@MYOS1634 From my own prespective, the most important(probably only) reason for myself to attend school in US is to abridge transportation costs generated during travelling.
Can you rephrase what you’re saying in #21?
@MYOS1634 I can’t think of anything more than saving me a few bucks when I am travelling is for my own benefits if I go to the US.
19: what you listed counts as EC's, but not what universities in the Top25 want to see - what they mean by ECs is "made an impact" or "broke a state record" or "was a soloist in an adult orchestra", etc.
Your EC’s are good for most state universities. You could probably get into UCSC, UMN-Twin Cities, UMass Amherst, UDel, URI, UMaine Farmington, Penn State, Pitt, Temple, tOsu, Miami-Ohio, UMaryland, UNC-Ch, UNC-W, NCSU…
If you want a US university that’s close to the US, there’s St Lawrence. The city closest to them is Montreal. 
There’s also Burlington, which has two excellent universities, St Michael’s (private) and UVermont (public).
@MYOS1634 I should probably stick with my local school then. Ranked 2nd in Canada. Only thing they care is mark and money.
good idea. do what works best, not something other people want, but don’t really know why! good luck!
@HRSMom Thanks.
If you want to go to Harvard there has to be a reason why you are there. It may or may not be some EC. If you dad is worth 2 billion dollars that is a good reason for H to consider you. If you are a double legacy that is important. If you are a member of the Kennedy family or your dad is president of China H will want you. If you lived in a car all through high school and still had a 4.0 H will want you with or without ECs. If you are an academic super star that is important(about 5 to 10 per cent of the kids get in for that reason sometimes without any ECs unless you consider taking graduate level courses at the local university while in HS an EC ) I don’t see anything in your description that indicates why H or any ivy would offer you admission. Best of luck to you.
@tiger1307 I do take some third year college courses.
Well, if you’re taking 3rd-year college courses, that matters, yes!
In what subject(s)?
@MYOS1634 Complex Analysis, Abstract Algebra, Haitian Revolution, etc.
Never at an official school. I self studied 3 APs.
You MUST take those classes at an official university for them to “count” though.
Are you a Junior or a Senior?
@MYOS1634 Junior. As I (almost) took every AP at my school already. I will take some courses at an official univ next year. I am also hoping to improve my SAT to 2350 though.
My HS is crappy. They hate untraditional students. They don’t want you to do anytthing challenging and discourages self study very much.
DO NOT graduate from high school- you need to “dual enroll”. Can you do that in the Spring?
But please understand that the “everything but the kitchen sink” approach to APs is actually counterproductive. You run the risk of looking like you learn to impress colleges, which is the opposite of what you want to convey - you want to convey love of learning and passion for one subject. And to do that, you need to show you push yourself in that subject, for instance taking college classes, assisting a professor at the college or university nearby, all while taking a variety of other classes just because you find it fun to learn or because you understand you need to have a solid, well-rounded academic base. And you need a variety of EC’s that indicate you’re not a robot… what do you do for fun?
Several very good colleges have a reputation for being very eager to take people with very high grades/scores, regardless of other qualifications, because they are trying to work the rankings and improve their 25/75 statistics.
Fair or not, names I have seen bandied about include Wash U., Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Cornell, Emory, and Wake Forest. For liberal arts colleges I have seen Claremont McKenna, Colgate, W&L.
I have no idea (or way to prove) whether this is correct. Just throwing it out there.
@MYOS1634 I won’t graduate. I don’t even have my final required English. I read history, politics and travel for fun and usually I do this for several hours a day… Sometimes I game but not more than an hour per day.
I like everything and I am passionate about every subject from art to history, from geography to physics.
My school doesn’t allow ANYONE to dual enroll unless they are senior.
Unfortunately for you THE IVIES are interested in people who are “saving the environment, singing, playing music instruments.”
Ok that’s good. So, at college/universty next semester, can you take a sophomore-level history class, a freshman-level international relations class, a Cultural Geography class, plus Complex Analysis and/or Abstract Algebra? Would you be able to do that?
Then create a blog about travelling. Or a youtube channel. Find an angle.
Or just post your travel reading notes, with pictures.
Or use your math skills for sports stats and calculate stuff each week for fans, or perhaps for various college teams (including Harvard’s).
Remember that to be read you need to post frequently.
Vanderbilt and Wash U St Louis are two really high ranked universities that will like your high scores. Can you see yourself going there?
@MYOS1634 I write on FlyerTalk occationally. I should be able to take sophomore-level history, doing freshman-level international relations AP now, my school has cultural geo AP, but I believe my school will put me in Linear Algebra at best(which I already learned on myself) Thanks a lot for your help.
Just to be clear, I mean COLLEGE sophomore history, college freshman IR, etc.