Am I competitive for any Ivies and other elite schools?

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Hi I’m kind of freaking out about college app season and just wanted to see if any of you could look at my chances. I’m thinking about going into secondary education whether it’s English or history (and trust me my mom is a teacher and has already tried to steer me down another path) so it could also be helpful if you could drop some info for that or good schools to look into. I’m looking at some elite schools like Brown, Northwestern and U of Chicago (along with other match and safety schools) so if you guys could help me understand my chances with that! PS if any of you guys could help me with my essay choice it would be greatly appreciated.

White/Asian Male from Wisconsin
ACT-34 (superscore 35). Am taking again so hopefully I can hit a 35, I’ve taken it twice already and gotten a 34 both times.
APs- AP HuG (5), WHAP (5), AP Stats (5), AP Physics 1 (3), AP Macro (4), AP Calc BC (4) with AB subscore (5), APUSH (5), AP Lang (5), AP Micro (5)
Senior Course Load- Cultural Anthropology (course at a local university), Calc 3 (course at a local university), AP Gov, AP Bio, Regular English (because of my college classes I couldn’t take AP Lit or AP Spanish), Gym
Current Rank- 4/295 (so top 5%)
GPA- 3.83 (UW), 4.25 (W)

Recs: Both of my teachers writing them feel strongly about my academic strength and character and I have no doubt they will be good.

Essay: One of two things-

  1. Struggling with ideas of masculinity since I rarely see my dad and have a weak relationship with him. I would also tie in being gay as adding to my masculinity struggles
    2.Growing up in a very strict household where my mom monitored everything after my two older sisters both got pregnant in high school and dropped out.

EC: Part of my school’s Academic Decathlon team and we are competitive (one hour of our schedule is used for this) and we’ve always gone to state and scored highly and I’ve won bunch of different awards for it, Spanish Club, Varsity Swim freshman and sophomore years, Vice President of my NHS chapter, and a few more clubs that aren’t really worth mentioning. Ever since sophomore year I’ve held a job (Catering Company to Panera to a gas station).

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Your stats are nice. Have you ever taken the SAT subject tests? May want to look into that.

Your ECs are all very localized. If you are thinking of an university like Brown, have you ever had any national level recognization? If not, that’s fine and you can emphasize on state level awards. Both of your essay topics are GREAT. They show character and personality. I think you should write a draft of both and see which one really exemplifies who you are.

No AP Lit “might” be a problem considering your dedication towards English and history. But, cultural anthropology will probably even it out. I think with strong recs and your extremely strong essay topics you have a decent chance. But, of course I’m no admission officer. Just don’t worry about your chances. Focus on crafting the best possible college app.

(Also, are you a good enough of a swimmer where you think you might be able to be recruited to a college?)