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Get admitted to an Ivy League School.
Get ready to deal with a lot of numbers if you plan on applying to an Ivy League college this fall. Be prepared for a lot of surprises as well. Take Jessica, who graduated from a highly regarded suburban high school in North Chicago. Each year, this high school sends on average of one or two students to Harvard and produces nearly 50 National Merit Scholars.
Jessica was number one in her class out of 450 graduating seniors. She scored just short of perfect 800s on her SATs: 775 verbal, 770 math. She scored 750 or higher on each of her three SATII tests, an additional battery of tests required by all major colleges and universities.
Jessica was a powerhouse of academic and extracurricular activity. She was editor of the school newspaper, president of the regional French club during her senior year and president of the State French Club for two years. During both her junior and senior year she earned Thespian Honoree and was an All-State Band Member. She was a member of the girl’s soccer team for four years, in addition to winning a dozen other important awards for extracurricular and volunteer activities. On the Harvard scale of numerical ratings, she was a top candidate for admission.
Yet she was turned down by Harvard. She was turned down by Yale. Princeton placed her on a waiting list. Her second choices all came through with letter of acceptances-Brown, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania. But they were not her first choices. She wanted Harvard or Yale and had prepared her entire high school curriculum around that goal.
