Do I have a Chance at Ivies?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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i go to Staten Island Tech which is a very high ranked school in the country.

I have a 3.7 (92) UW
I have a 3.9 (98) W

All courses are honors

-AP Russian
-AP US
-AP World
-AP Bio
-AP lang
-AP Lit
-AP Gov
-Anantomy
-forensics
-geometry
-trig
-precalc
-BC calc
-earth science
-physics
-chem
-living environment
-sciencce research
and regular english

I feel like I have semi strong extracurriculars

Theater/Music based:
-4 years of SING
-4 years of Spring Musical
-glee club
-renagate theater club

debate type clubs:
-JSA
-Science Debate team
-Model U.s. Senate (president)

Medical/science Related:
-Mental Health awareness club
-marine biology club (president)
-als awarenessclub (president)
-autism awareness club
-did a year of science research (submitted to Quality of Life competition but sadly did not advance to semifinalist)
-shadowed two doctors
-in the process of creating a non profit organization
-underwater robotics team (programmer)
-solar car team
-in the process of making glasses in our schools makerspace lab (glasses with a motion sensor to help elderly when crossing the street)
-plan on doing NYU summer college (science)
-Perry Outreach Program

Sports:
-golf

Achievements
-got qualified from National Merit program worst case scenario i get named commended scholar
-recieved a award for science
-recieved an award for theater

If anybody can also recommend schools i would get into based on my stats id appreciate it
Also be harsh I need to know the truth

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please respond im really anxious

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What is your score on the ACT or SAT?

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sat 1500
never took act

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@brantly ^^

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Do you know your current class rank, or how well qualified you are compared to your classmates? (Top 5%, Top 10%, etc)

Also, how many kids from your high school were accepted to Ivies last year?

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@Studious99 We dont have class rank and a good amount of kids got into cornell last year, but most had higher averages like an 100 W. however, i dont think their extracurriculars were as competetive. We also had 3 accepted t havard the year before. and a few to Upenn

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Don’t worry about whether a school is an “Ivy” or not. You should apply to a range of reach, match, and safety schools that you can afford. Will your parents be paying full price, or will you be needing financial aid? What do you want to major in? Are you an under-represented minority? First generation college? There are a lot of factors to look at.

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My mom is a single mom, making around 40,000 a year i believe. Im white, I have other schools on my list as well but these are dream schools for me, thats why i just wanted to know. My dad has an assoiates degree but my mom didnt go to college in the U.s. I think for my financil standing i may be offered a good amount of aid.

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What is your dad’s income? Ivies and other highly competitive schools that give a lot of financial aid require you to submit the Fafsa AND . a form called the CSS. The CSS requires you to submit income information for both of your parents, even if only one of them has custody of you.

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@brantly my dad makes about 60 - 70 grand a year

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OK, so the first thing you need to do is to run the Net Price Calculators for EACH school you are interested in. It will give you a ballpark estimate of how much aid you will get. Every college in the U.S. has a NPC. Just google the name of the school with NPC. Here’s the one for Amherst College, just so you see what it’s like. https://www.amherst.edu/offices/financialaid/calculator/myintuition

This is what you need to be doing now – running the NPCs of a whole bunch of colleges. Also you need to be looking at a bunch of colleges that give MERIT aid. Ivies do not.

I assume you are a HS junior.

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@brantly yea im a junior,

i appreciate all the help and i have looked and my guidance counselor said i should get around 25 grand from cornell, as my dad wont pay any at all.

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stats wise tho, do i have any chance at all, at any schools even similar to ivies like williams or amherst

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Do not rely on your guidance counselor for financial aid information. Truly, they have NO idea. It does not matter that your dad WON’T pay. The college does not care. Colleges do not give financial aid based on whether parents want to pay or not. His income and assets will be included in your financial aid calculation. If you do not submit his information you will not be considered for financial aid. If he absolutely will not submit his financial info, then you cannot look at colleges that require the CSS. Google “colleges that require CSS” and you will see the list. All the Ivies are on it.

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Even if you DID get $25k from Cornell, how would you pay the rest? It costs $52k for the state colleges and $70k for the endowed colleges.

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This should not be your biggest concern right now. Applying to colleges that you can AFFORD should be your #1 concern.

I will say this: You are not out of range for highly selective colleges. However, you will not get financial aid at those colleges unless your dad fills out the CSS. As long as your parents have “average” assets for their income level, you will likely get good aid, but your dad still has to fill out the form.

What you need to be working on now is talking to your parents about the financial forms they will have to fill out: Fafsa and CSS.