<p>I was homeschooled my whole life until sophomore year, when I decided to go to public school. Will this help by making me unique? I am a senior this year. Please chance me on all the Ivy League schools. Also, what schools might I get good merit aid at?</p>
<p>GPA: unweighted-4.57
weighted-4.0
Class Rank: 3/396
SATs: 2340: 800V/750M/790W
SAT IIs: 750 Lit, 770 Math I, 760 Math II
APs: English, Physics, Calc, Stats, Bio, Gov
(my school only offers a few more)</p>
<p>Essay: I think it is really good. I talked about changing to public school and how I grew from it. I related the experience to going to college.</p>
<p>Recs: I saw them. They are very good.</p>
<p>Sports:
Varsity Cross Country, Indoor Track, and Outdoor Track
Team Captain
Student-Athlete Leadership Group</p>
<p>EC:
Model UN for 3 years (won best delgation at Northeastern last year), also President
Math Team for 2 years
President of Math Honor Society
4 other Honor Societys
National Honor Society
Dance out of school for 14 years
Horsebackriding
Work at a barn</p>
<p>Awards:
National Merit Semi-finalist
Rensselaer Medal Award
Wellesley Book Award</p>
<p>There isn't much to tell you about your chances at Ivies. I think you will get into at least two of Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Penn. It's hard to say what your chances are at HYPC, but I think you will be very competitive. Your application is ideal, just keep working hard :)</p>
<p>Of course given how competitive ivy league admissions are, nothing is ever guaranteed. But you are definitely a solid applicant academically (great class rank and SAT scores!). Your ECs look a bit on the weak side though. Looks like you're in a few clubs/academic teams and some running sports. As long as you make sure you seem to be passionate about at least one/a few activities on your apps you might be ok. Just remember, why would the ivy league want someone who really has no passion or big involvement in other activities? They get more than enough applicants with your scores. They want something more. Oh, and sorry, but being homeschooled does not make you unique in any way unfortunately. Overall, I think that if you apply to all the ivies, like Neo said you'll probably get into at least a few.</p>
<p>BTW if you want more responses try posting in other peoples' threads then they will chance you back. If you don't chance anyone you're not likely to get any responses.</p>
<p>Nobody wants to chance another ivy league admission thread ( no offense ) because even if the applicant is insanely likely to recieve admission like yourself, the response will always been the same. </p>
<p>You have a very good chance and i'd bet money that you'd get into at least 1 ivy league. </p>
<p>Only thing holding you back is your EC's, they are extremely scattered and I dont really see any unique thing about you. </p>
<p>These specific EC's I wouldn't really qualify as an ivy league extracurricular: Dance out of school for 14 years(this could count as a good EC, but unless you did comps or performances it probably isn't too good)
Horsebackriding
Work at a barn (if it was paid then it's a pretty good, but if not then it's not)</p>
<p>And the book award is not prestigious at all ( don't mention it )</p>
<p>^ Very true. Plus they're are a crapshoot anyway. Nobody can accurately predict whether anyone will get into HYPSM/or any of the other ivies. Basically all anyone can say is that "Person X" has a shot.</p>
<p>I did dance competitvely until I started cross country and track. This change was when I transferred to public school. I danced at several studios and was very serious about it. I do get paid for my job. It is basically a full time job over breaks, but only weekends when i am in school. I did not do a lot of extra curriculars because I would rather put a lot of time into a few and be good at them. When I danced I was sometimes in class from 4 to 10 after school. Now that I run I have put huge amounts of time into that instead, including attending running camps and cross training. I plan to run in college so I have had to put a lot of effort into that to catch up since I have only been running a couple years.</p>