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This is for all the 1600/4.0 kids who are constantly posting "what are my chances?" when they know them already. To make them see what it takes to be a lock at HYP, I thought we could create a perfect applicant.


Alright, I'll start:

1600 SAT I
800, 800, 800 SAT IIs
5s on at least 10 APs
Nationally ranked in at least 1 sport.


Add other stats, extra curriculars, and details as you see fit.

By Julians (Julians) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 10:50 am: Edit

Maybe an Eagle Scout?

Intel Finalist?

TASP/RSI Attendee?

Although really, those stats + nationally ranked in a sport will do it. A guy from my HS had a 1500 and was 4th in the nation in the 5000 meter run, and easily got in everywhere.

By Elizabeth22 (Elizabeth22) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 10:52 am: Edit

Good additions. Keep them coming.

And I know he doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, but we might as well make him that way, just for fun.

By Anjin (Anjin) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 11:04 am: Edit

he must be a Native American.

By Imapaki102 (Imapaki102) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 04:04 pm: Edit

he must be able to stick a camel through the eye of a needle...

oh and...he has to be a spelling bee champion...a BLIND ONE!

By Elizabeth22 (Elizabeth22) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 04:07 pm: Edit

A blind spelling bee champion...now that's a new one .

I forgot to add that he's valedictorian and has a 4.0 unweighted.

What else?

By Logitech1087 (Logitech1087) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 04:13 pm: Edit

rescued orphans from a burning building

By Pinkearmufs (Pinkearmufs) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 04:15 pm: Edit

has published articles in the new england journal of medicine

By Madness (Madness) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 04:33 pm: Edit

native american eagle scout from north dakota or some other random underrepresented state.

By Blah1111 (Blah1111) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 10:36 pm: Edit

alumnus child of every college and university in the world (explaining that would make for a very interesting/unique EC).

By Pkit (Pkit) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 10:41 pm: Edit

elizabeth22 forgot to mention that his 4.0 unweighted is on a 3.0 scale and his school made a special exception for him

By Blah1111 (Blah1111) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 10:47 pm: Edit

Yeah, and while he was taking the SAT, he had the flu/bubonic plague/AIDS/athlete's foot (which he cured and was subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine).

By Delacroix (Delacroix) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 10:48 pm: Edit

Has an exclusive patent on his own invention. Selected to intern at the White House, the Federal Reserve, and the National Institute of Health. Published a novel, a play, and a poetry anthology. Has a billionaire father and mother who could pay his way into the Ivies even without his perfect stats and ECs. Won nationals for every instrument there are competitions for. LOL this is fun!

By Angeldesignpro (Angeldesignpro) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 10:52 pm: Edit

Has HER own fan club, with all funds going to charity.

By Duke3d4 (Duke3d4) on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 11:23 pm: Edit

This is all you need

Son of Michael Jordan or other black celebrity


URM Black
4.0 UW
All AP
1600
800/800/800/800/800 SAT II's
You are president of all clubs
You invented a cure cancer
You invented a cure for AIDS
Your dad, Michael Jordan, donated 100 million to the Ivy's.
You play basketball and you have an average point of 50 per high school game, and your HS team won nationals and state continuously. You are a recruitable Basketball player and everyone in the nation knows you are the best basketball player in high school, thanks to commercials by your Dad, Michael Jordan.

Your dad's friends, over 30 pro basketball players, bribe the admissions officers.


And that is how you go to an Ivy school.

By Elizabeth22 (Elizabeth22) on Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 02:31 pm: Edit

Hahaha, great additions.

I'm thinking we should add some more prestigious competitions....Intel, maybe? AIME?

By Skiowad (Skiowad) on Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 04:43 pm: Edit

Duke, Michael Jordan and a bunch of other famous basketball players make a commericial for "Insert" University for free saying how great it is.
Speak every language ever spoken.
Teach a polar bear every language ever spoken.
Tutor a young Navajo.
Bring peach unto the world.
Student body president and a 36 on ACT(how did we forget these).
Rescued puppies and kittens from a burning building
Found a way to make unlimited amounts of food and medicine
Discovered Atlantis and 9 new Galaxies, which he visits on vacation with his new spaceship.
Started 1000 major colonies on his new galaxies' planets

By Skiowad (Skiowad) on Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 04:43 pm: Edit

Ooops, I meant peace unto the world. Although peaches are good too.

By Irock1ce (Irock1ce) on Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 06:28 pm: Edit

you are on the IMO U.S. Team, scoring perfect. You're also on the U.S. Physics, Chemistry and Biology teams and have scored perfectly on all of those. You're the #1 Football and Basketball player in the country(NFL and NBA are all trying to recruit you)and immigrated here when you were 17 and is a first generation college. Your parents died in West Africa cause of AIDS and you floated here on a tree. Intel, Siemens-Westinghouse Winner. Nobel Prize winner after finding the cure of Cancer and AIDS.

By Tropicanabanana (Tropicanabanana) on Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 07:51 pm: Edit

Scratch all that..he was the idiot son of an American president. That's it.

By Duke3d4 (Duke3d4) on Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 08:04 pm: Edit

Or how about something I got from a movie, armaggeddon.

All you need:

A comet is coming down to kill all human existence on planet Earth as we know it. You somehow, create a formula to stop the comet and save the ENTIRE WORLD.

Let's see College's reject history's only world saver. DON'T THINK SO!!!!

By Duke3d4 (Duke3d4) on Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 08:06 pm: Edit

ACtually, you probably wouldn't need to go to college.

You could live off donations. Just go on TV and say "Please donate money to me, I saved the world"

You'll be a trillionaire in months, living on a tropical island with the world's hottest women.

By Zephyr (Zephyr) on Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 08:45 pm: Edit

NO NO NO

this person took every AP AND IB ever offered self-study and got 5's on them all

every SAT-II = 800

dominated the SAT so much they got bonus points = 1610

ALREADY has a wing at Harvard named after him/her for their contributions to biotechnology.

Has been touted as a possible vice-presidential pick.

By Elizabeth22 (Elizabeth22) on Monday, July 26, 2004 - 02:04 pm: Edit

I love this- what else?

By Cooldude (Cooldude) on Monday, July 26, 2004 - 02:37 pm: Edit

He owns collegeboard, leaks the papers and then informs all the schools about *those* who cheated and gets accepted. btw his scores by default:
1600
800 x 22
5 (AP) x 34

By Caustic_Juggler (Caustic_Juggler) on Monday, July 26, 2004 - 06:43 pm: Edit

He won his first Nobel Prize in physics at the tender age of 10 and his first Oscar at 15.

By Tlaktan (Tlaktan) on Monday, July 26, 2004 - 06:51 pm: Edit

President of Boys Nation.

By Duke3d4 (Duke3d4) on Monday, July 26, 2004 - 06:55 pm: Edit

You are all wrong. My armaggeddon idea is still the #1 most chance for admissions at top colleges. Seriously if you save the world, YOU CAN GO/DO ANYTHING. You can run for president and win vs that idiot bush.

By Skiowad (Skiowad) on Monday, July 26, 2004 - 07:55 pm: Edit

Yes Duke, you are all powerful and wise. We must never doubt you.
So what, you think a kid who won a nobel prize in physics at the age of 10 wouldn't have a pretty good shot at beating bush or getting a lot of money? (Or any of the other ideas)

By Duke3d4 (Duke3d4) on Monday, July 26, 2004 - 09:18 pm: Edit

Hmm who would be better


Kid who won nobel prize in physics at 10

High School student using his brains to create a formula and thus SAVE THE WORLD?!?!

Puh leez, mine wins by far. 6 billion people will be chanting my guy's name.

By Duke3d4 (Duke3d4) on Monday, July 26, 2004 - 09:18 pm: Edit

CHANT AND SING PRAISES!

Who knows, he might become the next Jesus Christ.

By Zik (Zik) on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 12:15 am: Edit

child of a secret love affair between two of the admissions officers

By Dreamsicle (Dreamsicle) on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 02:02 am: Edit

ya know, i always wished i were a gay orphan eskimo from alaska with some native american blood who could weave baskets, play football, and sing like mariah carey.

By Chatterjoy87 (Chatterjoy87) on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 02:21 am: Edit

The 28th Amendment just passed so that SHE (props to angeldesignpro) could possibly become the next president, started her own minority party that is quickly outstripping the GOP, is the darling of every foreign dignitary and world leader former or current, memorized the Constitutions of all the countries that have one and in the original language by the age of five, nationally ranked in triathlon and tae kwon do, plays chess chews gum wiggles ears writes poetry brews ale and quotes from gone with the wind simultaneously... did I mention she also has great teacher recommendations?

By Blah1111 (Blah1111) on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 02:29 am: Edit

Lock for the Ivies = Omnipotent Deity?

By Chatterjoy87 (Chatterjoy87) on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 02:33 am: Edit

o come now, blah1111, we want these to be realistic! ;-)

By Blah1111 (Blah1111) on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 02:35 am: Edit

Haha, was that slam on religion intended?

By Chatterjoy87 (Chatterjoy87) on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 02:46 am: Edit

slam on religion? well it was unintentional, but I don't think Allah, Yahweh, God, etc. would really be concerned with locking into HYP

By Wrathofgod64 (Wrathofgod64) on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 03:22 am: Edit

has to have created another universe from one particle of dust