My Chances at Any Ivy Leagues?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hey, I’m a high school junior trying to get into an Ivy League school. The closest ones to me are Yale and Harvard, I think,so those are the one’s I’d really like to go to. I want to major in Computer Science and then attend medical school. Here are my stats:

Grades:

Unweighted GPA (4.0 scale): 4.0
Weighted GPA (5.0 scale): 4.671
Class Rank: 1/(close to 100)

All AP and UConn ECE (Early College Experience Classes) I will have taken:
AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, AP Lit & Comp, AP Comp Sci Principles, UCONN ECE Chemistry, UCONN ECE Biology, UCONN ECE Physics, UCONN ECE English

Other special courses at my school:
Medical Terminology, Fundamentals of Nursing, Genetics, Anatomy & Physiology, Microbiology, Forensics

SAT:
1500 - 790 math and 710 english.
Should be getting a higher score on the next one, waiting on score.

Extra Curriculars:

UCONN Health Career Opportunity Programs: Jumpstart 9th and 10th, Junior and Senior Doctors Academy - Exposure to medical careers, college prep, sat prep, mentoring. Saturdays and 30 days in summer

UCONN High School Mini/Medical Dental School Program: 8 lectures by medical professionals to expose to careers in medical field

UCONN High School Student Research Apprentice Program: Summer research under a doctor, present infront of 200+ people at end

UCONN Husky for a Day: spent a day with a uconn honors student and followed them around to classes

Student Ambassador for my school - gave tours to families during open houses and hosted shadow opportunities for prospective students

Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship - 2nd place in business plan competition at my school, potential to move on to regional or national level competition

Biomedical Science Careers Program - Biennial science conference sponsored by Harvard Medical School for minorities interested in the medical field. Provides networking and informational opportunities

UCONN Bridge to the Future Science Mentoring Conference: Annual science conference sponsored by UCONN Health Center for minorities interested in medical field. Exposure to careers and opportunities

National Honors Society

Envirothon at my school - Environment and natural resource based education program.
Schools compete for the chance represent CT at the North American Envirothon.
Study Areas of Soils, Aquatics, Wildlife, Forestry and a Current Environmental Issue.

STEM Conference at my school: exposure to careers in STEM fields

Will have 2 job shadows in the medical field

Will be doing brain cancer research with 2 doctors, will be a part of senior capstone project, will also be tutoring kids in lower grades in science, not sure what grade level yet.

Other:
Race: Indian
Gender: Male
Hooks: First generation American, first generation college student, bilingual

I’m not sure where I stand compared to others. I would greatly appreciate it someone would be able to help me! I might have missed some things in extracurriculars. I am also going to be taking 2 college classes at the University of Hartford in my senior year.

Thanks!

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You are a competitive applicant. Your stats are good and your ECs are pretty decent. Write great essays and you could get accepted to any of these schools

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Yours stats are great but the one thing that jumps out at me is that your intended major is CS but you have nothing listed in your ECs that suggest any experience. If you look at the applications of CS majors it’s filled with proficiency in large numbers of programming languages, app design/creation, robotics, etc… CS is also one of the most competitive majors to gain acceptance. I would suggest talking to your guidance counselor. In my opinion you would be creating an unnecessary obstacle for yourself because of the disconnect.

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Good catch, @momofsenior1 . By the time I got through the activities, I thought this was a med wannabe.

For an Ivy, CS, CE, and engineering require math-sci ECs, including some collaborative. And even if your real goal is premed, you’d need less of the vocational type courses/ECs, programs/lectures exposing you to job opps, shadowing- and more of the people -oriented, in health delivery of some sort.

Take a better look at what it takes, what the colleges want. You may have time to fine tune a bit. But you have to know this is more than stats and a list of high school ECs. It all needs to make sense.

Btw, not sure why you wrote, “The closest ones to me are Yale and Harvard, I think…” If you’re in CT, Brown is also near. But you still need to know what they want to see.

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Also, noticed OP mentioned first generation student. If the parents graduated from/attended a foreign college, that may not count as first generation for US purposes.

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I think HYPMS turn away many a “perfect” applicant and can be quite difficult to feel solid about. My son had very similar stats…did a little better on SATs, had 35 ACT, 4.4 GPA, SAT math subject 800, 11 APs/ECE, Captain of track team, student govt , great recommendations and on and on…top choices MIT, Yale, Stanford and Brown all did not accept. Accepted at Dartmouth and Cornell and UCONN honors. Dartmouth and Cornell each had the lowest acceptance rates this year in the history of each school at 8 and 10% respectively. My advice would be to cast a wider net and apply to schools in and out of the Ivy league. UCONN has a BS/MD program that would be worth your looking at…and unless you and your family have no financial concerns…it is worth noting that UCONN would offer a merit scholarship to someone of your caliber.

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These are very good stats – but you’re still talking about schools with single digit acceptance rates. They are a reach for everyone, including you. Be sure to apply to match and safety schools. Good luck – with your stats and grades you will have some exciting options.

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Yes, stats are okay and EC’s are “driven” but the schools don’t want burn out.
You don’t have anything that looks like you enjoy high school and have taken advantage of your high school activities and committees.

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@Sweff12

First gen college student is a hook, but first gen American and being bilingual are not.