I am currently a junior at PPCHS, a high school in suburban South Florida in the class of 2019. I have a few questions regarding my specific case. My school offers Aice classes, which are not administered by collegeboard, but by Cambridge university. They stand on the 6 point scale, just as AP classes do, but have a general rep of not be as hard as most AP classes, but harder than Honors. As this is so, I have been told by many friends that my GPA is inflated. I will end junior year with about a 3.7 unweighted GPA and a 5.1 weighted GPA. I have gotten 6Bs, 5 B+s, and 1 C+( AP cal ) for my semester grades that were not As. I will end Junior year with 5 Aice and 5 AP courses. My question is what do you think my chances are for getting into UPenn ED and other Ivys with these stats? I am in the top 6% of my class. I got a 1430 on my first SAT attempt and plan on taking it twice more. I also founded the Model UN club at my school and am the Debate team captain. I have been recognized nationally for Debate, but I am not sure that my extra circulars can outweigh the mistakes I have made in the sphere of grades. Please be brutally honest as I don’t want to build emotional ties to schools I know I probably will not get into. schools I want to apply to ( there are a lot): harvard, yale, columbia, U Penn, Georgetown, Chicago, Stanford, Cornell ( my sis goes to cornell atm) Duke, Princeton, UC Berk, UCLA, Brown, Vanderbilt, NorthWestern, Boston College, Chapel Hill, U Miami, UF, UCF.
Nothing “weird” about your high school. Lots in Florida have AICE programs, and they are comparable to IB programs. Colleges view them as being “rigorous”, as rigorous as IB or AP.
What colleges care about, is that you took the most rigorous classes offered at YOUR school. In general, if a school has an IB or AICE program, that’s viewed as the most rigorous option. I wouldn’t worry about rigor.
Most of those schools on your list are super selective It’s going to come down to your GPA, test scores, non-academic factors (ECs, volunteering, etc), class rank, and luck.
Good Luck!