<p>Hey guys, I'm new t this website and I was just wondering what I have to do with my four years of high school to be accepted into an ivy league school. My first semester passed and I didn't d very good :/</p>
<p>World History: B
Biology: B
PLTW (Engineering): B
Spanish: B
Communications: A
Geometry: A
Gym: A</p>
<p>MY GPA is a 3.50 for the first semester, but I don't think I tried hard enough... I didn't study very much and I really think I can do better this semester. I joined track and field as a sport for the spring and I'm planning on doing cross country next fall also. I want to go to yale, maybe Princeton or brown. And I'm willing to give everything I have to get there. Does anybody have any tips I should follow, any clubs I should join? (My school has a lot of clubs :P) Thanks!</p>
<p>Oh god no, i’m a freshman. I’ve just started my second semester in high school and I want to know what I should do in my next 3 and a half years to prepare myself for a good transcript and get into any ivy league school.</p>
<p>If you think that you have the potential to get a 3.8+ GPA in all honors/AP classes for the rest of high school while maintaining ECs and hobbies then go for it. If not, be realistic. You don’t want to spend the next 4 years doing clubs and activities you think ivies will love. Not only will it suck but admissions officers see right through that. Find something you’re passionate about and run with it. That’ll benefit you no matter where you apply and attend. </p>
<p>Just remember that even doing all of this, while getting a 2200+ SAT, still only puts you at a reach position. Read the decisions threads for ivies to understand this.</p>
<p>My kids’ high school (a private one) and I’ve heard it said at colleges like Pomona (very high brow) here in California that Ivies and other like schools could fill their entire freshman classes with all perfect SAT kids, all 4.0 plus kids, or valedictorians, etc. Indeed, they take a lot of those. However, they don’t want a freshman class full of just those kids. However, if you are a minority or an athlete, that helps. Very good #'s in most things, and a lot of EC’s (continuity and leadership in EC’s is vital, not just a big list of stuff that you are just nominally involved with or jumping from thing to thing), you’ll have some chance. As someone else wrote, still don’t count on it. Even legacies don’t always get in (recently had a Stanford friend not have his 4.0 daughter get into Stanford), have been told by parents who are really into all this that while, for example, Yale allegedly has a 7% or so acceptance rate , half of that is reserved for legacies. International students are also coveted.</p>
<p>Unfortunatly i’m only in 1 honors class right now (engineering) but i’m planning to move up in matg, science, english, and maybe world history… I think i have a lot of passion for many clubs at my school but I don’t currently have time for them, I think i’m going to take cross country instead of track and field next year so I can have more opportunities to take clubs.but getting a 3.8+ GPA shouldn’t be hard for me, I think i could get a 4.0 if I try hard enough. But overall I hope to get a good enough score on the SAT and ACT so that yale will accept me.</p>