<p>Please rate me on what my chances are of getting into the following schools:
Brown University
Columbia University
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University</p>
<p>Age - 16
Grade - 11
Swedish & American citizen.
I speak 4 languages fluently, and can speak another 3 to an extent. I have lived in over 6 countries, in different continents, all over the world.</p>
<p>School:
GPA- 4.0 (on a 4.0 scale)
SAT - 2350
2 Honors, 2 AP classes
3 college credits from NYU (I got an A+ for all of these)
I have also interned for a Senator in New York (He gave me a glowing recommendation letter)</p>
<p>EC:
Peer Helper
Newspaper Editor
Music Group Leader
Yearbook Club
Student Council
MUN
NHS (National Honor Society)
Choir
Theater
Gymnastics
Tennis
Soccer
Track & Field</p>
<p>Volunteer:
Leader of Church Youth Group
Fundraising Manager
Wish Granter - Make a Wish Foundation
Volunteer with Red Cross
Volunteer with Special Needs
Volunteer at various orphanages</p>
<p>Let me know if you want any additional information. </p>
<p>All of those schools are reaches except for UPenn (non Wharton) which is a low reach/high match. Like @Protein123 said, choose some more safeties and matches. You don’t want to get shut out because you applied to ambitiously. However,that being said your stats are really good. I would expect that you would make one of the Ivies.
Btw what is your major?</p>
<p>@safi235
I will be applying to several safety schools as well, don’t worry!
Is there anything specific that you think I should work on?
I want to major within law and psychology. </p>
<p>I see a “fit” issue with a list containing both Columbia and Brown.
Read this:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1525399-if-you-are-asking-for-your-chances-to-ivies-and-other-top-schools.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1525399-if-you-are-asking-for-your-chances-to-ivies-and-other-top-schools.html#latest</a>
You’re within range for all but you don’t have a specific hook.
Being quadrilingual is nice but not a hook in itself, for instance. It can come in handy if you hope to study international relations or something involving other cultures and languages, but that would especially help you for AU, Georgetown, GWU, Middlebury, perhaps Occidental due to the UN intern program. It’ll be a plus for any Top 10 university/LAC but it won’t be a hook.
You’re an amazing student who’ll be competing against equally amazing students, including some who are the best in their country or in the world. So, your odds are roughly 1 in 20 for HYP and 1 in 15 for the others on your list. Not out of reach (which is better than what we can say for most would-be applicants) but still a wildcard or a crapshoot. You could apply to 3-4 from that list, “just to see”, but you should focus on safeties, matches, and realistic (less selective) reaches.
You first task should be to find safeties (your public flagship’s honors program or honors college + universities with 50%+ admit rates where you’ve consistently shown interest by emailing, filling out the “request info” questionnaire, and visiting) plus matches (universities with an admit rate above 30%. Considering your stats, you may add a couple with selectivity at 25630% but do include some with selectivity is at 35-40%.)
Have you run the net price calculators and shown the results to your parents? How much can they afford? Will you need financial aid? Merit aid?</p>
<p>Will you be completing more AP classes in your 12th year? If so, which ones? They all seem like reaches to me, just make sure you have safeties selected! If your plan does go wrong, you can always turn to these in grad school.</p>
<p>I think you have a good chance at all of these schools just try to take more AP classes, what were your scores on the 2 AP exams you already took?
Also, make sure you want to go to these schools because you actually like them, not just because they’re ivies. Columbia has a pretty strict Core curriculum, while Brown has a more ‘open’ type course selection. Penn is pretty pre-professional focused (ex finance, wharton, nursing schools), and some people say Harvard doesn’t focus much on their undergrads. These schools are actually very different, so do some research and don’t apply to all of them just because you want the ivy brand-name.</p>
just try to take more AP classes, what were your scores on the 2 AP exams you already took?