<p>is it extremely difficult to get into ivy league +stanford, MIT, and caltech from a public school?
i want to major in some kind of science, so what kind of programs should i do to make myself stand out, besides taking maximum science and math courses?
a brown summer program, would that be good?
i live right near dartmouth so something could easily be there as well...
any tips on past applicants or students would be great thanks</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter if you don’t go to a private school.</p>
<p>High school doesn’t matter unless it is nationally recognized.</p>
<p>And wrong forum.</p>
<p>The majority of people at the schools you listed went to public high schools.</p>
<p>a friend of mine got into caltech he is number 2 in our class, and his sat is lower than mine so im sure you could get into anyschool with a good rank, and high sat for some schools</p>
<p>Less than 50% of current Ivy League students graduated from Private/Charter/Magnet High Schools so obviously matriculating into one of the eight colleges from a Public HS is a very real possibility…</p>
<p>depends on the individual public school…</p>
<p>I can tell you I go to a public that’s kind of a tough school and in my memory we’ve sent several to Cornell and Penn, and there are also grads that have gone or are going to Dartmouth, Yale, Columbia, and Harvard (and those are just that I know of). We send many more to Ivy-caliber schools too, so top schools won’t reject you based on that.</p>
<p>A couple people from my school went to lower Ivies my year, and I think the salutatorian and I could’ve too if we’d applied to some. There were usually 2 or 3 Ivy Leaguers at my school each class.</p>
<p>What do you call the “lower” ivies?</p>
<p>I think it’s difficult to get into a good college from a normal public school than a super competitive private school only because in some public schools, like mine for example, we don’t really learn anything at all, which makes it kind of hard to score well on standardized tests, etc. (I remember when I took APUSH last year, it was literally three weeks before the AP exam and we were only up to the 1920s!). But if you come from a school or a region that’s underrepresented then it may even give you an advantage, so it works both ways.</p>
<p>and a lot of public schools are really great schools that do very well in college admission.</p>
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<p>The ones that aren’t Harvard, Princeton, or Yale.</p>
<p>I was told that my graduating class (large public school, not a magnet but considered a strong school) had 4 people go to Harvard, and I think that’s pretty typical. I imagine about the same for the rest of the Ivys and other top schools. My school doesn’t keep statistics (anymore) on how many people go where.</p>
<p>^I think my school had one person going to harvard in its entire history. :D</p>
<p>Seriously, my school was probably better than yours. It was one of those ones that’s always got 40 national merit semi-finalists, a few people with a perfect ACT or SAT, and kids with strong connections to academia (lots of kids at my school were kids of PHD’d professors and researchers).</p>
<p>Um, my point was that your school IS better than mine. Not probably - definitely.</p>
<p>it depends on your school really
my school is like 30% azn so most of them aim at the top schools and can actually get in</p>
<p>why are people obsessed with ivies ? unless it’s for grad school it really doesnt ****ing matter</p>
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<p>Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth. But then again, we’re not bothered by the fact that we have higher admission rates, just the rest of the ivies.</p>
<p>There were around 20 people in my graduating PUBLIC school class that went to Ivies.</p>
<p>I believe one person went to Brown from my high school, I have no recollection of anybody attending harvard, yale, or princeton in the past years from my school</p>