<p>Hello, I'm Emily and I have a strong desire to attend an Ivy League school. Now, this is less about chancing (I'm currently a junior) and more hypothetical.</p>
<p>My high school career has been all about improvement. I began at a low-competition, no budget school in New Jersey and I took the hardest classes available to me there (honors). Now I am in Florida, and the school district has the IB program which I began without taking the pre-IB course, and I currently have all A's. I plan on taking dual enrollment which is now offered to me, and taking basically the hardest courseload that I can give myself. I am also going to participate in several international volunteering programs.</p>
<p>I would say my situation is fairly average for ivy league appplicants but I do not have any extremely interesting push to get me accepted. I have been doing indoor/outdoor track since freshman year and cross country since sophomore year (JV). At my new school, I run varsity for cross country. I recently took up an extreme interest in running and think that I may be interested in running in college. I'm not very good at cross country, but in my first season alone I improved my 5k time by four and a half minutes. I moved over the summer and did not train much because of this so my junior year is starting off slower than I would have liked, but /assuming/ I can get a PR of early 20's or late 19's, which schools would I be able to run at (get recruited to, I suppose)?</p>
<p>I am referring to the slower girls on the track team, obviously. I looked at a couple teams and ivy league invitationals and saw that some girls were running as slow as 22 minutes. Also, specifically a girl who was from Wyoming on an ivy league team was running much slower in high school than girls from the Northeast, and my current location in Florida may play a factor.</p>
<p>Now before you answer this saying my goals are a reach or impossible or whatever, my sophomore cross country/track coach said I had more drive than anyone he had ever seen before on his team. He consistently exemplified me as someone who worked hard and I got the most improved award at the end of the season. I do not doubt my ability to improve by a lot.</p>
<p>I know this post is sort of all over the place, but basically could you tell me teams that I have a CHANCE at running at, the ivy league teams who tend to do the worst, what I could do to run in college, and if colleges would consider my improvement? Even if I wouldn't get recruited (per say), could my high school running career benefit me in admissions? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>LAST NOTE- I say recruited extremely lightly because I am not expecting my phone to be ringing with coaches wanting me for their team. I know I would be on the low low end of the team, but I did see girls with slow times which is what brought me to ask this question.</p>