Hey guys I’m about to be a sophomore but just wanted to know how good my chances for an Ivy league school or Wharton are so far after my freshman year. Also, I wanted to ask which ivy school has the best social life outside of academics (most fun, you know?). Also, how many AP’s should I take?
Personal Information:
Race: Brown (Indian)
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Indian
Graduation Year: 2020
Income: upper middle
Intended majors: business or finance or computer science
Academics:
Unweighted GPA: 3.99/4.0
1 AP class : 5 (AP Human Geo)
Rank : 5/450
SAT Score : 1450/1600
Senior courses:
ECs:
National level Cricket player (played in national tournament, team 2nd in the nation)
Tennis varsity (Team captain, 3rd place in regionals, state alternate doubles)
Editor for international magazine (Polyphony H.S, also have poem published there)
Academic Decathlon (1st at regionals, 2nd in state, but placed 1st in 6 out of 10 events)
DECA (Vice President, State qualifier)
Internship at a local business (Technology company)
Volunteer :
Helped open Leadership academy in the area, almost 200 hours worth of hours in volunteering)
CHANCE ME PLEASE!!! I want to know how to plan these upcoming years.
It is way too early to think about specific colleges (especially the hyper-competitive ones). It is good to take school seriously and know that college will be on your horizon, but it is too early to start planning for specific colleges. I would highly recommend that you get off of CC until your junior year.
For now you should focus on:
–Working hard, learning, and doing as well as you can in the most challenging curriculum you can manage. There is no set number of APs but you want your guidance counselor to be able to check the box saying you have taken the most rigorous curriculum available at your HS (which is not the same as maxing out on APs) so speak to him/her about this as you plan your schedule.
–Study for standardized tests and try to improve on your score.
–Continue your involvement in activities you care about and work towards making meaningful contributions to those activities.
–Enjoying spending time with your family and friends.
When the time comes asses your academic stats (including GPA, standardized tests, course rigor) as well as your financial needs and apply to a wide range of reach, match, and safety schools that appear affordable (you will have to run a net price calculator for each school you consider) and that you would be happy to attend. You need to expand your horizons and recognize that there are many wonderful schools out there where you can have a great 4 year experience and get where you want to go in life.
Only two of the Ivy League universities offer an undergraduate major in business: Penn (Wharton is Penn’s business school) and Cornell. The other Ivies offer degrees in economics, but not in business.
If you want to major in business, then you should certainly consider the highly ranked programs at such non-Ivy schools as MIT, UC-Berkeley, Michigan, NYU, Carnegie Mellon, UT-Austin, Notre Dame, Emory, etc.
If you are able to raise your SAT score to 1500+ and to maintain your high GPA and class ranking over the next two years, you should be a competitive candidate at many of the top schools in the US.
You would get much more out of this forum by asking “what college do you recommend” instead of “what are my chances at Ivy league”. When someone asks about the Ivy league, it shows they don’t know much about any of the schools in the Ivy league (they can be very different from each other). So go ahead and post your stats and interests and see what comes of it, you might actually find a college you fit into and it may even be in the Ivy league.