<p>Leadership Academy
Spanish 2
German 2
Hon. English
Hon. Physics
AP Govt.
AP Calc</p>
<p>This is what I'm taking Senior year:
Leadership Academy 2
Hon. Spanish 3
Hon. German 3
Hon. World Lit
Astronomy
AP Stats
AP World History</p>
<p>My ACT score is: 30</p>
<p>I'm president of my school's Leo Club. Girl Scout for 13 years (Assistant Troop Leader), part of the Speech/Debate team, and National Honor Society.</p>
<p>Do I have a chance of getting in? Any suggestions on classes or activities to improve my chances?</p>
<p>Need your GPA weighted and unweighted along with your intended major. Also you have nothing outstanding or interesting in your EC’s. ACT is not competitive so retake and aim for a 33+. Ivy League schools are reaches for everyone including applicants with perfect GPA/Test Scores. I would go ahead an apply if you can afford the application fees but I would look at other schools where you would have a more realistic chances for acceptance.
Sorry to be a downer. Good Luck</p>
<p>Without even looking at your GPA, your ACT of 30 is just at Cornell’s 25th percentile score – meaning that 75% of accepted students had that score or better. At other ivies, such as HYP, the 25th percentile score is a 31, so you are below that score. As Gumbymon suggested, your ACT is just not competitive for the ivies and you need to set your sites on more realistic schools.</p>
<p>To add to what @gibby said about your test scores, unless you have achieved a lot in the ECs you mentioned, they are a bit lacking. You mentioned adding ECs in your senior year, which makes me think you don’t have a firm grasp on what highly selective schools are looking for in ECs - multi-year commitments and state or national-level achievements. Also, do you need financial aid? </p>
<p>It is so sad that students ask themselves this question. The Ivy League is an athletic conference! Schools that play in this conference have different personalities.</p>
<p>When high schoolers and transfer applicants make threads about admission to “an Ivy League,” people tell them that the Ivy League is an athletic conference.</p>
<p>When people are denouncing the Ivies’ admissions policies, studentries, and academics, and qualities of life, they “forget” that the Ivy League is an athletic conference.</p>
<p>The ‘Ivy League’ has many connotations, but I just don’t see how someone who would be happy at Dartmouth could love Brown just as much. Fit is so, so important.</p>
<p>@International95 Because prestige plays a large factor in the perceptions people have of others. “Oh, this person went to an Ivy? He must be pretty impressive.” Ivy schools, though just part of an athletic conference, are highly ranked and have relatively low admission rates, which basically makes it seem that you have to be “selected” from the applicant pool.</p>
<p>Prestige is associated with increased chances for success, and sometimes people are either hasty or are simply just willing in overlooking the differences between the schools, as they are more focused on that label that makes them a student of an Ivy.</p>