<p>Most kids who are unhooked, and get into ivy league schools have some characteristics that are very similar:</p>
<p>If your a val/sal, and you score a 2250+ with a 1550+ on reading and math, you need lots of A.P.s…(academic side of it) you have a good shot at A ivy league school…you need to be at least need to be top 5 percent of your class, if you can’t be val/sal…</p>
<p>You need leadership positions in school clubs/organizations, tons of volunteer work, do research in professional labs…join academic teams like the academic decathalon, or join non academic activites like karate and get your 2nd degree black belt, or do both…just do stuff that you enjoy and would make you stand out…</p>
<p>Essays and recs have to be stellar…</p>
<p>Of course sometimes it doesn’t work out no matter how hard you try, and you shouldn’t live your life with the sole intention of getting into an ivy-league school…work hard in life, but work hard because you enjoy working hard…</p>
<p>Our valedictorian got into princeton and yale, waitlisted at harvard, and rejected at stanford, her sat scores were around a 2240… she was really involved in research…</p>
<p>Our salutorian got into brown, upenn, cornell, and columbia, she had around a 2270…her parents were alumni at columbia…</p>
<p>^^ valedictorian was unhooked, her recs and essays must have kicked butt…salutorian was not urm or athlete…</p>
<p>My friend goes to Wharton(sophmore there now), had a perfect Sat score (single sitting), he was getting calls from Harvard over the summer of his junior year telling him to apply, but he didn’t(lol), he was top 5 percent of his class at a top prep school…and he was really, really involved in his school activities…I think he was the chief editor of his school newspaper, he did a internship with a major coporation in downtown phildelphia, president of this student body, and he spent 2 months in south america doing economics research(something about developing economies in the third world) and community service, and he went to rap battles in the suburbs(lol, rap battles in the suburbs? lol)…
^^^^ he was also unhooked…</p>