Do I have a chance at the University of Pennsylvania or Brown?

Do you have any state or national swimming awards? That's what it takes to impress the Ivies and for athletics to really matter in your application. If they were interested in you, you likely would have heard by 10th grade, many of my son's friends heard from colleges in 9th grade. Have you contacted coaches? Do it the correct way, you can find out on the athletic website for each college.

Competitive applicants have more than 200+ hours of community service (800+ is common), many start at the summer prior to 9th grade x 4 summers, plus during the school year. Competitive applicants have strong extracurriculars with Depth and Focus in their Passion, and state and national awards.

Two APs is not really competitive, did you take more in your sophomore year? Taking a lot of AP's as a senior is a big mistake. If you haven't easily received 5's on your AP tests, then you should be very careful about how many AP's you take as a senior. While senior GPA is not considered in the same way as freshman through junior, it is still looked at to make sure you are not slacking (so you want some AP's) and that your grades are high. Most colleges look at mid-year senior grades, then end of the year.

The Ivies generally look at unweighted GPA, so 100 would be the maximum. 2100 is too low, you really need 2300+. Most colleges do not SuperScore, some look at all SAT scores, some let you select the one highest SAT score from one sitting. And after having just gone through the process with my son, it is clear that many of the admits are cross-admitted to the other Ivies and Stanford, MIT, like he was. One really has to be at the top academically, and take advantage of all opportunities provided through your school and community, to have a chance at being admitted to an Ivy. (Unless one is a recruited athlete, or something else as wow.)

Use your summer wisely! Study study study for the SAT! Participate in a summer program related to your future major or profession. Do a lot of community service. Work on the CommonApp PDF at the beginning of summer so you can see where you have holes to fill in over the summer.

CommonApp PDF (current version, you will fill out a new version in the fall online): https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/DownloadForms....

Download the Application (student form) Only and College-specific Supplements PDFs. Besides the Common App, most colleges have a supplement to fill out, too, and may require essays, short answers, etc.

New essay prompts: https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/Docs/DownloadF...

Do you really know about Brown and Penn? They are so different! Penn is one of the easier Ivies to be admitted to, but still their admit rate is only 12%.

I don't know how much being Bulgarian will help, but I can guess not much at all if you've been here for a long time. Have you visited recently? Maybe an essay comparing what your life might have been could be interesting. (Depending on your family income was there. I remember a long time ago on a visit to Bulgaria being locked in a theater during one Olympics where they made everyone watch a newscast before the movie, that was filled with totally with false information about communist countries winning when they did not. And the plain clothes police, or whoever they were, questioning the person we were staying with about us).

Good luck!

When you get into the Ivy Leagues, getting accepted is really a crapshoot. Even the most qualified applicants get rejected. Anything could happen. Every year, the acceptance rates drop more and more, and the applicant pool gets tougher and tougher. Not saying you won't get in, you have a good chance, but if it doesn't work out, there are plenty of other awesome colleges that would probably take you

Only 24% of Valedictorian applicants; 16% of applicants with a perfect 800 Sat Math; and 21% of applicants with a perfect Sat Cr; were admitted to Brown for Fall of 2012. Penn is slightly less selective.

http://www.brown.edu/admission/undergraduate/about...

Good Luck!

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