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Hi, with a 3.9UW/4.5W Gpa, with 13 AP classes, and the rest honors and dual enrollment, and 1570 SAT Score, Internships, volunteer work and research, would could i improve to get into ivy leagues?
Do you feel that your scoring is bad? It should be quite good depening on your extracurriculars of course. I think the essays and what you do for extracurriculars is what can set you apart if you can make them form a full picture along with your recommendation letters.
I am afraid if you look at Ivy Leage, all the applications will have sky high SAT and GPA and extracurriculars so you will very quickly be just average. So you can essentially only round it up with the essays and recommendations to make you as a person stand out.
How you can do that is probably by finding what is your anchor (i.e. what makes you special and memorable) and chisseling that out.
I am not sure if this is helping you but the information you provided is not giving much to work with because there is little conrete information what "Internships, volunteer work and research" you did. An internship related to what you want to do is better than any random internship and so on...
Anyways there is no harm in applying. The worst that can happen is being rejected.
Yeah, I am interested in STEM and Pre med so I have done a NASA internship, and also a local tech internship, I have done 3 years of Spanish and done the virtual nsli y internship, 3 years of hospital volunteer, also stem and career afterschool program and nhs, student council, debate, and deca, to be more specific. I haven’t done any huge non profit business or anything like that , but I’ve also done 2 years of Track, I just need to find national awards to try for and other extracurriculars but it’s very difficult. To add I’m a first gen, low income, POC, student in the state of Ohio that goes to a high school ranked in the 2,000th ish nationally.
I would think this forms a picture of who you are and though not my area of expertise the extracurriculars seem to be related to what you want to do. So all should be fine. You really dont have to be the founder / president of some non-profit just for the sake of it. If it relates to your story then all is well - if it doesnt it just screams you are sort of sugar coating your resume. I am not in the admission board but I think if it seems that you are just doing it to make you shine more, it can have the opposite effect because it feels "fake" and could probably get you penalised.
Instead I would focus on connecting everything you have done into a single story. Your profile seems to have enough for that.
I think you have it all but dont forget to do extracurriculars that are related with the topics you are interested
Yeah, I am interested in STEM and Pre med so I have done a NASA internship, and also a local tech internship, I have done 3 years of Spanish and done the virtual nsli y internship, 3 years of hospital volunteer, also stem and career afterschool program and nhs, student council, debate, and deca, to be more specific. I haven’t done any huge non profit business or anything like that , but I’ve also done 2 years of Track, I just need to find national awards to try for and other extracurriculars but it’s very difficult. To add I’m a first gen, low income, POC, student in the state of Ohio that goes to a high school ranked in the 2,000th ish nationally.
Hi! I think it is good, ur SAT is high, and u also did dual enrollment. Do you have a initiative where you are the owner/president? I think that can improve your chances
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