<p>I'm in 9th grade and I want to go to any ivy league school. I'm asking for your opinions of what I need to do to get into an Ivy in my next three years at h.s. I took the old SAT at a john hopkins test, which I was invited to do, I got a score around 1150. My school does rank and I'm in the top 10% of my class of 300, and my gpa is 1 96 ish. </p>
<p>EC's
-1000+ hours of community service, I have helped out at PAL in my town for the last 4 or 5 years.
-Will be working this summer to pay for SSP next year...(hopefully, if it will help me with admissions at all)
-Possible internship at a lawyers office/ shadowing a lawyer
-Playing JV volleyball
-On matheletes team</p>
<p>I can't think of anything else but there's more.
ANY and ALL advice would be helpfull...
Thanks</p>
<p>There is no "Magical" formula, but all you can are to make sure you strive acadmically and score very high on the SAT and ACT (which ever one you perfer to take). You need to evaulate what you want to do when you get to college and plan according and show them what you want to do with your resume. That way, you can show dedication to what you want (ivy leauge like that) and try to shine when you are given the chance. Good luck</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your advice...anything else you suggest for me to do? I want to be a lawyer when i grow up, so anything else I should do for that? I forgot to mention that I went to Washington D.C. with People to People for a week, People to People was started by President Eisenhower, and just recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. For going i got 55 hours of social studies credit and 10 hours worth of community service. Thanks, and keep the replies coming in.</p>
<p>I have faith in you to strive acadmically. If I were you, I would plan way ahead, 4 years from now. There are alot of things you can plan for, but the most important is people relations. Plan out who is going to write you the recommendation letter , especially with you being in people to people, and build a very good long lasting relationship with them. Find those who know or are teaching at Harvard or had attend Harvard before. Those recommendations letters are the strongest, and they might even call up those who are on the admission committe and put in some good words for you. Also, show people who are writing you the recommendation letter and those people at Harvard your PASSION for wanting to go into law. Those are the things I can think of right now. Good luck</p>
<p>Thanks. The internship I'm trying to get is for a nearby lawyer who I believe/ I'm preddy sure that he graduated from harvard. He's a good family friend and would most likely write a good/ very good recomendation for me. There's also a judge who is another good freind( good thing my dad/family know A LOT of people in the field I want to go into), he (the judge) even invited me to sit up on the bench( I believe that's what it's called) with him, whenever I wanted to. Thanks again for all of your help.</p>
<p>lol, tht's not easy, since I'm a freshman and I can only work during the summer and only at $8/hour. Seriously though, is there any other way. I just want to talk to them, and see if I can get any suggestions from them. Any help would be appreciated.Thanks once again.</p>