School IVY league admissions

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<p>Hey everyone!</p>

<p>I am currently a grade 10 student in Ridley College, which is a Private school in Ontario, Canada.</p>

<p>My school introduced IB last year to grade 11's and 12's, and I will be going into IB next year.</p>

<p>Just before I ask my questions, take into account that I do not have much time, because school goes from 8am-4pm, then I have mandatory sports until 6, then study hall till 9:00pm. So I do not have much extra time. I also have school on Saturday from 8-3, and I volunteer at a hospital from 12-4 on sunday. Finally, I run a website design company, a forum of my own, and a social networking site that is dedicated to cars, so I also need to put time towards those.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.ridleycollege.com/ftpima...misc_99893.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.ridleycollege.com/ftpima...misc_99893.pdf&lt;/a>
Here is my school's IB book.</p>

<p>I plan on taking:</p>

<p>Spanish ab initio or SL (taken spanish in grade 10)
Economics HL
Chem HL
Bio SL or HL
English Sl or HL
Math SL (But I have done grade 11 math already, just don't need HL math)</p>

<p>In the future, I am 90% sure on going into Finance, specifically, Investment banking/Private Equity/Hedge Funds. I am still 10% thinking about Medicine, keeping my options open.</p>

<p>Here is my informal resume:</p>

<p>-Attending Ridley College (Private School)</p>

<p>-90% average in Ridley, 97% in public school after conversion (4.00 GPA)</p>

<p>-Sports (grade 9)- U16 Soccer, then Futsal (indoor soccer), then SFL Soccer.</p>

<p>-Sports (grade 10)- Rowing, then something else for the next 2 terms</p>

<p>-Black Belt in Karate</p>

<p>-Roma Travel Soccer Team (grade 8)</p>

<p>-Own a registered company in Canada, ComputifyIt Design. My company covers website design, computer repairs, and computer building.</p>

<p>-Own and have created many websites such as sahibrekhi.com (this one), uhhh54.com, computifyit.com, captify.org (in progress), and more.</p>

<p>-Taking a biostatistics university level course through edx Harvard</p>

<p>-Learn HTML, CSS, Javascript, MySQL, pHp, C++, and Objective-C (in future)</p>

<p>-Own a YouTube channel called Uhhh54, just hit 1 million views.</p>

<p>-Take Financial Modeling + Excel course from WallStreetPrep or competitors. (grade 10 summer, expected)</p>

<p>-Entering U of T Science Competition</p>

<p>-Strengths: Math, Science, Finance, Computer-Related Classes</p>

<p>-Ridley College Cadet Core: Green Star (Done), Red Star (Done), Silver Star (Done), Gold Star (expected)</p>

<p>-Duke Of Edinburgh Award: Bronze (Grade 9, Done), Silver (Grade 10, Done), Gold (grade 11, expected)</p>

<p>-Swimming (Lifeguard): Bronze Star (done), Bronze Medallion (done), Bronze Cross (doing), NLP (expected)</p>

<p>-Volunteer at SCG hospital (currently 80 hours total from grade 9-10, expected total 400 by graduation) (Info/ER)</p>

<p>-Going into International Baccalaureate for grade 11+12</p>

<p>-Graduate Ridley College (2015)</p>

<p>My question:</p>

<p>Which one would be better to take for ivy's: HL, Chem or Bio?
Thanks!</p>

<p>The schools I am looking to get into Harvard, Wharton, Yale, Princeton, Richard Ivey, Cornell, NYU Stern, or Columbia.</p>

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<p>They don’t care which one you take HL. They expect you to take the most rigorous level of coursework available at your school and to excel at it. Nothing more. </p>

<p>Your chances are first and foremost a function of your grades and test scores. In 10th grade, you probably don’t have enough info to chance yourself. To get a better idea of where you stand, you can look at the Common Data Set for each of these schools (google it) and go to Section C to compare yourself academically to the admitted students. Know that thousands of students with perfect grades and excellent text scores get turned down every year - which is where the ECs come in.</p>

<p>Given your techie and entrepreneurial interests, I’m surprised that Stanford isn’t at the top of your list. A better fit than many of the others on your list. They even have an e-dorm, an entreprenuer’s ‘incubator’ dorm to facilitate new businesses.</p>