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What kind of grades/courses do Ivy league schools require?

AgaBoogaBoo

AgaBoogaBoo

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I'm wondering as to what Ivy league schools expect in terms of grades, courses taken, and other history to get accepted.

Lets say, freshman year, I averaged about a 3.5 GPA for the year with only one Honors course. The rest of the years I get a 3.7 or 3.8 GPA for the year (My first semester freshman year wasn't the best....). Then, I was in the Ski and Snowboarding club every year. In the Cricket (sport, not insect) club 3 years, robotics club 1 or 2 years, and maybe spanish club 1 or 2 years. I also ran a large website in middle school when Pokemon was the biggest fad with a website that got over 10,000 unique visitors a day and only shut down to the point where my host wouldn't host me and even other hosts wouldn't take mine for their under $20 hosting accounts anymore, and they wanted me to get dedicated hosting and at this time the market wasn't going down with the .com boom and advertisers were paying close to nothing and went out of business soon after so I never made a penny. The website really taught me a ton more than money, because had I wanted money, I could have filled up the pages with ads but I only had 1 ad per page for a few months, the rest were ad-free!

Also, I may get to work a summer or two at a company handling some computer related things including Workstations, Unix and Windows based, and/or website design/management. I won't be working there for money, but more for the experience.

Anyway, tell me what else it would take to get into an Ivy league school, any Ivy league school for that matter, so nothing like a Hardvard or Stanford here...
 
I had a 4.0, valedictorian, all possible AP/honors classes, 3-4 clubs each year, community service, and BJs to the dean, and I still got wait-listed for Princeton.

Got into CMU though.. but damn that sh!t is too expensive for a poor white boy.
 
I think it's more a matter of affording it than anything else. Harvard was interested in me and I wasn't really that great a student. Maybe a ~3.5 gpa overall in highschool and not a whole lot of extra curricular stuff. I could have gone, but I would have had to pay for most of the tuition.
 
3.7/3.8 weighted GPA?
If yes, then probably not. At my high school, the average weighted GPA for the top 150 or more students in each grade level is above a 4.0, so there'd be a lot of people with a better GPA along with being very involved in clubs.
 
Originally posted by: DanFungus
3.7/3.8 weighted GPA?
If yes, then probably not. At my high school, the average weighted GPA for the top 150 or more students in each grade level is above a 4.0, so there'd be a lot of people with a better GPA along with being very involved in clubs.
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Its not weighted at all.
 
Originally posted by: Spoooon
I think it's more a matter of affording it than anything else. Harvard was interested in me and I wasn't really that great a student. Maybe a ~3.5 gpa overall in highschool and not a whole lot of extra curricular stuff. I could have gone, but I would have had to pay for most of the tuition.
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What kind of classes did you take and was it a tough high school?
 
when I applied to the Ivy's I woulda got in but I kept on ratteling off about my addiction to the power rangers and how I had every single action finger there was and I was deflowered by the red power ranger doll. I didnt get in and they later told me it was because of the power ranger stuff.

Moral of the story, forget about your pokemon nonsense. You think an ivy league school cares that you ran a goddamn little kids game website? Tell them you're a gay black porn god and they'll be more impressed.

Moral of the story, stfu about pokemon. Pokemon = homogay to the max and ivy league schools care more about the shade of the skin of your grundle. yep it's true.
 
Originally posted by: AgaBooga
Originally posted by: Spoooon
I think it's more a matter of affording it than anything else. Harvard was interested in me and I wasn't really that great a student. Maybe a ~3.5 gpa overall in highschool and not a whole lot of extra curricular stuff. I could have gone, but I would have had to pay for most of the tuition.
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What kind of classes did you take and was it a tough high school?
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I took a bunch AP classes and the like. It wasn't a breeze or anything like that. I was a national merit scholar though. The only assistance I would have received would have been from loans and the like. A step or two down (USC) offered to pay for about half the tuition, but still too expensive without my having to take out loans.
 
Originally posted by: SammyBoy
when I applied to the Ivy's I woulda got in but I kept on ratteling off about my addiction to the power rangers and how I had every single action finger there was and I was deflowered by the red power ranger doll. I didnt get in and they later told me it was because of the power ranger stuff.

Moral of the story, forget about your pokemon nonsense. You think an ivy league school cares that you ran a goddamn little kids game website? Tell them you're a gay black porn god and they'll be more impressed.

Moral of the story, stfu about pokemon. Pokemon = homogay to the max and ivy league schools care more about the shade of the skin of your grundle. yep it's true.
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Yes I know, but there was more to it than just for kids. Kind of long story which we don't need to get into but they would just be interested in me having a webpage with over 10,000 people a day and being offered a job in 5th grade for making a website for the grading software they used... Icann or something they called it, don't remember.
 
Originally posted by: Spoooon
Originally posted by: AgaBooga
Originally posted by: Spoooon
I think it's more a matter of affording it than anything else. Harvard was interested in me and I wasn't really that great a student. Maybe a ~3.5 gpa overall in highschool and not a whole lot of extra curricular stuff. I could have gone, but I would have had to pay for most of the tuition.
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What kind of classes did you take and was it a tough high school?
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I took a bunch AP classes and the like. It wasn't a breeze or anything like that. I was a national merit scholar though. The only assistance I would have received would have been from loans and the like. A step or two down (USC) offered to pay for about half the tuition, but still too expensive without my having to take out loans.
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I'm not as worried about the money, but more acceptance.
 
I'm pretty sure the only way you'll get in is a combination of:
1) Dumb Luck
2) Blowing the dean of admissions
3) Having a very rich relative who went there already
 
Ok, seriously what would I need to get in? Or what can I do now to try and get in after 3 more years of high school? I just freakin wanna know how to get in! I'm not talking about money here, but instead, getting accepted!
 
any particular Ivy that you're interested in? each has very different standards. I applied to three of the eight, rejected from one, waitlisted for another, and accepted with full scholarship for the last... as you can see, each college is very different.
 
Originally posted by: placebo139
any particular Ivy that you're interested in? each has very different standards. I applied to three of the eight, rejected from one, waitlisted for another, and accepted with full scholarship for the last... as you can see, each college is very different.
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Honestly, I'm interested in MIT, don't flame me or anything for this, please. But I'm seeing that it is going to be very hard. Actually, I have no clue what is really required or needed to get in. If you have a ny idea, please help me out.
 
You might get into Cornell. One good thing going for you there is that it's in the boonies, so not as many people want to live in Ithaca as they would had it been in NYC or something.
 
Originally posted by: AgaBooga
Originally posted by: placebo139
any particular Ivy that you're interested in? each has very different standards. I applied to three of the eight, rejected from one, waitlisted for another, and accepted with full scholarship for the last... as you can see, each college is very different.
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Honestly, I'm interested in MIT, don't flame me or anything for this, please. But I'm seeing that it is going to be very hard. Actually, I have no clue what is really required or needed to get in. If you have a ny idea, please help me out.
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well, first of all, MIT isn't an Ivy League school. The Ivy League schools are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, UPenn, and Cornell. And second of all, MIT is very tough to get into. I know of two people from my school that were accepted (didn't go). And let's just say they did some exceptional stuff to get in...

What do you want to study?
 
Originally posted by: placebo139
Originally posted by: AgaBooga
Originally posted by: placebo139
any particular Ivy that you're interested in? each has very different standards. I applied to three of the eight, rejected from one, waitlisted for another, and accepted with full scholarship for the last... as you can see, each college is very different.
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Honestly, I'm interested in MIT, don't flame me or anything for this, please. But I'm seeing that it is going to be very hard. Actually, I have no clue what is really required or needed to get in. If you have a ny idea, please help me out.
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well, first of all, MIT isn't an Ivy League school. The Ivy League schools are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, UPenn, and Cornell. And second of all, MIT is very tough to get into. I know of two people from my school that were accepted (didn't go). And let's just say they did some exceptional stuff to get in...

What do you want to study?
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I'm looking for something related to computers and/or business. I hope to start my own business some day having something to do with computers. I have a good idea what I want it to be related to, but I haven't thought about any specifics just yet. I still have a few years.

 
Ok, I can give you some good advice. I came from a HIGHLY competitive public school; we are ranked between top 5 and top 25 depending on the year.

Over 10% of my class went to Ivy League schools, if you want to get in, here's the list of stuff you need:

- A lot of community service (100+ hours)
- A very high GPA that puts you in the top 10% of your class (at my school this was 3.99 unweighted).
- Take a LOT of AP and honors classes, kids who got into Ivy's took between 7 and 9 AP Classes and about that many honors classes.
- Start studying for your SATs NOW. You will need at least a 1450+ to stand a remote chance these days.
- Extracurricular activities that show your dedication and perseverance in the club: (ie: join a club as a frosh and become president by your senior year).
- Productive Summers including jobs, research, or community service work.
- On top of all of this, you need outstanding recommendations from teachers (in other words, start kissing ass NOW).

To put it into perspective, my own scores were:

- GPA: 3.65 [unweighted]
- SAT: 1470
- 100+ hours community service
- Various Jobs
- 7 APs
- President of Business Club, VP of Marketing Club
- Worked during all of my summers

I did not get in to any Ivy League Schools.

Hope this helps

-Ankur

PS. Not getting into Ivys is not the end of the world. I'm 21 now at a top 35 University and I'm earning very well.
 
Originally posted by: anxman69
Ok, I can give you some good advice. I came from a HIGHLY competitive public school; we are ranked between top 5 and top 25 depending on the year.

Over 10% of my class went to Ivy League schools, if you want to get in, here's the list of stuff you need:

- A lot of community service (100+ hours)
- A very high GPA that puts you in the top 10% of your class (at my school this was 3.99 unweighted).
- Take a LOT of AP and honors classes, kids who got into Ivy's took between 7 and 9 AP Classes and about that many honors classes.
- Start studying for your SATs NOW. You will need at least a 1450+ to stand a remote chance these days.
- Extracurricular activities that show your dedication and perseverance in the club: (ie: join a club as a frosh and become president by your senior year).
- Productive Summers including jobs, research, or community service work.
- On top of all of this, you need outstanding recommendations from teachers (in other words, start kissing ass NOW).

To put it into perspective, my own scores were:

- GPA: 3.65 [unweighted]
- SAT: 1470
- 100+ hours community service
- Various Jobs
- 7 APs
- President of Business Club, VP of Marketing Club
- Worked during all of my summers

I did not get in to any Ivy League Schools.

Hope this helps

-Ankur

PS. Not getting into Ivys is not the end of the world. I'm 21 now at a top 35 University and I'm earning very well.
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anxman69 has hit the nail on the head. Almost everyone I met during frosh year at Cornell last year satisfied every single one of those criteria. Of course, Cornell is special in that we also have some NY state public schools (Agriculture, Industrial and Labor Relations, and Human Ecology) where its half the price and a bit easier to get into if you have NY state residency. But yeah, not going to Ivy League is not the end of the world - you have to ask yourself if you would have been happy pulling long hours just to compete and get a medicore (think 3.0) GPA when you could go to other schools and come out with a much better GPA and more time for things besides school like extracurricular activities. Not to mention the 40k a year tuition + housing costs!
 
I also came from a highly competitive public high school.

I took12 AP classes total (3 soph, 4 junior, 5 senior). Got almost all 5's.
Sophomore year, only had 2 non-honors classes. Junior year, one. Senior year, none.
Full IB diploma crap.

hundreds of hours of community service.
board member in a couple clubs.
summer school every summer, internship after junior year

1500 on SAT I. Close to 800 on all 3 SAT 2's.

Cumulative GPA of 3.90 unweighted.

Rejected from Stanford and Harvard.

Why?
In terms of Extra-curriculars, while I did have several hours of community service, they weren't the in-depth particular to one club kind. I should have been more involved in the clubs I was in.
Academically speaking, I got all A's frosh year, soph year, senior year 1st semester. Junior year I got 6 B's total. (ap chem + honors physics at the same time. schedule from hell... up til 1-2 every night. blah blah)








Cliff Notes on how to get in:
Take as many AP/honors classes as possible
Get A's in almost all those classes.
Spread the B's out.
Join a couple clubs.
Get hella involved in those couple clubs.

and last...
DON'T SCREW UP JUNIOR YEAR
 
I don't think junior year matters that much. Your entire 4 years of high school is weighted evenly.


Have your own television show on FOX or go on a reality show. That is worth extracurricular.
 
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