<p>Like most people I received a letter and looked into it. I was wondering if it was even worth for me to try. Please be honest and any tips would be helful! I want to become a doctor or p.a so science is my focus. I speak 4 languages fluently. My mom is a single parent who makes 50,000 a year and I'm a very good writer when I put in a lot of time.</p>
<p>You have a good shot in being named a finalist.</p>
<p>Match is a crapshoot for everyone- only 10% of finalists are given an award. To improve your chances of being matched, you should take the opportunity to rank every school, and avoid ranking the pretty much close to 0% acceptance rate schools (Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton). </p>
<p>The following are QB partner schools- the most selective ones (acceptance rates below 15%) are starred.</p>
<p>Cal Tech*
MIT*
Swarthmore College*
Carleton College
University of Chicago*
Grinnell College
Rice University
Princeton University*
Haverford College
Pomona College*
Williams College
Yale University*
Oberlin College
Stanford University*
Brown University*
Wesleyan University
Amherst College*
Bowdoin College*
Wellesley College
Dartmouth College*
Vassar College</p>
<p>Also, please be aware that even if you live with a single parent, the other parent’s income will in most cases be taken into consideration when it comes to financial aid. There are exceptions to this, but if your other parent has been involved in your life and pays child support, it is VERY unlikely that you will receive a non-custodial parent waiver for financial aid purposes.</p>
<p>I guess I’m confused about a LAC is in general. I thought it was just for liberal arts majors. Can someone explain?
I took act with writing but no SAT IIs.
In general with the grades I have currently do I have a shot at any ivys, if so which ones?</p>
<p>Paris2- you listed your GPA as 4.0. What scale is you GPA on? I was assuming that was your unweighted GPA which would mean that you have straight A’s. For example, when I listed my sons’s GPA of 3.95, that was unweighted. His weighted GPA was 4.96 as he took almost all honors and AP courses. All schools in this program want to see that you took the most academically challenging courses available to you at your school and that you did well. </p>
<p>To apply to Dartmouth, you will need to take two SAT IIs. The other three schools you
listed do not require SAT II’s. </p>
<p>LACs require that you take a broad range of classes. For example, at Yale you have distribution requirements, I.e., so many English, foreign language, science, math, arts credits thar you have to have These credits can be in any class, but you have to have them. My son plans on majoring in composition, but he will receive a Bachelor of Arts not a Bachelor of Music. You, on the other hand would major in science (I am assuming) and would receive a Bachelor of Science. I am not sure of the stats because I don’t have any kids who want to be doctors, but a high percentage of med students received liberal arts degrees. My son’s good friend who is going to Colorado College (a LAC and QB partner school) on a full ride with the Boettcher scholarship, plans on going to med school.</p>
<p>I would definitely look into the LACs. Don’t limit yourself based on wanting to go to med school.</p>
<p>As to your chance in getting into an Ivy league school, none of us can predict that. That is why chance threads make no sense. To have an idea of acceptances and rejections, go to the admitted student’s thread for Rice, Dartmouth etc and look at the stats for the students who were accepted/rejected. You will see that kids with perfect scores don’t get in and kids with lower scores do. The acceptance rates are extremely low. One thing that I can tell you for certain, you have a 0% chance of getting in if you don’t apply. :D</p>