<p>I'm a rising junior, just wondering what my chances might be at ivy league colleges/LACs and if I'm aiming too high.</p>
<p>I'm a white female, in Buffalo NY, taking the most rigorous course load my school (the highest ranked public high school in Western New York). it's an inner city school too, I don't know if that makes a difference or not.
*in my school we don't have honors courses, we have APs and IBs.</p>
<p>freshman year:
accelerated 1 year in all classes except science, where nobody is accelerated, and math, where I'm 2 years ahead. had straight A's.</p>
<p>sophomore year:
AP English: 3 on the exam, A+ in the course
AP European History: 4 on the exam, A in the course
Pre-IB Math (FST/Pre-Calc): A
Chemistry: B+ (I got straight As but the exam grade brought me down)
Spanish III (regents): A+
Chem Lab: A
studio art: A+</p>
<p>junior year, I will be taking:
IB Biology
IB English
IB Math Methods
Spanish IV, will be taking the AP exam on my own
AP US History
Psychology
Photography</p>
<p>senior year, I will be taking:
IB Biology
IB English (they are 2 year courses)
AP Calculus
IB Spanish
AP Government
Economics
and 1 or 2 more electives, I don't know what will be offered.</p>
<p>have not taken my SATs yet, but on my PSATs I recieved a 59 on writing skills, 60 on math, and a 63 on critical reading. I know they aren't good but I'm really working on them, and my estimate of my SAT scores would be 1900-2100.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
DECA - 9th grade, won at regionals and got a top 10 overall medal at states. unfortunately the program was cut. hopefully it'll be re-instated this year.
ski club (9-12).
Tennis lessons (fall & winter): 10-11.
Varsity Tennis team: 9-12, will be captain in 11th and 12th grade.
Helicon (school literary magazine): 10-12.
softball in a community league: 7-12.
volunteer at park festivals, the snack stand in the park, and various park clean-ups.
babysit.
had a job the summer before freshman year (worked in a kids tennis program at the city park), but that program was cancelled the year after I started working there (not using it as an excuse, just saying that I didn't quit or anything like that).</p>
<p>I'll probably have 1 or 2 more extracurriculars and many more community service hours by the time I apply, considering I'm not yet a junior. Next year, I'm going to at least keep volunteering at the parks, start to tutor kids in math, and join yearbook as well.
I don't know if this helps but I regularly donate to Goodwill and soup kitchens.
(I'll also most likely have excellent recs and great essays.)</p>
<p>awards so far:
spanish award (most proficient in spanish) - entering freshman year
principal's list (equivalent to honor roll) every semester so far (9th-10th)
scholar athlete - 9th & 10th
coach's award (sportsmanship) - 9th (in softball) & 10th (in tennis)</p>
<p>schools I'm looking at:
Brown (fell in love with it)
Colgate
Dartmouth
Princeton (maybe)
NYU (maybe)
Boston U
Cornell
Vassar
Union College (in schenectady)
Williams
Middlebury
Amherst
Villanova
(Ithaca College, SUNY Geneseo and St. Bonaventure are some of my safeties)</p>
<p>wondering if those sound good for somebody like me, assuming that I keep the grades up. I'm afraid I'm overrating myself and aiming too high.
I haven't visited many colleges yet either, so I'm open to suggestions. preferably colleges in the northeast and new england, I don't want to go too far from home.
thanks in advance for the help. :-)</p>