<p>Hi, I am applying to all the Ivies and MIT, Duke, and Georgetown... I was wondering what my chances are? Any ideas?</p>
<p>I have a 1410 on my SAT: 760 Verbal and 650 Math.
SAT II: Writing 700
Math IIC 560
Biology M 690</p>
<p>AP Scores:
AP English Lang 4
AP Spanish 5
AP Art Hist 5
AP Psych 5
AP Biology 4
AP US Hist 4</p>
<p>I am in the top 3% of my school (Number 33 out of a class of 999)</p>
<p>I founded an Art History Honor Society which I am President of
Treasurer of Science Honor Society
President of Model UN which I reactivated
Secretary of Social Studies Honor Society
Historian of Math Honor Society
Also, participate in SECME and the mousetrap comp which our school won 3rd place for.</p>
<p>Community Service:
Tutoring in Science - 70 Hours
Teaching an AP Art History Review course - 20 Hours
Writing Tutoring - 108 Hours
City Clean-Up - 5 Hours</p>
<p>In addition to having all 6 classes AP I am also taking AP Calculus AB online and Latin II online, my school classes are
AP Span Lit
AP Eng Lit
AP Euro Hist
AP Phy C
AP Macroeco/AP Govt
AP Calculus BC</p>
<p>Last Summer I took Fencing classes and did an International Relations Program at Georgetown University.
I am also 100 pages into a novel that I am writing and have writen scripts on my spare time since the age of 13.</p>
<p>Major: Art History and Literature with an interest in Theoretical Physics, Biochem, and International Relations.</p>
<p>Wow...that's a gigantic school...where do you live?</p>
<p>The SAT scores are going to hurt...
SAT I - a 1410 is at the bottom of the middle 50% everywhere you're applying with the exception of (maybe) Georgetown.
SATII - anything below a 700 is looked at with great suspicion. the 560 in Math IIC will KILL
I suggest you retake both the IIC and Bio...You'll want to take the New SAT I as well.</p>
<p>Top 3% of the grade isn't bad especially with a class so large...What's you're gpa?
ECs are great....</p>
<p>but I suggest you apply to some safeties and have some very original essays.</p>
<p>Yea. I don't think you have a chance at the Ivies with those stats. It doesn't seem like you have anything uniquethere are many kids with stats like these. Do you have any significant awards?</p>
<p>Not many people are interested in theoretical physics. Dont put that as your major to any of those colleges b/c it would contrast sharply with your somewhat low Math II score....improve on the SATs, and SATII. Got to have some nice ECs though... But to be honest dont expect 12 AP classes to be an automatic admission to the Ivies.. Believe me, I had 13 AP classes and 4 college classes and they didn't do me too much good.</p>
<p>ummm that SATII... stood out like a sore thumb. SATI 1410, i thought not bad.. chance for bottom IVYs.. but yeah. rank 33/999 i find an amusing number.. rofl. but grade wise, you have ALREADY TAKEN 6 APs.. and currently taking 8, and so i imagine you would graduate with 20 APs, is definitely a standout in your work ethic.. or wahtever it is.</p>
<p>hm.... with so many leadership positions and initiative, it'll probably be more favorable than the negativeness (!) posed by your low(er) SAT scores.<br>
Write a very very interesting essay, and try to raise those SAT's, and you'll be in good shape!</p>
<p>That is suicide. The 11 schools you are planning to apply to will most likely all reject you. You are a good student, but your SAT IIs are weak by Ivy League standards. Apply to 3 or 4 Ivies and a couple of other reaches (like Georgetown and Johns Hopkins or Tufts) but then apply to a few matches, like Wisconsin-Madison and George Washington and to at least 2 safeties.</p>
<p>Okay. Based on your SAT 2's, I would recommend that you retake all of them, especially the Math 2C. You should also retake the SAT, just to see if you can increase your score. Your class rank is great. Based on your current stats, all of your schools that you've mentioned applying to are reaches. So, try to improve your test scores, and also make sure you write a great essay for all of those colleges. Great stats don't guarantee admission into those schools. In addition to your scores, your admission decision to those schools may come down to the quality of your essay.</p>
<p>Well this was more as if to see what people thought? But truth of the matter is I am a senior and I already got my decisions back... Rejected everywhere. But I am waitlisted at Duke and I have a back up at which I have full paid scholarship so no freaking out. I know my essay was strong. SAT never studied, just crammed about 250 words the night before same as with APs... so yeah I know my essay was strong but there are certain things in my transcript which I can pin point to be the obvious problem. I know SAT:II were bad Math IIC was just pathetic because I ran out of time, I think it was somehting like 12 percentile but I didnt have time to retake them and bio also pathetic and even writing a 700 is horrible for writing my essay got 11/12 but the m/c killed me. I was expecting the lower Ivies because I know ppl this year that got in with way lower scores and way less EC but yeah, the ironic part is that Duke is 5 according to US NEWS and cornell is 15? Anyways, thanks for the comments... I wanted to see what you all thought. BTW gpa unweighted is 3.32 which is ridiculously low but there were certain problems that counselor didnt include bc old counselor left and newbie didnt think he had to include!</p>
<p>Danalor, did you seriously think that you'd make it to the Ivies with those stats? Unless you're a URM, you should have known from the beginning that you wouldn't make it. Why did you apply to so many reach schools? And also, how does a 3.32 GPA put you in the top 3% of your class? Your school must have serious grade-deflation, because at my school, 3.32 wouldn't even be top quintile.</p>
<p>Well interestingly enough I know of some people who had about 1200-1300 on SATs lower scores in SAT IIs virtually no Extracurriculars and they still got into Cornell -- you would be very surprised. No passed AP exams and their GPA not even a 3.0. A 3.32 is only my weighted my real GPA is 5.4 or something around that, our valedictorian is almost 7.0 with an unweighted of 4.0 . Also our senior class has 999 students, our school has a total of 4,500 students. And I am hispanic, unfortunantly, Im not a girl!</p>
<p>Well, Danalor, your school may be an exception. Out of 5 students who applied to Cornell from my school this year, only 1 got in, and he is a urm. The other 4 who were rejected had 1500 sat scores, and they all had 4.0 (uw) 4.3-4.5 (weighted) gpa's. When you are applying to Cornell, it also depends on the undergraduate college to which you are applying to because some of them at Cornell don't rely on stats so much as portfolios, work experience, and devotion like the hotel school, and college of architecture.</p>
<p>Actually Sdma, there are many students with 1100-1300 who get into schools like Cornell, Chicago, Duke, Penn etc... They make up about 25% of the student bodies of those mega selective universities.</p>
<p>Why do you want to go to totally different schools like MIT and Georgetown? Gonna major in either EE or history? Go to schools you like, not that sound good.</p>
<p>Hey Alexandre. You are right about that. There are students who get into Cornell, Penn, Duke, Darrtmouth, etc. with 1100 to 1300 SAT Scores. They do make up about 25% of the student body. However, I got the impression that Danalor was saying that if you have a 1200-1300 Sat Score, then you can get into Cornell because he knows people who did, when that isn't completely true. There may be indeed a story behind those SAT Scores which may have lead to their acceptances, like economic status, extremely well written and very unique essays, urm status (if applicable), etc.</p>