<p>Orange, from doing alumni interviews for Harvard, I have learned that I can never correctly assess anybody’s chance of admission.</p>
<p>Your grades and test scores, as I said, keep you in the running. Write excellent essays. I hope your teacher recommendations will be glowing and say something substantive about you, but all that is kind of beyond your control.</p>
<p>Good luck. The deck is stacked against everybody at these colleges, but you never know.</p>