<p>To major in English and minor in political sciences if she:
-Took 6 AP's senior year (AP Gov, AP Stats, AP English, AP Spanish, AP Bio) and 1 AP junior year (AP Lit) with all 4's and 5's on the exams
-Was a registered Abenaki Native American
-Had a 3.6-3.6.5ish cumulative GPA (not sure yet)
-Had a 2300 SAT, 760 Math II (SAT 2), 720 Lit (SAT 2), 34ACT
-2,000+ community service hours (manager at a soup kitchen and weekly volunteer at a nursing home)
-Was a cashier since 14 at supermarket, working 20 hours a week
-Was a creator of successful website and was interviewed by a popular talk show host (I don't want to share neither the name of my website nor my name)
-Wrote a novel (I'm still working on it but it will hopefully be published before I apply...)
-Suffered from undiagnosed ADD (reason for lower freshman and sophomore grades, but straight A's junior year and the first semester (and second) of senior year)
-Sprinter (track)
-Winner of a few poetry and essay competitions
-Bronze and silver national Spanish exam awards</p>
<p>What would this girl's chances be at HYPS, as well as Cornell, Brown, UPenn, and Columbia?
PS. The test scores aren't a "guess"...</p>
<p>She sounds like a very, very competitive applicant. The SAT and AP scores show she is smart and can handle the workload. The only worrying thing is the GPA but that has an explanation. Interesting ECs, and the minority status can only help.</p>
<p>You definitely seem like you have a strong chance at a top school like Harvard. If your counselor has let your schools know why you had a low GPA in your freshman/soph years, it shouldn’t keep you from getting in. Obviously, it’s still a crapshoot since nobody can really say they have a super strong chance of getting into Harvard (unless they’re recruited), but you definitely do have a good chance at it (more than most, given that the average acceptance rate is like 6% or something).</p>
<p>You haven’t applied yet? I assumed you were a senior since you said you’d gotten straight As in your first semester of senior year. Is that just prospective haha?</p>
<p>You speak in the third person. Yet in Feb, you represent yourself as a Sophomore who intends to apply to Ivies (ironically all except for Dartmouth). Who is already in NHS. Who got a SAT 2360 the June of her Freshman year (and scored two 800s on SAT IIs) . And you’re the “founder” of your school’s newspaper — yet it was already the #1 ranked HS in your state (despite not even having a newspaper it seems). And your SAT II scores have dropped since Feb. You say your scores aren’t a “guess”. What were they when you said they were 800s?</p>
<p>How is it physically possible for you to log 2000+ community service hours, while working 20 hours a week, while writing a novel, while managing a “successful website”?</p>
<p>Oh my. It’s kinda strange that you stalked my thread history- I knew one of you would!! I lied. Okay? Back in Feb. I lied about my SAT scores because I was hoping they would improve, but this time I was being honest!! And yes, my high school IS the #1 public school in my state, yes, without a newspaper. I created the newspaper because no students found it a necessity and no students took the time to manage it. YES I have been volunteering at a soup kitchen since going into 9th grade, and YES I am only a sophomore and I HOPE to get A’s next year and senior year. I was proposing IF I did. Why do people have to be so rude on here? I spoke in THIRD PERSON for a REASON. I wasn’t saying any of the info was TRUE.</p>
<p>Because the people on these boards are working adults or busy students who sacrifice time to give advice to anonymous high schoolers. I think it is a courtesy to not waste their time with fictional data.</p>
<p>Well then – you seem to have a good knowledge of what it takes to be a viable H candidate since you’re programming yourself to be that. Good luck in your ventures. But to ask for “chance me” on this laundry list of achievements – is kinda strange to me. Do those things, enjoy those things, apply widely. What more can be said?</p>
<p>BTW: there are tons of Trolls on this site (and in the H forum in particular). Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck — likely, they’re a duck. ■■■■■-radar is constantly up on the H forum and you should be aware of that.</p>
<p>Chance threads serve no purpose. The kids who make them will almost certainly continue to apply to top schools even after people on these boards might tell them they have no chance. The chance thread really does not have any affect on anything. </p>
<p>That being said, they will continue to thrive on these boards. Oh well.</p>