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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter got into Cornell and several other non-Ivy top schools, but this was several years ago now, so I am not sure how things have changed since then. She had a 2340 SAT, a very good GPA (cannot recall exactly what it was, but close to a 4.0) in the full IB program, and had a few strong extracurricular activities.

One was a selective local leadership program that helps its participants establish service-oriented nonprofit organizations, through which she co-founded a language tutoring program. The other was two summers of NSLI-Y, which is a State Department funded scholarship that sends high school students abroad to study critical languages. The program is selective and requires a somewhat involved application process. I am not sure how well known this is, but it was a great experience for her - she studied a new language that she continued in college, lived with a host family, and had two international experiences on her own. Anecdotally, many of her friends from the program ended up at highly selective colleges, so I think it is well regarded in college admissions.[/quote]

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