<p>Could anyone help me and give some chances answers? I am currently wanting to pursue an education at an ivy league institution. I plan on fully utilizing the campus activities by joining and improving clubs greatly. And I intend to start an creativity and education club that would last years and improve the campus. Just wondering what Ivy I could get into. Do i have any chance? thanks…</p>
<p>I need financially aid, but after doing the calculator I would be able to pay $20,000 per year.</p>
<p>1/4 URM-I volunteered on my reservation for a summer building fences with intention to join Native American club.</p>
<p>Academic:
--I have a 3.8 GPA with an upward trend since freshman year
-------Note: dip in GPA was from traumatic family incident.----------
--34 ACT
--2250 SAT
--Fluent in written Chinese, Spanish, Swahili, written Hindi, and American Sign Language and Braille
--multiple AP classes including: US history-Physics-Biology-Spanish (all 4's and 5's)
--all Honors courses
--Community College courses with college credit (4.0 GPA)
--2 time Student of Month</p>
<p>School EC:
--Student government leader
--Future Problem solver participant
--Model UN outstanding delegate
--Founder of a school Investment Club
--Matheltes Team Leader
--Battle of Books District Champion- Team</p>
<p>Sports:
--Shooting State Champion & Varsity shooting team captain
--All State shooting team
--Varsity golfing team co-captain
--Multiple dedication awards.</p>
<p>Other program:
--selective Leadership program graduate
--Young Eagles pilot graduate
--Young Pilot Oshkosh top grad.</p>
<p>EC:
--licensed private pilot with 300+ logged hours
--Karate-Red Belt (one from black)
--Manage own stock portfolio. Yearly Return is about 30.24% since 2012
--Kung Fu brown belt (two from black at my studio)
--Boy Scouts (Life Scout)
--Expert beekeeper
--Have an education app on the Apple App Store.</p>
<p>Volunteer:
--on track for Silver Cord
--founder of a Charity that provide weekend meals to underprivileged MS and HS students.
--volunteer academic tutor
--Volunteered at Tumaini school in Tanzania one summer.
--Hospital volunteer to help hearing-impaired people communicate</p>
<p>If you got this far, sorry for the long post, but any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>@mishpish - I intended to reply on your other chance thread but I might as well apply here. You asked about Harvard and Princeton. I would think you would have good to excellent chances at both as long as you can convey your impressive qualifications effectively within the rigid framework of the Common App. The supplemental essays could be your chance to shine.</p>
<p>As far as the other Ivy schools go- you will have chances at all you apply to, but why just the Ivies? There is a lot of variation between them (Columbia and Dartmouth, for example, are hugely different), and there are plenty of other selective colleges outside the Ivy League that are also worth investigating. If you find Harvard and Princeton interesting (hopefully for reasons other than their ranking) you might also like Duke, Northwestern, Stanford, or Rice.</p>
<p>As far as I can tell, often what schools (especially Ivies) are looking for is not a well-rounded student but a well-rounded student body. They want their individuals to have their own passions that will contribute to the overall diversity and achievement of the university. Because you have such (almost unbelievable) amazing and varied talents, as well as proven success and self-discipline, I’d say if nothing else you can consider yourself a very viable candidate in the crapshoot that is the application process. </p>
<p>Overall your standardized test scores are solid. GPA seems fine. Dual enrollment, along with AP classes is impressive. Of your ECs, the most interesting one that caught my attention was being a licensed pilot and beekeeping. The rest of your ECs are a mish-mosh of eclectic interests. It is difficult to see what is your true passion based upon the list above. </p>
<p>A large part of whether you get in or not will depend upon how you position yourself. Try to pick a unique angle from all of the varied interests listed above and make a cohesive argument. You’ve got the skeletons of a successful candidate, but you need to put it all together.</p>
<p>Stats are solid. I agree with the previous response. You need to show clearly what exactly your interests are. Languages are impressive, ECs are impressive. Remember you can only include 5 broad categories of ECs in the Common App. You can write something like “Music: Blah Orchestra, Blah Ensemble, Flute, Violin, etc.” but they all have to fit within one of your categories. Good luck!</p>
<p>This is one of the best resumes that I have seen, however, there are some parts that shouldn’t be included. Mostly the trivial activities. Also, are you sure that all of the stuff that happened during high school? Some of the stuff like battle of the books occur during middle school…</p>
<p>@Hawkace thanks for the comment, We had a battle of the books in High school here… should i not include it? Do you think I have any shot at an Ivy…</p>