Chance a current junior for UCs + Ivies?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Background: Asian female from a competitive state, attending a hyper-competitive, predominantly Asian private prep school that’s extremely STEM-oriented. Income bracket is high.

And I realize how ignorant I am of colleges outside of the Ivies or the UCs, so I’m completely open to any college suggestions regardless of brand name, as long as I think I’ll be a good ‘fit’ for the school.

GPA UW: ~3.95
GPA W: 4.33

36C ACT (35s on E, S / 9 on essay)
SAT II: Chinese (800) Math 2 (800) Chem (780)

APs: Chinese, WHAP, Chem, CS - all 5s
Taking AP stats, bio, calc, ush

major awards: ncte nominee?, youngarts finalist in writing, likely nmsf? nothing huge right now

extracurriculars:

  • creative writing - i only started this at the tail end of sophomore year, and i’ve been submitting to a lot of contests in november and i’ll submit to scholastic for the first time ever as well. i’m on the staff of 2 nat’l lit mags, i’ve had ~3 publications, teen ink editor’s choice + print publication, winner of 1 local contest & recognized by another regional one
  • computer science - president next yr for the computing club, wistem officer, i’ve won the gold presidential service award for working with gwc, i edit for our school’s research publication, i’m a website developer for a lit mag. i interned at a computational bio lab this summer and i’m taking post-ap cs topics at school.
  • debate: few minor awards, nothing special
  • piano: passed level 10
  • nhs, snhs, ap scholar w/ honors

Thanks in advance, everyone!

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GPA and test scores are fine, but your ECs are lacking, for top tier UCs and Ivies. Your admission will strongly depend on your essays. Start working on them now.

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You should get into all UCs and you look on track to get into the lower Ivy’s. You look like a quality students for schools like Vanderbilt, Northwestern, WashU, Duke, and Georgia tech among others, which are all quality schools as good as the lower ranked Ivy’s or better, yet lack the “ivy brand”. You should know Ivy schools aren’t all the best. The Ivy League was originally a sports league and has absolutely nothing to do with acadmemics, they just happen to all have quality academics.