What are my chances for getting into Ivy leagues with this resume?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I would particularly like to know the chances for getting into Stanford, UPenn, Yale and Princeton. This is my Resume:</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2380</p>

<p>ACT (breakdown): Didn’t Take</p>

<p>SAT II (place score in parentheses): Math 2 (800), Chemistry (800), Biology E (800), Biology M
(800), Physics (800), French (800), World History (800), Latin (800)</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.0</p>

<p>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): (Not Sure, but based on my GPA, probably not very high)</p>

<p>AP (place score in parentheses): Calculus (5), Biology (5), English (5), French (5), Chemistry
(5), Environmental Science (5), Psychology (5), Statistics (5), Physics B (5), Economics (5)</p>

<p>IB (place score in parentheses): </p>

<p>Senior Year Course Load: Chemistry 2AP, Biology 2AP, English 4AP, French 5AP, Stat AP</p>

<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Physics Olympiad National Qualifier, Chemistry Olympiad
National Qualifier, Biology Olympiad National Qualifier, Odyssey of the Mind National Qualifier, United
States of America Mathematical Olympiad Qualifier, Intel Engineering and Science Fair Qualifier,
First Place Model United Nations, DECA international winner</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Model UN 10-12, Cross Country 9-10,
Track 9, Science Olympiad 10-12, Chem Club 9-12, Chess Club 9-12 (Captain 11-12), Math Team 11-12,
Biology Club 10-12 (President 12), Odyssey of the Mind 11-12 ( Co-Founder, Co-President), Engineering
Club 10-12, Robotics 9 11-12, Programming, Physics Club 11-12, Debate 11-12, Indian Cultural Society
10-12</p>

<p>Job/Work Experience: Worked at Kumon as a tutor/ grader</p>

<p>Volunteer/Community Service: Volunteered at library freshman year 70+ hours, Volunteered at spelling bee three years</p>

<p>Summer Activities: Programming</p>

<p>Essays: Alright</p>

<p>Teacher Recommendations:Not sure, I think they were good</p>

<p>Counselor Rec: Not sure</p>

<p>Additional Rec:</p>

<p>Interview: Didn't take one</p>

<p>Other:</p>

<p>State (if domestic applicant): New Jersey</p>

<p>Country (if international applicant):</p>

<p>School Type: Public</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Indian</p>

<p>Gender: Male</p>

<p>Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class</p>

<p>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>

<p>My real positive part of my resume are the national qualifiers, but other than that everything else isn't that great. Do I still have a good chance of getting into the Ivies? And if I don't, what would I have needed to make my resume better?</p>

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<p>Absolutely no chance for an unhooked applicant at those schools with your GPA. You need to be looking at a very different class of school. </p>

<p>You have near perfect scores on every standardised test, but can’t translate it to the classroom. Any idea why?</p>

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<p>@soze Clearly it shows that the SAT should not be such a huge part of college admissions. If a student can’t survive in a class, but exceeds on just one Saturday, they shouldn’t have a better chance at college admissions than the student who applies themself in school on a daily basis, yet isn’t a good test taker.</p>

<p>OP, you need to look at a whole new tier of schools. The Ivy League is not for you.</p>

<p>EDIT: You know, now that I think about it, I don’t think this is a real chance me. The OP has perfect test scores in literally everything-- from subject tests to APs. It’s practically impossible to have that with such an average GPA.</p>

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<p>The reason for my low GPA is because I was extremely lazy my first two years of high school. The summer after my sophomore year, I started working A LOT harder which is why I was able to achieve all those national qualifiers my junior year, but despite getting straight A’s my junior year, I could only bring it up to a 3.0. The reason I want to apply for Ivys is because of my junior year performance.</p>

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<p>@AnnieBeats: This is “not one Saturday” Look at the number of AP 5’s and 800 SAT IIs. He clearly has some soft of academic chops.</p>

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<p>@soze Some kids are great test takers, and bad students. Means nothing.</p>

<p>OP, sadly, the Ivies are most likely gonna be a no. No admissions counselor wants to be the one who admits the student who is notoriously a slacker. You may have had a good year, but they still probably won’t take that chance. Try looking at colleges out of the top 50.</p>

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<p>What if I had a 3.5 GPA? I believe I can bring it up to a 3.5 by the end of teh first semester of my senior year. So if I applied then would I have a chance?</p>

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<p>@AnnieBeats‌ Rightly or wrongly, taking tests is part of being a student. More so than notebook checks, building model colonial villages or making posters (all of which are often part of HS grading but are irrelevant to higher education.) But back to the subject at hand, you’re 100% correct he needs to drop down a few tiers.</p>

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<p>Nope. Unhooked applicants with that low a GPA don’t get in to the class of school you’re talking about. @AnnieBeats‌ is right, you need to move well out of the top 50.</p>

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<p>There is no way you can bring your UW GPA .5 in half a semester </p>

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<p>Wait aren’t my major awards a hook though?</p>

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<p>No awards are not hooks.</p>

<p>Hooks are:
Legacy
Recruited athlete
Under-represented minority
Donor</p>

<p>Frankly, for the type of schools you mentioned it would be unusual for an applicant to NOT have awards. The schools you mentioned ROUTINELY reject applicants with 2400’s and 4.0’s. Why would they take you whist rejecting these applicants? The answer is that they will not in the absence of a very compelling reason to do so and based on your info that compelling reason does not exist. </p>

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<p>You’re obviously a much better student than what the posters above are giving credit (haters gonna hate). Btw, for all the posters above, AP scores like this are the result of a lot of periodic studying. You can’t prep for a test overnight. The same goes for prepping for the SATs. A score like a 2380 equals to roughly about taking about 20ish practice tests beforehands (and obviously some intelligence from the test taker).
With that being said, I think you should consider some schools that are lower than the ivy. Your test scores are phenomenal (hard to believe tbh), but your GPA is not so good. If you can bring it up to a 3.5, you can have a small chance. However, I would strongly urge you to apply to only a few reaches and to also include safeties and targets in your list. </p>

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<p>@Classof2018app No one is hating. Colleges want good students not good test takers. There are basically only 2-3 weeks within the entire school year that testing skills will come in handy. Also, college tests aren’t as predictable as a subject test or the SAT, so you would actually have to do class work and homework to do well. OP, there is no way you can raise your GPA to 3.5 in one semester. Most students struggle to do that over the course of 2 years unless you are starting from a very very low GPA. Going from 3.0 to 3.5 in one semester is literally impossible. MAYBE you could get to 3.2 if you maintain a 4.0 and that is pushing it. Just lower the tier of schools you are looking at. I recommend looking at the Colleges that Change Lives schools.</p>

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<p>Seems like a ■■■■■ to me.</p>

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<p>You took 4 AP sciences in your junior year? LOL</p>

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<p>@Noel597 Nah during the summer I studied for the olympiads of the three sciences (I made it to nationals for physics, chem and bio olympiad) so I didn’t actually take the course in school, I just took the AP test. That’s also why I’m taking some of the sciences in senior year despite already taking the AP test for them</p>

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<p>What does national qualifier even mean? Are you a USAPhO, USAChO, USABO semifinalist or finalist? Are you an AIME qualifier, USAMO qualifier, or MOP qualifier? Are you an ISEF finalist?</p>

<p>I doubt you are a finalist for USAPhO, USAChO, and USABO. I don’t think anyone has ever been a finalist for all three. On the other hand, if you are only a semifinalist for all three and you only have AIME qualification, you will probably be rejected by the ivies. Being a semifinalist is unimpressive and will not make up for a low GPA. Furthermore, you will be competing against finalists with better GPAs than yours.</p>

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<p>aside from the fact that I don’t entirely believe your resume, you would have no chance at any of those schools even if everything is true and unexaggerated. with a 3.0, you should really be looking at state schools. my buddy had a 2360 and impressive AP/subject scores but had a 3.6, he got rejected by every top 30 school and is going to a state school. you have zero chance at ivy unfortunately, but good luck!</p>

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<p>@mangiafuoco I don’t understand the difference. For USABO I made it into the camp where only twenty people got into and I had to take a test, but I didn’t make it into the top 4. For USAPho and USAChO I didn’t make it into the camp but I took the test to get into that. Is that being a semifinalist? And I made it into ISEF but I didn’t win anything there. And I do have an AIME qualification, I know that.</p>