<p>i was wondering what you guys thought about ivy leagues. what is the single most important thing i would have to do to get into an ivy league?????
thanx...bri</p>
<p>nothing. That single element does not exist.</p>
<p>well, okay, maybe i just worded it wrong. what do you think is ONE OF the most important?</p>
<p>Daddy owns the school. That is possibly the only guarantee.</p>
<p>Seriouslly, there is not "there" there....</p>
<p>Daddy was the former president of the United States...</p>
<p>Anyone of these</p>
<ol>
<li>You got perfect SATs, 800's on 5 SAT II's, 4.0 U.W., but you're blind.</li>
<li>Parents donate couple million annually to the school.</li>
<li>7th time generation, where two of your relatives are adcoms.</li>
<li>You are God.</li>
</ol>
<p>Notice the sarcasm in people's replies? I'm serious, nothing, not even anything "one of the most important" exists, because there is no formula that can be said to be better than another.</p>
<p>parents being adcoms doesnt even guarentee anything.
even with perfect SATs and a high gpa</p>
<p>seriously, im tempted to say admissions is done by drawing names out of a hat.</p>
<p>well if you can prove you saved the world, then I'm pretty sure they'd take you ;)</p>
<p>a defining characteristic that 0.1% of everyone has.</p>
<p>includes: owning a business, a non-profit, or winning some world championship in sports.</p>
<p>Just get the grades and do something you enjoy for EC</p>
<p>Then apply to every Ivy and hope for the best.</p>
<p>please close this thread, stop the stupidity</p>
<p>i would say the most important thing with ivies and many other top schools such as duke/stanford/mit/rice/jhu/nu are essays. people on this website seem to mark the essays as seemingly unimportant but when asking college adcoms, usually essays are what they say "set u apart from everyone else on paper." concentrate on ur essays. edit many times - ask ur teachers/friends/parents to read them over. essays = #1</p>
<p>I think essays and extra co is VERY important.</p>
<p>Essay = outstanding</p>
<p>extra co = you need to have done something AMAZING! Like, created your own foundation. Like say you are the founder and president of the 'Kids Doing Stuff' club/foundation. Or you are leadership position in a lot of things.</p>
<p>LOL Anyone watch king of the hill? Remember when Con Jr. wanted to be on the wrestling match . The dad said no, but the mom was like (in her very 'fob' voice) "Sure, Connie is numbah wun in her class, and win national award for violin and cahmunnity service, but what set her apawt?" LOL!</p>
<p>I remember someone said this in another thread. Is there anything in your app that makes them want to snatch you up? </p>
<p>Anything that makes them say, "Gee, I sure wouldn't want that kid to end up at Yale instead of Harvard." ;)</p>
<p>Oh yeah, that's real helpful. Because we know exactly what they want! v_v</p>
<p>I think what I said could get you really far. Also, great academic stuff (GPA, SATs, etc) wouldn't hurt a single bit. You don't have to be perfect, just very active and have a lot of personality. Be interesting.</p>
<p>cool, thanx for that last comment. gives me some sort of hope. lol</p>