<p>Im currently in Grade 12CBSE(indian education system) . My credentials are
4.0 GPA
2300 SAT
Victor Ludorum Award every year since sixth grade ( Valedictorian)
Grade 8 in electronic keyboard from trinity college london. Grade 8 is the highest qualififcation Trinity offers for my instrument.
Grade 8 in classical violin from the associate board of royal schools of music UK
Grade 5 in Music theory from trinity college london( comparable to AP Music Theory)
Head Boy of my school and been a member of the student council body every year since sixth grade
Victor Ludorum Award for excellence in music
Excellent golfer and have won many regional tournaments
I am running a school and vaccination center in India for children living in slums and have managed to arrange equivalent to 50000 USD in funds for this school
Attended Columbia Universitiy's summer school
program</p>
<p>Won several elocution and debate competitions in school as well as attende the Harvard Model UN.
Thanks and I hope for a very speedy response</p>
<p>This is a pointless Chance Me for two reasons. One, the Ivies are a high reach for everyone and are getting increasingly harder to get into (even Cornell) and two because you know that you are academically competitive and just trying to brag.</p>
<p>@sidcbse - You are what I call a credentialed reach. You have the stats and other attributes, but so do more students than there are slots at the Ivies. They are a reach for everyone, as people say, but more of a reach for some than others. You fall into the others category. So you have as good a chance as anyone IF your essays are great and you interview well. Obviously, make sure you also apply to several schools besides the Ivies that you think you would be happy at. Anyone could easily get shut out at all the HYPS schools, or they could get into 2 or 3 of them. It is that hard to predict.</p>
<p>If you give us some idea what you are looking for beyond the prestige of an Ivy, I am sure people can make suggestions for other schools to which you should apply where your chances of acceptance are much higher. It sounds like finances are not an issue.</p>
<p>Ummm, actually you don’t need help and advice. The aggregate information before me is more than enough to paint a clear picture about the ivy leagues.</p>
<p>There is not clear formula to get into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. There is a path to the ivy leagues, but it is nebulous area that nobody but the adcoms really knows much about.</p>
<p>The truth is that the Ivy League is a reach for anybody. Even a 4.0, 2400, award winning student might get rejected from an ivy league - it’s all up to the Admissions Officers from each school.</p>
<p>That is the truth about the admissions statistics. However, there is more to getting admitted than statistics.
I recommend you do a little bit more research on Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and find your regional admissions officers. Maybe you can contact them, and ask them more about the admissions process outside of the statistics range.</p>
<p>Hi
Any advice on my extracurriculars? Do ivy leagues recognize my music exams? Would appreciate advice especially from someone who has been to one of the colleges mentioned above.
Thanks again.</p>
<p>Yes, of course they recognize musical accomplishment. You might have to give them a very short explanation of what those marks mean exactly (e.g. "Grade 8 is top mark for this course, Grade 5 is best out of 6 of the Theory course. Whatever the truth is.), but they will definitely get the idea that you are a very good musician. You’ve also got some sports, some charity work and some school leadership. The EC’s seem very balanced. I don’t know what kind of advice you are looking for otherwise, but I gave you good advice to apply to other schools besides these, if you choose to take it. Even offered to suggest some if you can tell us what you are looking for in a school other than being able to say “I go to Harvard (or Yale or Columbia)” in case you get shut out of these.</p>
<p>Your resume seems fine. Focus on identifying your alternates at this point.</p>
<p>I did some charity work with an NGO and the chairperson would like to write a recommendation letter…good idea? Bad idea? How should she send the rec.?</p>
<p>@sidcbse - For post #9, I would say yes it is a good idea and that they should probably send the recommendation to your guidance counselor for your file, so that they can send it to all the schools to which you apply along with their own assessment. For post #10, that I have no idea about. Hopefully someone else will.</p>
<p>You could list CLEP exams under additional information, but since no Ivy school gives credit for CLEP, it won’t really enhance your application.</p>
<p>@AnnieBeats you’re very right, people we should stop replying to these Ivy chance threads(particularly where the person lists pretty much every Ivy). None of us have the mystical power of quantifying your Harvard chances. Do you seem qualified? Sure ya do. But according to the Dean of Admissions of an Ivy(I think it was Harvard), 70% of applicants are qualified. You really shouldn’t ask these kind of questions unless say your SAT/ACT is really low but you have an exceptionally compelling story. That would warrant you asking for opinions. Not to put you down but the chances forum should really be for people asking about schools where admissions might be more confusing and less thoroughly investigated by many sources(like the Ivies). Haha rant finished.</p>
<p>You mean you haven’t found the cure for cancer yet? Hmmm, looks like you should just save yourself the pain of rejection now and drop out and become fast food employee. </p>
<p>All of the Ivies are very different. Have you visited any of them? Or do you just want to attend because they’re Ivy League schools? My advice is to visit the ones you are considering applying to and narrow it down. They all have very different feels. There’s no way you’d love all of them.</p>
<p>@WilliamSmithers - That is why I have been trying very recently to “coin” the term “credentialed reach” for those students that have the credentials for a super selective school like the HYPS types, but of course like all similar applicants still have a much less than 50-50 chance of getting in to any particular one of those schools. In other words, as the word “match” is used on CC to mean chances of admission are 50-50 or better (as opposed to just having credentials that match their typical admit), there is no such thing as a match to these schools.</p>
<p>@Ranza123 - I completely agree, but the fact is there will always be students that are, in fact, only looking at the nameplate, the brand prestige. Often it is the parents that insist it is Ivy or nothing (sometimes even Harvard or nothing), often it is the student themselves, although in that case one has to wonder if it is because of how the parents raised them. Whatever the reason, we will never be rid of students that ignore everything else about what makes a college best for them other than what is best is that it is an HYPS school. It’s a shame, I think.</p>
<p>Bad idea! Cut out some of those activities. They aren’t fun anyway and won’t get you into a good college in the US! Getting a rec from a person at such a high position within the BMW event is a terrible idea! Raising so much money for charity is terrible! </p>
<p>If at all you felt convinced by these above statements, it means you’re not doing these activities in the correct way. You’re just simply trying to do what other people are passionate about. Do things that you interest you, and I promise you the results will work out in the end. Even if those results weren’t what you thought you wanted. Remember that and you will be successful. </p>