<p>I am trying to decide which school to apply ED. I really love Penn and Brown..but do I stand a chance at any of them?</p>
<p>School info:
urban public school
NJ
Sent someone to John Hopkins this year so far (with a 1540 SAT)-- Columbia (with an 1850 SAT) and Cornell (with a 1900 SAT) last year</p>
<p>Me:
enrollment: fall 2011
African American Female
Under $60,000 income</p>
<p>Academics
Current GPA: 4.0 on a 4.0 scale
Junior Schedule: AP History (4), AP English (4), AP Physics B (dual enrollment-- 8 credits already earned), precal, french III etc etc
Senior Year: AP Calculus AB, AP English, AP Chemistry, </p>
<p>SAT
1950 first attempt
630 m, 640 cr, 680 w
SAT II pending
ACT pending...i took practice test and got a 31</p>
<p>**
LEADERSHIP**
-Student Rep to Board of Education (only student on board)
-County Director for official state student political organization (more than 2,000 members state wide)--worked on '08 and '09 campaigns locally in NJ and in states like Michigan and Pennsylvania.
-Editor (chief)-- school newspaper
-NHS Vice President
-Varsity Soccer
-Vice President of Class (10)
-Financial adviser for an organization (music based--family owned)
--I do not add up my volunteer hours but ive worked in a soup kitchen and for the NHS beaucoup.</p>
<p>Awards
-- Student of the Year-- Elks
-- Gold in State Competition (Original Essay)
-- Numerous awards for excellence in an academic subject (within the school)</p>
<p>Others
-- I attended a Saturday program (called saturday scholars) every saturday morning :/ with Rutgers University during my sophomore year
-- Poetry publications at local library</p>
<p>**
Summer:**
LEAD SBI @ UMichigan (UPenn is a partner school in this program)</p>
<p>I think you should apply ED at Brown if you want to maximize your chances at an Ivy league. Other Ivies will be out of the question due to low SAT scores.</p>
<p>^eak25-- 4 people from my school last year and the year before went to top schools (cornell, columbia, upenn, john hopkins) with a sub-1900 sat score</p>
<p>But none of them went to any of the Upper Ivies. So maybe one or two URM’s goes to Cornell or Columbia or UPenn, but none going to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton with such low SAT scores. And if they weren’t URMs, they wouldn’t have been accepted.</p>
<p>As an african-american with great credentials you have a leg-up on the competition. The schools you are considering look for diversity in their incoming class. While a particular degree/program of study is generally not important, if you are a female and say interested in engineering, that would be a plus.</p>
<p>thanks for the feedback.
yea i looked at their list of schools. none of them applied to HYP–and i dont plan to either.
i am only asking for the lwer ivies. however, i really dont like cornell or dartmouth(sp)
and its not only ivies im interested in.
it’s other top schools such as georgetown, john hopkins and uchicago</p>
<p>i want to major in history— national security.
i love astrophysics but my ECs and leadership has nothing to do with that major and i dont want that to look weird</p>
What else did they have?</p>