<p>Looking to apply to at least one ivy just to try...which one gives me the best shot?</p>
<p>1940 Sat
4.0 GPA
4 ap classes
Football
Tennis Co Captain
Fbla president, national qualifier
Young Republicans president
History club
Mock trial
Debate team
Freshman executive council
Part time job</p>
<p>Schools with common app are preferred </p>
<p>Thanks!!!</p>
<p>…What?</p>
<p>That’s not how you choose colleges to apply to - all of the ivies are different, and what one is known for may not be the case for the others (eg: Cornell for engineering but not Yale). You won’t fit into all of them depending on your major choice and location preference etc, so choosing one based on the best shot you have isn’t really the smart thing to do. </p>
<p>In any case, with a 1940 SAT and no hook all of them will be very difficult to get into (I’m sure you know this already). Have you taken the SAT IIs? Many of them require (not recommend) submitting at least 2.</p>
<p>In terms of acceptance rate, Cornell is the “easiest” to get into, but it will still be very difficult to get in with a 1940 when applicants with even 2200+ get rejected.</p>
<p>Any Ivy is an extreme longshot for you, due to your SAT (and it’s really not quite as good as the 1940 suggests–you put the breakdown on another thread, and your CR and M are significantly lower than your W, and that hurts). If you really want to just take a shot at an Ivy, I guess I’d suggest you apply to Penn, in the hope that being in-state might help a tiny bit.
All this advice would be different, of course, if you have a significant hook, like if you are a recruitable football player, or if you are a URM (minority student)–although that SAT would probably be too low even for a URM or a legacy.</p>
<p>All of the Ivy League colleges are really different; some are preppy, some are hippie colleges, all have different fields that they’re strong in. Just getting into an Ivy doesn’t mean you should go.</p>
<p>Apart from the perfume industry, the greatest repositories of highly-trained noses are the admissions committee rooms of Ivy League universities.</p>
<p>And what are they trained to smell? That tell-tale whiff of “I’m just applying here for the prestige.”</p>
<p>If you don’t have a <em>reason</em> to want to go to a particular school, and that school specifically, the admissions reader will happily sweep your application in the “No” pile, congratulating herself as she does so for diligently protecting the school’s admissions yield and possibly ratcheting it up a notch on the USNWR rankings next year.</p>
<p>To put it another way: The Ivy that is easiest for you to get into is the one that it is easiest for you to enthusiastically see yourself attending.</p>
<p>What grade are you in? If you can, take the SAT again. Your GPA is great, and with an SAT score of 2200+, your chances will seriously go up. If you can take the SAT again, start studying now. Cornell doesn’t put an emphasis on the Writing Section, so direct most of your studying at Math and Critical Reading.</p>