<p>my intention isn’t to discourage you. you are asking for your chances at these schools. the answer is, you will not fare well.</p>
<p>your ACT score is under the 10th percentile at quite of a few of those schools, particularly columbia, penn, stanford, yale, and harvard, and your record in highschool is poor. those two things coupled with the fact that you are only in your first year of college is a recipe for disaster.</p>
<p>it’s awesome that you have a unique extracurricular activity and you are half-black, but the #1 thing that these schools will look at is not your soft factors, but your academic ability</p>