<p>lol thanks, but sometimes I feel its just a waste of like $300 in application fees. Well, we'll just have to see I don't know yet what I'm doing. </p>
<p>bump anyone?</p>
<p>I only have two bits of advice:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Understand that shoe-ins don't exist when applying to HYP
HYP are so highly selective that, statistically speaking, the odds are severely stacked against you. No one on here - even if you had a 2400, 4.0, and already travelled to Mars - can really say that you should definately get in. It's too much of a gamble. You're a good candidate, sure, but so is everyone else who applies.</p></li>
<li><p>You need to develop a "hook"
Traditionalists would probably scoff at me suggesting a "thematic" application, but when your GPA, scores, and activities are strong, but not necessarily enough to set you in the top decile of applicants to Yale, you need something else working in your favor - superior marketing. In a college application, you need to sell yourself. Take me as an example. I applied to Dartmouth - I know, it's not HYP - and I was accepted. My scores were nothing too impressive, and my junior-year GPA was pretty bad, but I actively tried to sell myself through my essays and reccomendations. I made sure the adcoms knew that I was the first person - ever - to try for the Ivy League from my small, rural school. I also pushed the image of myself being innovative - founding a Teen Court program, a debate team, an Amnesty International Chapter, an innovative new approach to youth leadership in the Archdiocese of Louisville, and so on. It worked. You need something to * hook * your adcoms, to make them KNOW that they NEED you at HYP. </p></li>
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<p>Good luck.</p>
<h2>-Bri</h2>
<p>Brice Douglas Lawrence Acree
Dartmouth, Class of 2009</p>
<p>Oh, yea, and...</p>
<ol>
<li> Apply to lots of schools<br>
Boston University
Tufts University
Amherst College
Boston College
New York University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Columbia University
Providence College
Northwestern University
Vanderbilt University
Wake Forest University
University of California, Los Angeles
Washington University (St. Louis)
Georgetown University (Washington D.C.)
Davidson College (University?)
Centre College (Danville, KY)
Emory University</li>
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<p>Do your research!!! There are so many good schools - don't short-change yourself by not exploring. Shopping before you buy is a good idea, and also remember - there's more to college than just the name. HYP are great, but there are lots of other excellent schools, many of which might actually be a better fit FOR YOU, and that's all that matters</p>
<p>lol Chancellor, I don't think you really understood the point of this thread, or at least didn't read it through. Thanks for the advice, and I will certainly consider it no matter where I apply, but if you read the whole thread you'd see that I have no interest in applying to HYPSM. Possibly Columbia, but since you can't be bothered to read it all, I'll sum up for you where I really have an interest in going, and if you have any advice for me I'd appreciate it. </p>
<p>Barnard
UPenn
NYU
Brandeis
BU
U of Maryland
Rutgers
(maybe Columbia)</p>
<p>thanks for your list, I'll certainly do more research into those schools I wasn't already considering.</p>
<p>nobody has anything to say so they can make me feel like crap?? no? you guys are usually so good at that!</p>
<p>I hope they don't. Cause I would take offense too!
But Emory is a good place, and one that people often forget about.
Columbia and BU could happen, better chance at NYU. And I don't know anything about the rest of the schools, but you'll prob get into most of 'em.
Our key is making people love us.</p>
<p>well, this is my last shot at bumping, and if nobody replies, well I'll just have to go to community college - or kill myself. Which one is worse by the way?</p>
<p>Did You Say Community College!?????????!</p>
<p>I think you have a pretty good spread of reaches and matches. A couple of the schools I don't know, so I'm not sure about safeties.</p>
<p>If I got my SATs up say... 100 points (to 2200) would that help me at any of the schools I listed?? (second list not the first :) )</p>
<p>It will help you at all of them, but no way to tell if it's enough.</p>
<p>bumpety bump - come on I reached 1000 views!! now i can die happy aaahhhhhh.........</p>
<p>I think your class rank is more to worry about than your SAT. Sure you should bring up the SAT though.</p>
<p>So, is your small school very competitive? That's what it looks like to me.</p>
<p>Well my school is very competitive but its not very competitive in the sense that any college is going to recognize that. Its very small (as I said, 50 is our biggest class yet) It's pretty new - I think we just had our 6th or 7th graduating class, but its full of academically strong, motivated girls (yeah all girls school) that are instilled with loads of that jewish guilt - and mothers who want them to become doctors (or at least marry doctors!). Yeah so I mean I have a 3.9 uw but that probably only puts me near the bottom of the top 10 - which is only like top 25%! So its very competitive but thats probably not going to show. If I have a really great GPA is my class rank still going to hurt me alot?</p>
<p>I have to say, the lack of interest in judging my accomplishments is a crushing blow to my ego. I just don't think I can take it.</p>
<p>Don't worry, when the time comes adcoms will judge enough to make up for it.</p>
<p>im never gonna stop bumping. ever. no really ever.</p>
<p>Just 62 more views and I've hit 1500!!</p>