<p>Yeah so I've got a SAT:2080 and and an ACT: 31 and GPA: 3.89 (8 APs) but what I really have going for me is my leadership, extra curriculars, essay, and recs. What I'm looking for is an Ivy that cares about more than just test scores and looks more at your character and leadership potential. Which Ivy league would be a good fit for this kind of criteria?</p>
<p>Your stats aren't that bad for an Ivy (SAT could be raised). But all of the Ivies look at everything. They don't just care about stats or anything. Yes, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton look at everything too. And they do care a lot about leadership ualities and such. But you can't just say that on your app. you have to show it somehow.</p>
<p>g0ldenboy is right. Just look at the averages. You are very close to the averages of a lot of the ivies. They will get tons of candidates that have 2300+, and half of them will get rejected because they look for EC's. The ivy league schools are much different than schools like the UC's. I don't know if it's similar but I talked to MIT admissions offivers and they said that they only look at SAT's and GPA one time, which is at the very beginning. You pretty much should just have a competitive SAT score, which you have, and a competitive GPA, you also have that. Now it's time to show passion and initiative.</p>
<p>hey, thanks. That's encouraging cause I really want to find a school that looks at the whole me.</p>
<p>IMO Penn cares the least about scores, followed by Columbia and Brown.</p>
<p>I definitely agree that Brown focuses more on well-rounded students like you. I don't know about UPenn other than it's pretty competitive, but according to a rating I read on a magazine, Columbia actually is the 3rd hardest Ivy to get in to. I would lean more toward Brown.</p>
<p>Sweet cause that's where I was leaning anyways (towards Brown).</p>
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