On track for Princeton and other Ivies?

Colleges & Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>Stats
-4.0 unweighted gpa
-33 ACT
-2220 SAT
-97 NYS Trig Regents (all regents are out of 100)
-97 NYS Bio Regents
-98 NYS Earth Science Regents
-95 NYS Geometry Regents
-rank 1 (but only out of 35)
-I'm graduating high school in three years instead of 4</p>

<p>ECs
-Senior band flutist
-Jazz band saxophonist
-varsity ski team (since 7th grade)
-varsity tennis team (since 8th grade)
-treasurer of science club
-national honor society
-event coordinator for my class
-student council representative
-vice president of local interact rotary club
-Junior Olympian and nationally ranked for freestyle mogul skiing singles and duels</p>

<p>Community service
-Family severely affected by Hurricane Irene, my town was absolutely destroyed, over 250 volunteer hours cleaning up the town after the storm.
-Math and science tutoring for both young students and peers.
-~100 other hours</p>

<p>Other
-Kopernik astronomy camp on string theory.
-I co-own a business which involves many hours of making the product (fudge), selling it and traveling to fairs. I also work on weekends at a small gourmet store/cafe.
-Will have AP US History, AP English Lit, AP Calc, AP Physics (that is all my school offers)
college course in government (freshman year), college course in economics (freshman year), 5 years of Spanish (2 years college level), college course in statistics
-I live in an incredibly rural part of New York in the Catskills, I don't think anyone from my school has gone to Princeton or any ivy except Cornell (and that only happens once ever 8 years or so).
-I'm a white female and my family makes under $40k a year</p>

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<p>I don’t see how you couldn’t get into at least 1 ivy especially with that skiing hook. Good luck</p>

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<p>You’re on track, don’t worry. You need to get your subject tests done (for Princeton it’s any two unless you’re applying for engineering, then it’s a math subject test (I or II) and one science subject test (Bio, Chem, and Phys)</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>Incredible story! Just keep a few safeties in the mix and you will be fine.</p>

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<p>Great stats! You’re on track for the ivies, just take the SAT subject tests and do well on those and you’ll be a very competitive applicant.</p>

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<p>Bump10char</p>

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<p>SAT score could be higher</p>

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<p>Very good scores and test scores. ECs are also great especially the business. Because so many good applicants apply to Ivies they’re of course going to be reaches but you definitely have a shot!</p>

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<p>Check out schools with ski teams! Middlebury?</p>

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<p>Bump, ok latest college list:
-Dartmouth
-MIT
-Princeton
-Barnard
-Wesleyan
-Alfred university
-Boston university
-Hamilton university</p>

<p>What do you guys think? Any other college suggestions? What are my chances?</p>

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<p>You have good hooks, just apply to all the best colleges to max. your chances. You’re missing several top schools, specifically Stanford/Harvard/UChicago/Columbia?</p>

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<p>^^ Yale for that matter.</p>

<p>Would definitely look at Williams and Amherst too since you should get into your safeties without a problem, you have nothing to lose by applying. Both are really great schools with very involved faculty. Lots of scholar athletes like yourself.</p>

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<p>never underestimate the essays, and good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks… Bump</p>

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<p>Where’s Penn? </p>

<p>You have a good list. What do you plan to study? You seem very eager to enter a top school. Good luck.</p>

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<p>And nothing is guaranteed obviously but you are obviously an outstanding student and will do well in life if you keep going at the pace you are going.</p>