What are chances of getting into Harvard?

What are my chances of getting into Harvard/Princeton/University of Chicago/Columbia/UPenn?

  • hey guys i am a highschool freshman, with a weighted GPA of 4.0 i am in Model United Nations Model Congress Future Business Leaders of America (im 2nd in the state of NJ, and I qualified for nationals on june 28) Fed Challenge (I got a letter of recommendation from the fed) Junior Statesmen of America National History Day Debate Team i am in a ton of honors classes and i plan on taking tons of APs I want to know what my chances are of getting into my top picks for college 1. harvard 2. UPenn 3. Columbia 4. University of Chicago 5. Princeton thanks in advance

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    Weighted GPA's are useless at such schools. Your unweighted GPA needs to be at least a 3.8 in rigorous and challenging subjects to have a realistic shot. Even then your odd swill be 20% at best. That's at best - it will probably be worse. Thanks Bill

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I think you have a really good chance.

sach

Well you're doing very good so far! That doesn't matter as much as your SAT/ACT though.

MattMarquis

Just keep it up! If you continue to do more extracurricular activities, maintain a good GPA, do well on your SAT/ACTs then you definitely have a chance!! <33 fifi

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most of those schools only accept students who are really good at football, how are you at football?

AMeddaugh

Honestly, it may look good now. But what really matters is your score on the SAT/ACT tests.

K

Princeton's admissions are based on six factors.. High School GPA SAT scores Athletics Legacy Where you live Your race/ethnicity I think that extracurriculars don't actually give you points in admissions, but will help when they make their final decision. I don't know how they rank applicants in terms of the six factors, but I can say that it's hard. Most people accepted to Princeton scored above a 1450 on the old SATs. My friend scored a 2200 on the new SATs, was in Model Congress, Student Council, Boy's State, Latin Club, National Honor Society, was an Eagle Scout, had varsity letter in 2 sports, took an average of 5 honors classes each year and never got below an A-, was Valedictorian, and he didn't get in to Princeton or Columbia. I also know a kid who was in very few clubs, was barely in the top 10% of his graduating class, but had exceptional SAT scores and he was accepted to Princeton. You need to have pretty much straight A's even including honors classes and take prep courses for SATs and take them more than once if you need to. I don't know anything about the other colleges. There is nothing you can do about your race, location, or legacy factors, which is something that most colleges weigh heavily when deciding. I can't say for sure what the other colleges you listed require.

Joe L

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