difficult to get into some of these schools, even with a much higher SAT. Regardless I think you really need to revise your list. I’ll assume you get a 2150, which seems more of a possible jump than 2250. Assuming a 2150, you’re still aiming too high and too low.</p>
<p>(with a 2150)
Harvard- 10% shot
Yale- 15% shot
Princeton- 15% shot
Stanford- 20% shot
University of Boston (Trustees Scholarship)- Do you mean Bu? You’re in.
Boston College (Presidential Scholarship)- 50/50 to get in, not getting scholarship
University of Arizona (Flinn Scholarship)- In with scholarship
Indiana University of Pennsylvania- In
University of Pittsburgh. (Chancellor’s scholarship)- In with scholarship.</p>
<p>You have too many impossible reaches, and then too many safeties. Your only match is Boston College. If I were in your shoes with your grades and a 2150 I would have one reach Ivy (Dartmouth) and deletes HYPS. Dartmouth is amazing for Poli Sci. You almost can’t get better besides maybe Princeton.</p>
<p>I would then delete one of your safeties (IndianaU of P maybe?)</p>
<p>You then would have 4 more applications. I would apply to reasonable match-like schools and slight reaches. Places like Rice (slight reach), Emory, Vanderbilt, Colgate, Georgetown, Wake Forest (apply here if you can’t raise your SAT…no sat req), and Tufts. You want your apps to be like a bell curve…a couple safeties and reaches, but lots of reasonable matches and slight reaches. Right now you have the opposite.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Wow, that helps a lot. And that is so cool that you think I might have a shot for the scholarships at some of the schools! That is good to hear.</p>
<p>If I could explain my thinking about my applications a little bit.</p>
<p>HYPS: I know of many people that got admitted to one of these schools and got rejected/waitlisted to the other three. I just want to give myself as good a chance as possible. </p>
<p>The Indiana University of Pennsylvania has an amazing Honors Program, the Robert E. Cook Honors Program. It sends graduates to some of the best private and public schools in the nation after the undergraduate experience. Yes, I agree that IUP itself is a very low safety, but it is really Cook Honors I am going after. </p>
<p>Finally, why can’t I find Dartmouth’s PoliSci Major/Program on their website?</p>
<p>nevermind, I found dartmouth’s political science dept (Rockefeller right)!</p>
<p>Slipper, the percentages you give I feel are still really generous. Not sure why Stanford is twice as easy to get into…and isn’t Harvard’s acceptance rate down to about 7% this past year? And thats brought up by the athletic/developmental/legacy admits, so for an unhooked kid, the real percentage is probably brought down. And even then, a 2150 is not an average score for unhooked applicants, so really the percentage goes down even further. You really need to get those test scores up.</p>
<p>It’d be great if you can get 2300+, but realistically, that probably won’t happen. Nevertheless, I agree with Slipper, you need more match-type schools.</p>
<p>If it doesn’t work out, pick your in state school, then get GREAT grades & then apply to transfer to Cornell. Patience little grasshopper, you are on the right path…</p>
<p>For HPY, kids from schools that are not well known to them, usually the ones who make it are the top 2 or 3 kids who took the very hardest courses, and have very high SATs. Unless the kid has a strong “hook” of some kind. Don’t see you in that category.</p>
<p>The other top schools are high reaches for you for the same reason. However, if you have a safety and a couple of match schools picked, especially if you can get into them early through EA or rolling admissions, you can certainly go to town on your reaches. Sometimes surprising things happen.</p>
<p>Sorry.. You seem like a very involved student and all < Break></p>
<p>but nothing truly stands out from your application that makes me interested</p>
<p>I hope that makes more sense.</p>
<p>Yeah, its unfortunate but I agree. Even with a 2250 HYPS is a really big longshot, anything under that I don’t really see happening.</p>
<p>bump 10 char</p>
<p>I just got my SAT II scores back. </p>
<p>770 USH
750 Lit
620 Math II</p>
<p>I think I am going to take the ACT in Sept. and the Math SAT II over again in October and not even bother with the SAT I anymore. </p>
<p>What do these scores do to my chances at an ivy and the other schools on my list? Furthermore, what do y’all think about my standardized testing plan?!!!</p>
<p>Tufts, Georgetown, and GWU all have excellent International Relations departments. Don’t make the mistake of getting too attached to the Ivies just for the sake of their ivyness. It’s the road to heartbreak for many people. It’s OK to apply, but keep other options open.</p>
<p>bump 10 char</p>
<p>I agree. Your SAT’s are the weakest part of ur stats.
If you raised it to maybe in the high 2200s or low 2300s u’d have a much better chance =)</p>
<p>Have you considered replacing one of your Ivies with Brown? Yes, I know it’s an Ivy as well, but it’s a bit easier to get into (or so I hear) and international relations and affairs is one of its most popular majors, according to the Princeton Review.</p>