This is purely hypothetical. In this forum, create a student who you think would be the perfect student to get accepted into majority of the ivies.
Use this template:
Achievements:
Extracurriculars
Subjects (if AP give subject, score and grade completed
Summer activities:
SAT score
SAT subjects and scores:
Really?
But these schools aren’t made up of one type of student! They spend a lot of time and money getting a variety of students. SAT scores of student who actually get accepted are already available. Maybe this is a better ‘fun’ topic for the Cafe, but it doesn’t belong in Admissions to avoid misleading people that there exists such a thing as just one type of candidate or especially not to make student think there is an ideal.
This post can be re-titled: “What’s the formula for getting into an Ivy school”
Sorry but this archetype doesn’t exist beyond academic excellence.
Agreed, there is no formula. Academic strength (HS transcript and standardized tests) is a given as a requirement. Other than that I’ve heard admissions reps say many times that they want to bring in a well rounded class,…that does not mean that each student must be well rounded. Each school will take legacy students, athletes, musicians, researchers etc. and as well as well-rounded students…
The formula is really quite simple. Excellent grades with a rigorous course load, good test scores, and recruitable athletic talent.
No sense in playing this game, but you neglected “hooks,” and in universities with 5 to 12 percent acceptance rates, they can be important (assuming the critical fundamentals – GPA, curricular rigor, standardized test results, and so forth – meet the Ivies difficult standards).
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My ideal student would be Jesus, only because he might have been an URM, Mary and Joseph never went to university, and people earned a lot less in the first century BCE.
On a more serious note, I don’t see the point of filling out OP’s description in any more detail than what countless of admissions officers and counselors have already described in the past. Rigorous courses, high testing, etc. There’s an infinite number of possible combinations of these hypothetical stats that will get someone into an Ivy, just as there’s an infinite variety of stats that have gotten or will get an actual student accepted.
Stats also don’t take into consideration the quality of an applicant’s essay/character, which could vary for individual school supplements, or even sheer luck.
Ideal student did not spend high school doing things with the express purpose of getting into the Ivy League.
Since there is no danger that further comments will add significantly to the conversation, I think this is a good time to close this.