<p>I wish we could all get into our dream schools. :/</p>
<p>…of course then there’d be an overabundance of kids at every Ivy… Especially HYP.</p>
<p>Columbia. 10char</p>
<p>I hope you all get admission into your dream school(s)! 
Keep the posts coming!</p>
<p>^THIS.</p>
<p>Especially those who’ve worked their butts off during high school…</p>
<p>Penn State/ Jefferson B/MD program…what I would give to get into that…</p>
<p>@Lesly if you truly worked your butt off you shouldn’t have a problem getting accepted to a top school. :)</p>
<p>@Draxula My freshman year is killing my rank/overall grade… =/ So I’m not so sure…</p>
<p>@Lesley, same. 
Wishes to the ones who have been trying hard this year to make a difference!</p>
<p>Tufts. But I got rejected ED, so…</p>
<p>@draxula are you serious? You are saying that someone who works their but off in school will have “no problem” getting into schools likeHYP? All schools of this caliber are reaches for EVERYONE, except maybe those with 4.0, 2400 SAT, and A parent who is director of admissions. It is of course possible to get into any school, but working hard does not make you a shoe-in. MIT is my dream school btw:)</p>
<p>@Sombeo I meant if they tried hard AND excelled in school they would have a good chance to get into a school like HYP. I hope you get accepted to your dream school! :)</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins. (One of the many)</p>
<p>you can work hard and excel all you want. if you’re unlucky, you don’t get in. plain and simple. there is no such thing as a “shoo in” to a top school in this day and age. </p>
<p>I have a friend who was nominated for the presidential scholars program. that makes him one of the 3,000 best kids in the whole country (it’s not something you sign up for, so he really is competing against everybody, including you and me). kid got a 2400 sat on his first try, took 3 subject tests and got 800 in all of them. full IB diploma candidate taking the hardest classes available in the world. took ap tests despite not being in ap classes in calc bc, physics, and chem. got 5 on all of them. went to internships at big laboratories for the past few summers. he is super passionate about math and science, and it shows. on top of that, he is a district-level swimmer (i.e. at a higher level of athletics than the d3 schools he wants to attend). </p>
<p>this kid, who lives and breathes math/sci, got deferred from both MIT and caltech. now tell me, what could he have done to improve his application, short of winning a nobel prize? all I can think of is USAMO, but he didn’t know about that until his senior year. and you can preach to me about balance all you want: MIT and Caltech don’t want balance, they want the best. he is the best, and he still didn’t make the cut. </p>
<p>as for ivies/stanford/etc, those guys are so unpredictable that all manner of 2400 sat valedictorians get rejected.</p>
<p>I know it honestly pretty stupid. There is this stereotype that all 2300+ val. have no personality and just robotically ace their tests, etc… Not true.</p>
<p>Columbia
John Hopkins</p>
<p>But heck, I wouldn’t be able to go there (EVEN IF I DO -which I won’t- GET ACCEPTED) considering how much it costs.</p>
<p>UC berkeley(reach)- because my sister went there.
Brown (long shot)- i like it because of the open curriculum.</p>
<p>Brown University
John Hopkins University
Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>Northwestern <- Attending
Vanderbilt
USC</p>
<p>Y, H, P
in that order.
/Hearingbackfromtheminfivedaysahhhhhh</p>
<p>Brown University!</p>