<p>Are you a URM too or something? And yeah thats important for sure</p>
<p>Keep up a good GPA, get above 30 on the ACT, participate in some meaningful ECs, and I think you will have a great shot at any school in the country. Ivy League schools like Harvard always want to create a diverse class–being a Native American will definitely boost your chances. Keep up the good work!</p>
<p>Quesadilla-- do you think I’ll need to expand my ec’s a lot before senior year? I was thinking about just trying to get a club position in key club, join nhs and hold a tutoring position/ attend a good summer program and perhaps programming competitions. Will this be enough with my current ec’s?</p>
<p>Yes, imo. The parenting website thing sounds really cool- I bet you can become pretty deeply involved with that in the next few years.</p>
<p>Obviously NA will help. But I would try to get a 4.0 for the rest of high school, do well on your SATs, SATIIs, and AP tests, and become even more involved in things if possible. As a soph, you are definitely on the right track.</p>
<p>Oh, and: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1278637-chance-ivies.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1278637-chance-ivies.html</a></p>
<p>Bump 10char</p>
<p>Bump 10char</p>
<p>Ok a rule of thumb would be if you took Native America off your application would you be qualified for Harvard? If yes, then NA will help alot. What I’m trying to say is being URM will not make you qualified, you will have to be qualified yourself and then it will help you.
Ex. Asians with 2400s, 4.0 tons get rejected every year.
Native American with 2400, 4.0; will get accepted to every university and they will pay you to come to their school and fight over you.
Native American with 1900, 3.5 No chance regardless of URM
Native American with 2100, 3.7, URM helps a bit but probably no chance regardless.</p>
<p>As for you specifically, try to get a few more ECs that you are passionate about. I mean it is great list as it is and definitely as some breadth, but there is not to much width.
You would have a very good chance if you kept up the GPA and got 2200 on SAT. Also what courses are you taking?, that is a big part</p>
<p>As many people have already posted this, the standardized test scores are the biggest factor remaining in your application. I’d say anything above a 2200 gives you a good chance, anything above a 2300 gives you an excellent chance. You get the picture: Prep hardcore for that SAT and you won’t regret it!! 
chance me?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1282445-chance-mit-other-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1282445-chance-mit-other-schools.html</a></p>
<p>My sister went to Dartmouth and dated a guy who is half American Indian. On one of his visits to our home, he told us that his tuition was free at Dartmouth because of his tribal connection. If you continue to work as hard as you are, I think you should have a good chance of acceptance there and other schools (non-Ivies too) as well. Good luck to you!!!</p>
<p>Bump 10 char</p>
<p>Bump 10char</p>
<p>With reagrad to standardized testing, think about how the “majority” percentile translates to your own ethnic group. For many ivies, that means top one percent of test takers. The smaller the N ( 9,244 for AI last year), the harder this is to make sense of, but for African Americans (215,000 last year) that probably means SAT’s around 2100, and/or 700 per section. This is not a scientific fact, just a way of thinking about it. </p>
<p><a href=“http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-by-Gender-Ethnicity-2011.pdf[/url]”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/SAT-Percentile-Ranks-by-Gender-Ethnicity-2011.pdf</a></p>
<p>Of course, no guarantees, and all else must be “on par” too.</p>
<p>What is “N” and “AI”?</p>
<p>Your obviously working really hard - keep doing that. </p>
<p>My advice to you, like many, is to really study for the SATs.
Secondly, more depth to your ECs would be fantastic. Find something you really enjoy, and do it, do lots of it, and do it well. How are you enjoy your internship? Is writing/working in journalism something you want to do in the future?
Do you have a major in mind?</p>
<p>Thanks! I definitely want to do something with math or science. I’m taking a computer science class this year and will be taking AP Comp Science next year so I may apply for something like MITES. Any suggestions for ec’s?</p>
<p>N is for number, AI is American Indian. I am referring to number of American Indians taking the SAT as reported by collegeboard in the link.</p>
<p>Only 9,000?? Wow</p>
<p>Definitely apply for something like MITES. I believe they are done excepting applications
for the 2012 summer program (not positive, though), but that’s an awesome idea for summer 2013
As for EC suggestions, spend a lot of time investigating the areas your interested in, if your liking computer science maybe try developing some of your own software? Maybe start a computer science club in your school and work on developing software with the other members?
Just do things you that you will enjoy, but will still be somewhat of an intellectual challenge.</p>
<p>“Only 9,000?? Wow”</p>
<p>Well, that’s the number who identified. My guess is most with less than significant involvement, or those who are not registered, don’t identify that way.</p>