<p>Volunteer Work:
Children's soccer league assistant coach. (2.5Y)
Running a computer lab for a senior center. (1Y)
Helping with hospital studies (2Y)</p>
<p>Swimming for 10Y, ranking in top 100 for 2 years of programming competitions (nationally). </p>
<p>I also have about 150 hours or so of volunteer work.</p>
<p>Courses taken: (about 4-5 honors courses my senior year), rest are normal as I had to move in the middle of a school year, and that messed up scheduling.</p>
<p>I have had courses in:
Accounting I&II, Intro to business, business in a tech world (lots of business), general visual arts, (Bio, physics H, Chem), Calc I H.</p>
<p>So which Ivy do I have the best chance for ED? I was thinking cornell or brown, but not sure.</p>
<p>Best chance at Cornell ED. They have the best boost in acceptance rate for ED’ng. Cornell Regular: 20.7% ED:37.0% and then Brown Regular: 13.7% ED: 22.6%</p>
<p>Other ivies are only lower than these acceptance rate. Go for Cornell. </p>
<p>Do keep in mind that your stats and ECs are not strong among applicants to any Ivy, and ED may not practically increase your chance since ED applicants typically have stronger overall creditials.</p>
<p>I agree, don’t apply to an ivy ED. It is recommended that you plan to take no standardized testing your senior year if you are applying ED, because it is very likely that the test won’t get to them in time. All ivies require subject tests, you currently have none and your SAT is on the low side. You also have no ECs your freshman year which weakens your application.</p>
<p>Well, but don’t college say deadline for SAT scores is Jan 1st or W/e? Because It seems to me I can still give both the October SAT and November subject tests for ED. Or am I missing something here? </p>
<p>I moved schools from Canada to the US at the end of 10th grade, and that caused me many problems. For example my old school had nothing like NHS or even a lot of clubs, it was a small school, maybe 200-300 student and mostly technologically focused. So I couldn’t really get much ECs, other than volunteer work. Than when I moved here I was told I can’t take APs, just Honors classes in senior year, which I am doing. </p>
<p>Do universities consider stuff like this? I’ve also been taking french since 4th grade if that does anything.</p>
<p>January 1st is the deadline for regular decision. The ED deadline tends to be November 15th and you need to have your tests in around then since you hear back in December.</p>
<p>I am not sure what you mean with the “do they consider that stuff” (not sure if you mean the reason for the lack of ECs or the reason for low rigor). Yes, for both, though for the ECs I feel like it is not a great reason. Most people here on CC that have strong ECs do many things outside of school, proving that no matter your school you can have good ECs. As for rigor that is not ideal but not a huge issue, rigor is in relation to what is available to you. For example my freshman year I did not take honors math because I was in a level where you could not take honors math, so that would not be viewed as bad.</p>
<p>It really varies by person/their interests, but I will list my ECs that I do outside of school as an example.
Coach at the local golf course through The First Tee
Member of the Junior Advisory Board at my The First Tee chapter
Teen Advisory Council at my local library
Assistant at the local glass center events
Student at my local glass center
College level science classes at the zoo (I no longer do this but it is a good example)
Animal behavioral research at the local zoo (no longer do that either, but again a good example)
Volunteer through The Friendship Circle
One of the yearbook editors for my chapter of The Friendship Circle’s yearbook
Various board positions in my youth group
Language classes for credit outside of school
Diller Teen Fellow
I probably forgot some stuff, but you get the idea. Don’t start doing ECs to impress colleges through, not only is it pointless (you should do ECs because you enjoy them) but it is also too late, there is not way to accumulate meaningful ECs with hours, board positions and other things that take years to achieve in a few months.</p>
<p>I think I’ll take my chances, or should I do JHU ED?</p>
<p>Also can you chance me for the following:
Emory (Oxford), Tufts, JHU, U of Texas, U of Rochester, Rutgers (Safety), Boston College, Wake Forest, U of Virginia, Boston University, William and Mary, Lehigh, U of Washington</p>
<p>John Hopkins does not require subject tests but they are strongly recommended (basically the same thing as required) and with your current score it is not a good idea to apply without a high score on something.</p>
<p>I am sorry but ED in general is not very realistic. ED takes careful planning to ensure that you have everything ready/the highest scores possible in time. Not only that but you need to have already visited a lot of schools so that you know exactly what you want since it is binding. As a future ED applicant I am starting my standardized testing in December, months before my classmates start and have already met with my counsellors several times to ensure my timeline is OK. Your SAT score is good, but not for the schools you are looking at and you needed to have two subject tests (some ivies require three) already. Retake tests, take some subject tests, get better scores and apply regular decision.</p>
<p>If your scores go up I think you will have a decent shot at JHU and BU, I don’t know enough about the rest of the schools on your list to chance you for them (sorry).</p>
<p>Thanks, I’m sure I can get a much better SAT scores in October, going through all of Barrons’ book, I get about 2000 on the practice tests, so I’ll do quite a bit better. Really hope for JHU though. Maybe I’ll do Cornell normally. And go a few universities with EA instead.</p>