Chances at Brown/Yale/Cornell?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi all,
I have a bit of a unique profile with my extracurriculars and such and would appreciate some opinions on my chances at getting into my dream schools.

SAT: Didn’t take.
ACT: 35 (35 E, 35 M, 36 R, 34 S)
SAT II: 800 chemistry, 800 biology M, 720 Japanese
High school classes: AP is not offered. Full IB Diploma: HL History, HL English, HL Biology, HL Chemistry, SL Japanese, SL Mathematics, TOK
Major/minor awards: Honor roll, head’s list, Japanese departmental award. Biggest award was 1st place at Wisconsin Japan Bowl plus qualification for Nationals in DC with a sponsorship from Mazda. 8th place at nationals

Extracurriculars:
-Youth leadership intern at Concordia Language Villages’ Japanese camp. This is a language immersion summer camp for 5 weeks and I was allowed only to speak in Japanese for most hours in a day to campers
-State and National Japan Bowl, as detailed above.
-School trip to Japan for 3 weeks
-Two week camper and four week camper at the language immersion camp described above
-Founder and leader of Japanese Language and Culture club at my school, 12th grade
-7 years of martial arts+a black belt
-8 years of curling
-Running varsity cross country for 3 out of 4 years in HS
-Member of Amnesty International at my school in 11th grade and leader in 12th
-Hospital volunteering (roughly 45 hours)

Race/ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
State applying from: Wisconsin
School type: TINY private school
Majors: Will indicate interest in East Asian Studies, Linguistics, Chemistry

Other notes: My school is VERY small. It’s pre-k through 12th and there are less than 500 students in total. As such, many clubs or ECs available at other schools aren’t available at mine. For example, NHS, any subject-based honors society, Debate, speech, Key Club, Quiz bowl/academic competition teams, and science olympiad are all unavailable. Along with this they don’t really give out many academic awards.

Thank you for your input!

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Forgot to put GPA. Unweighted is around 3.9 and weighted is around 4.2

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You have a very interesting profile. If your essays are good, I think any of these schools could accept you simply because of your niche application. I don’t think many non-Asian students choose to pursue East Asian studies and have the ECs to back their claim up. Your ECs do come across as a little limited, but I think admissions officers will see that you worked with almost everything you got. I think you have relatively good chances at these schools, and any other Ivy or top 20

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Okay, thank you for the feedback.

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@lucasevans1234 I d say rather good chances for Brown and Cornell, especially given that you are applying from an underrepresented state. Yale is of course a crapshoot for most applicants who are not geniuses/prodigies but i think your accomplishments in Japanese will probably make you stand out in the Yale pool as well.