What are the chances of getting into an Ivy League school?
Harvard and Yale have need-blind admissions. So money wont help. Don't get involved in a lot of ECs, get involved in meaningful ones and hold an officer position. Sports are great, but keep in mind that many great students dont have a great athletic background and thus sports is weighted less. If you asked me for any Ivy, I would say your SAT score should be around 2200 or an ACT of 31. But since its Harvard or Yale, 2250 plus or 33 plus to be competitive. ECs like Model UN and Mock Trial Club are great for majors like Poli Science and other liberal arts majors, while Math Club and Science Olympiad are great for science related majors. Do what you want, wherever you want, whenever you want. But STRONG ECs are extremely important. For example, one student in my school had a perfect GPA, perfect SAT score, lots of ECs and a decent essay. He had no officer positions and thus he was rejected from everyone of his top choices. Another student had a near perfect GPA, a 2300, great volunteer work and ECs, and he held officer positions with a great essay. HE got into Stanford
What are my chances of getting into the Ivy League schools, UC schools, and other top notch colleges?
At this point, Ivy’s are out of the question, as are the best UC’s. However, you can probably get into some of the lesser-prestigious UC’s such as UC Merced or something. Unless you get a higher GPA, I’d say forget about those schools and aim lower. Especially since you’re Korean (right?). Colleges only accept a certain number of Asians, which includes Chinese and Japanese as well as Koreans, all of whom are VERY smart. You do have a lot of Extra currics, but GPA is far more important. Try aiming for the schools that are really great but a lot less well-known than Ivy’s and such. Maybe Rice or something? Hope this helps.
What are my chances of getting into UC / Ivy League schools?
Currently, I just got done with my sophomore year in high school. So far, this is how my high school days have been going: -Top of my Freshman class award with a GPA of 4.619 average -4 years Marching Band, Steel Drums, Jazz Band, and piano playing for School Masses. (*I'm very good at playing piano and drumset) I get lots of service hours for this. -4 years Member of CLC group (Christian Learning Community extracurricular), Video Games Club -3 years President of Hip-Hop Club -1 year President of my Junior Class -Been playing piano since 2nd grade -Not doing any sports (mainly because I have asthma that's really bad) -2 years Academic Decathlon team junior and senior year. -2 years Link Crew member, CSF officer junior and senior year. (when I say 4 years, I mean I'm going to do that for the rest of high school) I'm mainly concentrating on the academics as you can see.. partly because I easily get asthma when doing sports. I'm really into music though, and I enjoy it. The colleges I'm looking at right now are: -Any of the Ivy Leagues -UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD -Stanford (possibly?) -CAL Tech Current Cumulative Weighted GPA: 4.75 Current Cumulative Unweighted GPA: 4.0 I know I can maintain a GPA over 4.7 every semester, but how good is that? What SAT scores should I be aiming for? How else can I improve?
My chances of getting into an Ivy league school? ?
Well i'm not goinng to say which one because i really dont need anyone telling me how impossible it is yeah so please to lecture me on how i'm not going becuase i'm not rrich or not in like the top 1% of america But yeah anyways My freshman year in high school i have 83 grade average this year my sophmore year i had some really bad family problems that put me way back to like a 70 average for the first semester of my sophmore year i'm past all of my family problems and i'm hoping to bring my semester average for the second half of my sohpmore year to like a 95 ( yeah i can do it) which will make me have a 82 year average then my junior and senior hopefully nothing goes wrong like it did this year i hope to bring it up to a 90 or possibly highergrade average for the years so ill have from an 86 to 90 average i dont know where that falls in my GPA but all of my classes have been pre-ap or ap except freshman year i'm doing Academic decathlon and BPA (Business Professionals association) Community service i have taken my SAT or ACT but on the PSAT i made 600-700 and i'm studying alot for SAT What are my chaces of still being able to go to an ivy league school
What are my chances of getting into an ivy league?
I got into Brown this year. I had a 2400 SAT and a 36 ACT. I took a total of 11 AP classes before I graduated high school. I was also valedictorian. Remember, these upper-crust schools want more than just your scores. You're more than your numbers. Everyone else applying to these schools has high scores. Keep involved in school activities and volunteer programs. Also, Ivy League schools aren't the ONLY schools...there are plenty of other excellent schools...and in some ways, they're better. You'll never know unless you apply. The earlier you decide to apply, the better.
What are my chances of getting into an Ivy League...?
many schools, including ivy league schools who pioneered this, look at more than the numbers. they look at you as a person, too. what will you bring to the school that others might not? how can you form a partnership with your educators at that school to get the most out of your education? the faculty actually wants you to succeed, and they will appreciate it if you can tell them exactly who on their faculty you would want to work with and why their work (look at what courses they teach but also look for books they have written to get a good idea of their body of work), in particular, will bring out the best in you and will help you contribute to the school's student profile. i always encourage prospective students to contact the department you are interested in and ask to meet with a professor whose work you find to be close to your area of interest. some schools may not have time for you, or you may have to speak with a non-tenured prof instead of regular faculty at this part of the process. try your hardest to even get to talk to current students, they can put in a good word for you, too. but don't be a copy-cat of anyone's work that has been done there -- they don't want you to be a mini-me, they want you to take what they will give you and build something new on top of it. so impress them with your ideas for that, how you would take your learnings from them and other faculty members, as well as other disciplines, and turn that into something unique that only you and they together can accomplish. it's a sales job. you are selling yourself to them, you are asking them to offer their gift of knowledge in return for your gift (of tuition). think of it as the sales job of your life -- if you get into this school, it will well-situate you in life forever. you will automatically be connected to other graduates of that school. you can go up to anyone who graduated from there and call them your "brother" or "sister." going to a good school is like being in a big fraternity/sorority. give as much research and effort to this application process as you think your life is worth. you can always make a good impression that supersedes any defficiencies you may think your academic record may contain, or just enhance a great academic record. if you show them that, in your eyes they aren't just a school to apply to, but a school with which you want to be linked for the rest of your life, they will be impressed. best of luck!