<p>although I'm only a freshman in high school, my sister is a senior and we've recently been looking at colleges and everything, her first choice being Cornell. I really love Georgetown, and not only because they're elitis, I really love all of the ivies. But with my current stats, if I continue them will I have chance at any/all/some of the ivies? I appreciate your input and no "you're too young to be worrying" posts please. Thanks so much!</p>
<p>101.25 weighted average, 98 unweighted.
1/173 = rank
writer for the literary magazine, school newspaper, in mock trial, interact club (next year I've already been elected to be interact club president...I'm the only freshman in newspaper so I hope to one day be editor in chief of that and hopefully the lit magazine as well...)</p>
<p>I want to be a lawyer w/ an english major, btw. Thanks so much and I appreciate you chancing me for all of the ivies!</p>
<p>First, I hope you realize that Georgetown is not an Ivy. Second, I hope you realize that whether or not a school is an Ivy is not the determinant of whether it is a top flight school (in this regard I refer you to, among others: Duke, Northwestern, U Chicago, UVa, Wash U, Stanford, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Middlebury, and dozens of others too numerous to mention).
Third, notwithstanding your prohibition on “you’re too young to be worrying” responses, the fact is that you are, at a minimum, too young for anyone to offer a serious assessment. You are clearly a fine student with varied ECs. That’s a good start; BUT IT IS ONLY A START!!! School will only get harder, and in addition to what courses you will take later and how you will do in them are other questions that are essential to a senior’s college application and which you cannot begin to guess at: what will your test scores look like? will you hold leadership positions in your ECs? How will you come to affect your school community and how (if at all) will that be reflected in the essays you write and the recs your teachers will write three years from now?
Have goals for your higher education and work toward those goals; that’s great. But for God’s sake don’t waste your time trying to calculate your “chances” for admission to schools which may or may not be of interest to you three years from now. Your horizons will expand and your goals might change as well.
Good luck to you. You sound like an ambitious, goal-oriented kid. I have no doubt that those qualities will stand you in good stead wherever you wind up attending college in the fall of 2013.</p>
<p>thanks and yes of course I realize that Georgetown isn’t an ivy and I said that I don’t like ivies for their prestige and I realize that other schools are just as good if not better. UChicago is an amazing school.</p>
<p>Chicago is, indeed, an amazing school, but it is absolutely nothing like either Cornell or Georgetown in atmosphere, so if you like those two you should start reading about (and eventually visiting) a number of other places.
Think about what you like in a school’s atmosphere, size, location (especially in terms of urban, suburban, rural, etc.), activities, sports-orientation, and go from there.
For example, Cornell and GU are both very into certain sports (and are Div I). Sports enthusiasm is hardly the hallmark of U Chicago. If you like the atmosphere that goes hand-in-glove with the sports thing, and if the midwest is appealing, I would strongly recommend Northwestern over Chicago. If that’s not at all important, and you like a very cerebral and even intellectually aggressive environment, you might prefer Chicago. There is an abundance of fabulous alternatives.</p>