This is just for fun because I’m genuinely curious what people think! Especially because my family has no idea about anything college-wise and I’m the eldest child…
State: CA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Major: English
Scores
ACT: 33 (35E 28M 35R 32S) single sitting
SAT: 800 W, 720 CR, 710 M, C: 2230, single sitting
AP: Mostly 4’s, 5 in English Lang and a few others, have taken eight but will have taken fourteen by end of senior year
SAT II: Literature (750), US History (680 bleh…I’m obviously an English person, and there’s only one English subject test, but I just retook this and am waiting for my score)…WHY OH WHY ARE MOST OF THE SUBJECT TESTS LANGUAGE OR STEM RELATED
Grades
3.97 UW GPA
Weighted GPA: 4.8 (Valedictorian! But I’m at a school where there’s multiple valedictorians)
Class size: 700
EC
LitMag (Pres)
Charity Organization (VP)
Debate (Secretary)
Enviro (Secretary)
Orphan Relief Organization
Statistics Club (VP)
Lead Editor, LA site
Founded nonprofit with one of the biggest companies in country, has earned thousands of dollars which go back to school programs
Top band for flute+piccolo, also play saxophone and piano
Internship at international publishing company this past summer
Spent every summer taking classes (ex. Johns Hopkins AP Calc)
One year of soccer (team captain)
Writing center tutor
School Ambassador
Founder of trash and recycling program @ school
Couple of awards: AP Scholar w/Distinction (missed National by a point!), national poetry award, published a few times, district music composition award, CSF Gold Seal Bearer, English/National/Spanish Honor Societies, Scholar Athlete, National Merit Commended, etc.
Hooks: obvious focus on intended major, obvious strength in intended major, obvious love of intended major (haha), I’m counted as white on the application but I’m 100% of a strange ethnicity which I emphasized (not revealing as to not reveal identity), nonprofit?, most of my activities all are focused on the same types of things (enviro, english, music, service), school recognized as high achieving nationally, English at a STEM focused school
Weaknesses: US History subject test (I took the ACT to kinda make up for it), at extremely competitive school where tons of kids apply to top schools
Letters of Rec:
AP English teacher (100000000000/10, she’s like a mother to me+had her two years in a row+advisor of LitMag
AP Enviro Teacher (9/10, had her for two years in a row, advisor for Enviro club)
Counselor: 10/10, she loves me and has always been impressed by my ability to persevere , during our last meeting she literally listed all the things I’ve done and asked what more colleges could ask for
Common App Essay: 10/10, best thing I’ve ever written, shows genuine love for English and is “written like Hemingway himself could have done it”-my AP English teacher, my AP English teacher started crying over it and said it completely represented me (also, the topic isn’t even sad lol)
Schools applying to: Yale SCEA (my dream for the last two years, you can probably tell from my user), Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, Brown, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Stanford, UPenn, USC, Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UC Irvine, UCSB (I have a UC guaranteed bc top achieving CA resident)
My family never had any clue about college admissions so I was encouraged to apply around. Since I’m an English major and I love writing, I actually have found the college application process quite fun! Woohoo supplements! And every school I’m applying to has fantastic programs, I’m grateful for the opportunity to apply to any of them 
Thanks in advance for your time!
Do you have any need for financial aid, or is your family full pay? If you have any budget constraints your list of schools may change.