@ibstudentt - You won’t get into any of the Ivies this year with those stats. For the top Ivies, your SAT is likely lower than anyone in the entire class, including recruited football players, development cases, and URMs. Your predicted IB isn’t that great, and it’s only a prediction.
If you want to get into an Ivy, you will need to take a gap year and reapply. Do some or all these: something after graduation that makes you stand out from the crowd, get better than 37 on the IB, retake the SATs with the goal of improving to 2100+,and/or take the ACT and do equally well. If you’re a great soccer player, you should have previously contacted colleges so see if any would recruit you. You can still do that for next year, but it’s too late for this year.
You can also look at top CCs that take soccer seriously, and if you don’t need financial aid, there are, without doubt, hundreds of colleges in the USA that would love to have you and your money
Sorry to dissapoint you @mnm111, I had to send school reports dating back from 8th grade, as well as 2 teacher recommendations! You seem pretty angry, may I ask why? There is no need to be so aggressive! Moreover, you don’t think that they will care that an 18 year old was asked to appear on the nationally broadcasted finance program, as an analyst? Excuse me, but with all due respect, who are you?
@ibstudentt Sorry to disappoint, but I’m not angry. I’m just an experienced parent of college aged children.
Quite frankly, I find your notion that you are a serious Ivy league candidate quite amusing. You need to face the reality of the situation. Your grades and SAT scores are simply not in the range to get you into any of the top 50 schools in the US. The fact that you did not take the SAT seriously and did no preparation speaks volumes.
The knowledge is all there for you if you just do a little googling. Each of these colleges list their incoming student SAT information in the common data set information. You are well below the 25th percentile for all of these schools.
The SAT 25th percentile at Harvard last year was 2120. Do you comprehend how far away your SAT score is from these accepted students?
Take a year off and continue to solve the problems of the Danish stock market. Try some preparation for the SAT during that year. It’s very important. If you can raise your scores to a competitive level, you might stand a chance at acceptance if the rest of your application is strong.
Sorry @ ibstudent, but what everyone is saying is correct. You have no chance of any Ivies, your grades are ok, and your SAT score is terrible : ( I hope you have some kind of back up plan? Not meant to offend, you just need to be honest with yourself, and realize you are not getting in. Also, these schools all require 2 subject tests, and you made no mention of those? Did you take them? If so, what scores did you get? I have been told by more than one person, that if your application doesn’t meet the minimum requirement, they won’t even look at it. Your SAT scores would do that to you immediately.
@ibstudentt - You wrote “you don’t think that they will care that an 18 year old was asked to appear on the nationally broadcasted finance program”. Of course they would care, if you were a strong applicant. But they are academic institutions first and you’re not going to meet their minimum qualifications, so in your case, it’s not relevant.
If you read my earlier post, you can take a gap year, strengthen your application, and reapply next year. The first thing you’re going to need to do is ace your IB exams. Aim for 40 or above - while 37 is a good score, it’s not a great score, and won’t strengthen your applications. While you are preparing for your IBs, you should be contacting college soccer programs to see if you can get recruited as a soccer player - as a recruited athlete, your chances of acceptance at these colleges would be much higher. Finally, retake the SAT in June, and do well. If you can get 6s on Math SL and English (HL or SL), you should be able to do much better than 1600. Or better yet, take the ACT.
I think he should add in realistic choices just in case his SAT does not go up 700pts… Men’s college soccer teams tend to prefer foreign players so that could work in your favor. I would still add in realistic choices.
@mnm111, one last thing When looking at the data from Harvard, there are 1.34% accepted with GPA from 2.5-3.24. That is bad, right? How do you recon that they were accepted? High SAT scores? Athletes? And what about my chances at the non-ivy’s? I also applied to UChicago, Duke, WashU (St. Louis) and Johns Hopkins?
@ibstudent Recruited athlete, URM (black or Hispanic), socioeconomics, legacy, celebrity parents. Likely not you. Your chances are not good at any top college with your SATs.
If you have applied to a college and they do not want you SAT scores then you have a chance but NYU is difficult to get into and your SAT is well below their average.
@gearmom, OK, I get that my SAT score is low, but since you are experienced with college admissions, do I have a chance at getting into NYU with my IB score?
