Chance me for Harvard Yale Stanford Princeton and merits to other schools!!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello! Thank you in advance to anyone that is able to help me out. I am hoping for advice on any flaws in my application and what you think my chances are of getting into: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Columbia. Also, what do you think my chances are of getting the Jefferson scholarship to USA or Carolina scholars award at unc chapel hill?

GPA: 5.65 W 4.0 UW
Rank:1/710

4 or 5 on almost all my ap exams. I will have taken about 20 when I graduate.

New SAT: 770 R 800 M composite: 1570

Awards: AP Scholar with distinction, Harvard book award, likely candidate for national merit, placing at many debate tournaments but never at the state/national level, and winning local spanish competitions.

EC’S:
Debate President
Foreign Language Honor Society President
Rho Kappa VP
SHAPE service club historian
Youth leadership broward graduate

Volunteer Work:
Internship on a Senate campaign (I did community organizing and recruited over 50 grassroots leaders)
Leadership position on a city comission campaign
Member of city teen political forum
Member of a local executive committee
I haven’t done this yet but I plan to lead a protest against local greyhound racing
I travelled to Peru to build a library for orphans and led a book drive in my community for it.

I am a white male that will not qualify for significant financial aid. I will work my best to have excellent essays, subject test scores,and recs, but those factors aside, what do you think?

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UVA not USA* lol

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Definitely a possibilty! Work on subject tests and writing good essays that show who you are.

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Good grades and test scores! Awards are light and ECs are about average for the applicant pools to these schools. Mission trips abroad are tricky depending on how they are presented since they usually smack of privilege. I heard the Director of Admissions at Yale (not the Dean) say that whenever she sees someone do a service trip abroad, she often wonders why they couldn’t find something meaningful to do in their local neighborhood.

You’re a competitive applicant but the competition is fierce so work hard on your applications to present a coherent narrative about who you are and what’s important to you. Recommendations will also be key for you. Teachers will hopefully talk about your character, what matters to you, and your leadership abilities and not just your academic prowess which AOs can see already see from your transcripts.

Good luck!