<p>Im rising junior and i go to private college preparatory school
I wanna know what I have to work on in order to get into ivy
I personally wanna get into brown,cornell or u.penn (im international student)</p>
<p>my profile is:
SAT: currently 2100 (I can improve this)
GPA:4.2 (our school doesn't have class rank) dean's high list every term</p>
<p>extra curricular: orchestra(cello), choral, swimming/lacrosse, medical club, science research,environment club, french club,school newspaper, stage crew, community service commitee,RA, internatinal club, ....etc (executive of 4 activities)</p>
<p>I love volunteering so I have volunteered in Lehigh hospital 2 years, went volunteering in Vietnam (ppl suffering from Vietnam war due to defoliant)for 1 month by myself(not with organization), teach english to in three organization in korea, ..etc (next year im gonna volunteer in AID center in Vietnam)</p>
<p>I have also completed my 3 weeks of internship at university this summer(researching on bio diagnostic chip)</p>
<p>please give me advice !!:)I really wanna get into IVY lol
Thank you>,<</p>
<p>OP, the area you need to work on the most before the application time comes is your ecs. Ivies look for students with leadership, passion, deligence, as reflected through ecs. They don't want to see scattered, laundry list of ecs without particular leadership positions or expertise. Other than that, improve your SATs slightly and I would say you would stand a decent chance.</p>
<p>Well, OP, you are an executive for four of the activities, nothing to sneeze about. I think the whole "colleges want to see passion, not a laundry list" is generally true, but let's define a laundry list. A laundry list in this case is when you join a bunch of clubs, not because you like them, but because you think it will impress colleges. Now, if you enjoyed everything you did and you were very involved in what you did, that would not be a laundry list. Many people, it seems, just see a big list of extracurricular activities and automatically think, too many activities, not enough 'passion.' By the way, the notion that you've got to be very passionate about something is just ridiculous. The word 'passion' itself has been so overused that it's more like a buzzword--whenever you think of EC's, you think of the word 'passion.' The idea is that whatever you do, you should be very involved in them and really enjoy them. Finally, leadership isn't absolutely necessary, but leaders tend to have more motivation, charisma, and interpersonal skills than members do, because they're so involved in it. But you don't have to be a leader, just involved.</p>
<p>middsmith: It's not like top LAC's are much easier to get into than the Ivies. One of my friends got into Yale but not Swarthmore. Another one got rejected from Stanford and Swarthmore but got into Columbia.</p>
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you have typical ecs so nothing to distinguish you from rest.
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<p>you have to be kidding. this kid went to Vietnam, Korea, had an internship, volunteered at hospital, 4 executive positions, participates in sports, music, and has a decent SAT score for Ivys (says he will do better) and a nice GPA. </p>
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Slim chance. I had slightly better stats, similar ECs but was shut out.
Maybe you'd have better luck at top LACs.
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<p>far from a slim chance. you are competitive for Ivys. if you get your scores up you will be even more competitive. however, you haven't said any kind of courses you've taken (AP, honors, IB) and any estimate of class rank. everyone is so harsh on CC. i would suggest other schools to look at other than Ivys though.</p>
<p>I would say OP's relatively competitive. The scores aren't high enough, but the community service seems to be genuine. Cornell is definitely within reach; Brown and UPenn less so.</p>
<p>@Akittka: I might have come across as a bit harsh or brusque because I was submitting the post from my phone, lol.
Still, I stand by my opinion that an SAT score of 2100 is not enough. It places you in the top 15k or so people, but that doesn't help much for an ivy.
As for ECs, I missed the executives part, so my bad for that. That makes a huge difference in my perception of the candidate. Before, I saw a list of typical ECs, except for the biotech thing. Now, I see some initiative and "passion" and such. Still, I assumed the OP was Korean, so going to korea isn't super impressive. It is my opinion that traveling doesn't impress colleges as much as it might have a few decades ago. In light of this new information though, I think your ECs are strong, so SAT is only weak aspect.</p>
<p>yeah i agree. 2100 is nothing to sit back and relax about, but there are kids who are accepted with 2100s and lower to Ivys. but yeah.. SAT is definitely the weak spot.</p>
<p>id say u have a chance...not a great chance (lets face it, no one has a good chance when it comes to ivies), but a chance. ur ECs r great (ignore what someone said about how ur ECs r normal...-.-;; ), but u should raise ur SAT scores up. but mebbe dis will make u feel better: my friend had a 2090 on SATs and got into harvard. no joke ;)</p>
<p>The only people who complain about SAT scores that are < 2400 but >2000 are the people who either don't have enough ECs, no leadership positions, have a bland personality, or obviously lack a quality that a college would want.</p>
<p>From what I see, this kid has a really good chance. And so does anyone else with a 2000+ and his type of ECs.
God, seriously people, stop being such queens about SAT scores.</p>
<p>@ zester: Have you seen the median scores for SATs for ivies? It <em>is</em> a factor. Sure, there are outliers, but there is a reason why the medians are so high. While there is no "cutoff" SAT score for eligibility (unless an athlete, technically), it is a big part of the application and since the OP hasn't cured cancer, he or she needs to be aware that the SAT score will play a role in admission.</p>