<p>Any thoughts in my chances for Harvard, Cornell, and BC? Those are my top choice schools, so any opinions would be greatly appreciated :)</p>
<p>I'll be a senior at the start of next school year, and I attend a pretty good high school in NY.</p>
<p>GPA: 4.42 (weighted) out of a 4.3 scale, I'm taking all the honors or AP classes that are offered. Currently valedictorian.
APs: AP Chem 5; I took APUS, AP Lit and AP Physics this year; 3 more for next year
SAT: 800 CR, 770 M, 720 W; 2290 total
SAT II: Chem 800, Math I 750
I also take Project Lead the Way engineering courses, which can earn college credit through RIT.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Soccer: Grades 9-12
Volleyball: 9, 10; Indoor Track: 11 (don't know which I'll do next year)
Lacrosse: 9, 11-12
Violin: Played since 4th grade, currently in orchestra and the select String Ensemble
- Performed with String Ensemble at NYSSMA Majors Festival and received the highest award given 3 years running
Singing: In Women's Choir and select Chamber Choir
Drama Club: 9-12, cast member in 3 shows
NHS: Only juniors and seniors can be inducted, so Grades 11-12
- Secretary for the upcoming year
Tri-M: 10-12
- Secretary for the upcoming year
Project Cafe (local mostly student-run community service organization): Grades 10-12
- Chair of both Newsletter and Health Care Symposium Committee - 11
- Secretary - 12
Parish Youth Group (another community service organization through my church): Grades 7-12
- Youth Representative to the church's Parish Council, Grades 11-12
Job: Part-time cashier at a drugstore year-round
- Cashier at a bookstore in the summer (in addition to my other job)</p>
<p>I have received athletic awards--Scholar Athlete, 2nd Team All-League, etc.--and academic ones, but there are too many academic ones to list. Average ~4 per year from individual classes.
Significant Awards: Quarterly Achievement Award, 2006
- Junior Book Award - $20,000 scholarship to Wells College</p>
<p>I'm on varsity for lacrosse, track, soccer, but I only played JV in 9th and 10th for volleyball. I love to play, but there's no way I'm good enough to play any of these sports at a D-I level.</p>
<p>I think you have as good of a chance as most do for harvard. Your SAT is fine, and obviously your grades as well. However, i'm sure you know that admission to Harvard is often the luck of the draw. I do think you'll get in to Cornell and BC.
good luck</p>
<p>Yeah...I'm hoping to be on the lucky end of that draw. Goddamn, WHY did I have to fall in love with Harvard when I visited?? I wasn't even going to apply.</p>
<p>You have a very strong shot at Cornell and should definitely get accepted to Boston College. I wouldn't be too worried. As for Harvard, who can tell? You will be a competitive applicant though, so it is worth applying.</p>
<p>you have GREAT grades and all that stuff. you already know that. nobody can say that you'd be guaranteed for harvard cuz nobody is. you have a better shot than most though.</p>
<p>honestly though, i think you should be looking at a few more ivies and top tier colleges other than harvard and cornell. although your stats are very good, harvard is a coin flip even for the perfect student. cornell, on the other hand, is considered to be probably the least prestigious school in the ivy league.</p>
<p>i dno't know what field you want to go into, but i suggest that you should take a look at Dartmouth, Columbia, Duke, Northwestern, WashU before skipping directly to BC and colleges like Skidmore, Syracuse, or St. Lawrence. </p>
<p>you won't need more than one solid safety school, because you're bound to get into one of the upper tier ones. i'd say that BC is already a safety for you, so focus on looking for school sin the first and second tier that suit your strengths and interests.</p>
<p>Your numbers are great. But your ECs lack anything truly spectacular, even for some second tier schools. You should definitely try for Harvard, but I don't think you'll stand out in their applicant pool.</p>
<p>I agree about adding some more top schools to your list. While Harvard might be a reach even with your outstanding achievements, schools like Dartmouth, Duke, Northwestern, UChicago, and Penn would be great matches and you would probably get accepted to at least a few in that range. I am not saying you should apply to these specifically - just pick a few more schools in this range before applying to ultra-safeties like Skidmore, Syracuse, or St. Lawrence.</p>
<p>You definitely have good extracurriculars, so do not worry too much. The point that ses was likely making is that in the Harvard applicant pool there will be everything from chess grand masters to Olympic athletes to Intel Finalists to students who have raised millions of dollars for various charities. However, the majority of Harvard students are there because they are very bright and worked extremely hard in high school, so don't let all the students who saved the world intimidate you. But I would definitely add some other Ivy League and equivalent schools to your list.</p>
<p>come on leave the kid alone don't be so critical about him, hes got it into Cornell and BC easy. For ec's i think your fine, just try doing something productive this summer, like battling Malaria in Uganda....</p>
<p>Heh...If you're talking about me (the original poster), I'm actually a girl. If you read closely, amidst a ton of other stuff it says I'm in Women's Choir. It's well hidden, though, so it's okay :)</p>