Your EC’s and GPA are obviously very good; I’d say you can easily get into most schools on the list (Ivies are a crapshoot but your chance is probably higher than most) and I think you should definitely retake the ACT. The science section is pretty subjective but it’s definitely improvable with consistent practice. Good luck!
Thank you! I see a bunch of people on the Yale SCEA & Penn ED results thread accepted with 33’s, so I’m hoping I should be fairly okay regardless… I am retaking in April, but just in case. @grandlv
Thank you! 
@ambitionsquared
Your EC’s impress me! It sounds so interesting and I can see where your passion lies. I guess it kinda depends on where you go to high school (ex: Whether PENN accepts a lot of only 1 or 2), but I’d say you have a good chance like everyone else (not bound to get in, but probably defer/waitlist? id be surprised if u got rejected). The only ones I think you’d have lower chances are are Gtown (they care a lot about GPA and test score), Yale, and Princeton (because those two are crapshoots for EVERYONE). Best of luck!
I’d say Penn usually accepts only one or two, but not too many people typically apply there. 2/3 of the most recent valedictorians have matriculated at Penn, actually! @hungrihippo
Oh also, not sure about this, but I heard Emory is huge on interest and waitlists/rejects students who seem to have Emory as a “second choice” or “backup”. I was told by my college counselor, Naviance, and the proof of my grades/SAT that Emory would be one of the easiest schools I’d get into (the average stats from my school are pretty low for those who get into Emory-- not bashing Emory at all when I say it would be one of the “easiest”, just saying based on scattergram and past acceptances from my school), and I got rejected 
It was a possible for me (deemed by counselor and naviance, not me), while my friends with lower stats got accepted. So just remember that sometimes schools may not take you if you don’t show interest or are “overqualified”-- I know this was very confusing and discouraging to me when I got rejected!
I’m actually not positive about Emory… I’m only a junior, so everything is temporary haha. I love their strength in writing, obviously, but I’m not sure I want to go that far South. @hungrihippo
Penn ED: Accepted
Penn RD: Accepted
Yale: Waitlisted
Princeton: Rejected
Brown: Accepted
Harvard: Waitlisted
BU: Accepted
SUNY: Accepted
Emory: Waitlisted(Only because I don’t know if your personality would fit that school.)
Georgetown: Accepted
Vassar: Accepted
Wellesley: Accepted
All the best!!!
@tennisbuddy Thank you! Best of luck to you as well
You have a lot that stands out about you, and I think colleges will like that. What caught my eye the most was the internship you had with the Guggenheim, and the fact that you organized 35+ people across the globe for a literary magazine. All of that is very impressive! I think because of your stats and what you have gotten yourself involved in, you’ll be an extremely qualified candidate for all your schools. Although Ivies are a struggle for anyone, I think you’ll be able to get into at least one! And every other school I’m sure you’ll get into assuming not much changes with your grades.
Also, do you still wrote for the Progressive Teen? I was just added to the staff!
I haven’t written an article in a little while, but yes! I did one fairly recently about Mike Pence. @MaddyP
Penn: Accept
Yale: Waitlist
Princeton: Reject
Brown: Accept
Harvard: Waitlist/Reject
Boston University: Accept
SUNY Geneseo: Accept
Emory: Accept
Georgetown: Accept
congrats on all your achievements!! 
i would say apply penn ED, just bc u definitely seem like that was be a likely accept; though, if you’re set on Yale SCEA definitely don’t let anything stop you (H/Y/P are harder to predict just because they are so random).
chance back? http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1979288-chance-me-harvard-uchicago-yale-wellesley.html#latest
Thank you! Best of luck. @crimsonbleeding2022
For those who have been following this… I GOT A 35 ON MY APRIL ACT! (All of my subscores stayed the same, but I went from a 27 to a 34 on science!)
Congrats! That’s a great score
On a different note, I was “recruited” by the KWH at Penn for my ED application. I was deferred and then rejected at Wharton. Perhaps it was just because of the insane competition for spots at Wharton, but I do believe the KWH help doesn’t help you in a significant way since they do this for upwards of 100 applicants. There are a handful of applicants who get some sort of higher level recruiting by the KWH but I’m not too familiar with how that process works. Just wanted to let you know
Very true, but I just think it would provide a nice boost because I’m applying as an English major with a clear focus on the subject. I have a very close friend who was accepted ED to Wharton and was recruited by KWH, so I do think it still helps, but I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you. @doorrealthe
KWH definitely helps to an extend, 100 people is not a lot, but that said there are many different factors the admissions committee considers and it is possible that you can be recruited by KWH but rejected from Penn.
Definitely. I also wonder if there are different advocacy-acceptance rates for English majors vs. applicants to non-CAS schools (or other non-humanities disciplines), but there’s no way to know. @Penn95
You have a good writing spike. That’s what these colleges want to see. Make sure that you have good test scores, and take the literature SAT II test. Other than that, you are good to go.
I don’t know if I’m going to take the lit exam because I feel that it superficially tests an area that shouldn’t be tested that way – I did a practice test and really didn’t like the structure, and feel like I’ve shown sufficient depth in writing through my other scores & ECs. I think I am going to take US, Math 2 & Spanish instead. I bumped up the ACT two points, so I think those are really the main things missing from my application right now. Thanks! @collegeboundprogrammer