<p>Harvard, Yale and Princeton : No garantee even if you get above SAT 2350 and are national awards winner and get amazing IB score (42 or plus) or AP score, the admission decision is quite random. Yale this year deferred 4 out of 5 applicants who have 2300 above SAt score and same goes towards Harvard. But overall, most acceptees have SAT I scores above 2330, many awards,some kind of speical talent, stellar essays and solid school mark> meaning straight A's and extremely rigorous course loads. Also, it would be better if you try to avoid conflicts by steering away from applying with others in your school for the same university. That dramaticallly decreases your chance.Also, many with 2400 still get deferred ED for some wierd reasons since naturally, those people are not nerds and generally have some kind of solid Extracurriculuar activies and stellar teacher's recommendation. So random here means in a very specific way. In plain words, few with less than amazing chances ever get into those universities, but lots with amazingly talented individuals got rejected every year since because they are basically competiting with others of the same stats, and so, those 2300's SAt scores and 1/1000 ranking no long matters. It all comes down to whether or not the universities can actually perceive potential in you , whether or not they are in a good mood, or even maybe they can only accept 1 -2 in whole city or even region and thus a limited quota makes their decision extremely difficult. </p>
<p>Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, U-Penn and Columbia:</p>
<p>As for these ivies, I think anything above 2150 and IB score around 40 are sufficient, the rest just depends on luck. I see some people who get 1950 getting into Wharton in U-penn, and people who get 2300 and above still got deferred by Cornell and Dartmouth. Basically, maybe some mistakes in your application info, or a boring essay will shift the decision from " accepted " to "deferred" and worse yet to " rejected." but unlike the first tier of ivy, these 5 rarely if ever reject applicants directly with excellent GPA and SAT. But, they do have a quota for acceptee from every region as a friend's interviewer revealed. In other words, they want to achieve a find balance of diversity and ratio of guys and girls, Asians and Caucasians.Randomness plays a smaller factor in those university's applications than those of Harvard, Yale and Princeton. </p>
<p>Chicago, Northwestern, John Hopkins, Duke, Washington and oops forgot all the University of California schools ( including the famous Berkely and Stanford!!)
Basically, those excellent universities are not need-blind to international students. So if you are rich and can afford 40000 dolllars for the next 4 years, definately should apply and the chance for a decent applicant to get in is huge since you are not put into a fishing pool of international students ( well, this saying definatley doesn't apply to Stanford)</p>
<p>The advantage of going to Ivy League~Haha trying to get more people to apply to Ivies!</p>
<p>1) make graduation school application easier I guess to other Ivies. So very important to highly motivated individuals pursuing law school, MBA and Medical school. If you look at Yale Law school Admission statistics, basically half or even 60& of the 280 aceptees each year are from the 8 ivy leagues school with Yale getting the biggest share and Harvard the next and all other ivies equally getting a fair share of acceptees. Then, the rest 15-20% is divided between Stanford, Berkely and Chicago mostly. So that's like 75% gone. The rest 20%-25% the quota of 60 or so spots are shared between 50 or so universities AROUND the world (also those in Canada), so basically University of Michigan will at best be able to send 2 to Yale Law and McGill every year probably 0-1 in comparison to Yale Undergraduate which can yearly send up to 50 to its master degree. So basically, top 10% in any ivy leage school can garantee you the spot in top 10 most prestigious master program in the nation. Any top 1% in any ivy can probably allow you to secure the spot in 3 most prestigious master program. No doubt, it is a very biased, unfair, elitist system, but that's how it works apparently since they are more willing to deal with students whose education was conducted in a similar method as theirs.</p>
<p>2) attend the special ivy sport events- intercollegiate sports, so U-penn and Brown hockey game and such</p>
<p>3) good alumni resources and exclusive Clubs in every corner of the world ( maybe not in Amazon jungle, I guess) and thoe clubs are sometimes only open to visiting members from other ivies and standford of course. ( well, someone told me this) </p>
<p>4) Filthly rich endowned university especially Harvard, Princeton and Yale so excellent faculty and facility. In general, many 25 students classes and seminars. They make sure that you garantee.~ </p>
<p>5) Ivy league is composed of 8 schools, so lots of opportunity for interaction with other scools in the league</p>
<p>6) excellent calibre of students just make you more motivated push your limit further</p>
<p>7) Your child automatically becomes a legacy haha make life easier for them</p>