<p>Please chance me for my reaches:
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
Princeton
Yale</p>
<p>-Hispanic female
-First generation college student
-current junior
-#1 in class of about 400
-GPA: 4.35 weighted, 4.0 unweighted
-SAT: 2020 (CR: 680, M: 600, W: 740) [2nd try, may retake)
-poor school in poor county in MD</p>
<p>Freshman year
-Geometry Honors A
-English 9 Honors A
-US History Honors A
-Biology Honors A
-Piano A
-Keyboarding A
-Spanish 2 Native Speaker A
-PE/Health A</p>
<p>Sophomore Year A
-Ap Government B
- English 10 Honors A
- Algebra 2/Trig Honors A
- Newspaper (1st year) A
- Spanish 3 Native Speaker A
- Child Growth & Development A
- TV Production A</p>
<p>Junior Year
- AP English Language A
- AP Human Geography A
-AP Spanish Literature A
- Pre-Calculus A
-World History Honors A
- Newspaper (2nd year) A
- Yearbook (1st year) A
- SAT Prep/ Term paper (required) A</p>
<p>Senior Year (This is what i'll be taking next year)
- AP Calculus AB
- AP Calculus seminar (required)
- AP Chemistry
- AP Psychology
- AP English Literature
- Newspaper (3rd year)
- Yearbook (2nd year)</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities/ awards:
- Editor-in-Chief of our newspaper (11,12)
-Vice President of NHS
-Yearbook (11,12) (will be co-editor next year)
- Foreign Language Honor Society (Spanish)
- Mock trial (10,11,12)
-JV Girls Soccer (10)
-JV Tennis (10,11,12)
-SADD member</p>
<p>Summer activities:
-Yearbook Camp?</p>
<ul>
<li>recs will be great</li>
<li>essays will be good</li>
</ul>
<p>I would definitely go for the SAT retake. You do have solid chances at all your schools though:
Harvard - 15% (It’s tough to get in. With higher SATs your chances go up, but chancing the Ivies is really hard)
Johns Hopkins- 40-50% (Boost the SAT to a 2100+ and I would say you’re in)
Princeton- 15% (Again, tough admissions and tough to chance)
Yale- 15% (Same)</p>
<p>Overall I would say you have good chances at the schools you mentioned but you might want to consider broadening the schools you are looking at. Consider Cornell, Northwestern, UChicago, UCBerk, and possibly Notre Dame if you don’t mind a Catholic school.</p>
<p>I don’t think you will get accepted to Harvard. SAT’s way to low. URM status really only helps if you are African American. The other schools are also high reaches. Pretty weak EC’s for Ivy League schools as well.</p>
<p>I’d say you have a good chance at all those schools. Keep working hard and remember to listen to people with correct grammar. I’m sure they know more than others!</p>
<p>OK, but I have to really disagree with what intangliblegator just said. Latinos are the fastest growing dem. in the US, and there is a much bigger demand at ivys for hispanics, especially those with 4.0’s and SAT above 2200. I think if you raise your SAT score above 2200, youre in at one of HYP.</p>
<p>I would say raise your SAT’s to 2200+, however from what you have said demographics can be a factor in persuading AdComs that you have worked hard for that score. Your grades are very good! Although it is impossible to say for sure whether you will or will not get in, I can deduce from the info you have provided that you are a strong applicant :)</p>