Chances for Ivy?

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<p>I have a 4.6/5.0 GPA, all honors classes my fresh/soph years and all APs my junior year and this year. I have a 32/36 on my ACT, I'm taking my SAT in November. I don't have too many extracurricular: a lot of volunteering (tutoring kids, volunteering at a daycare, and at two different libraries including the NYPL) along with creative writing workshops I take, the school newspaper and literary magazine, and I started my own independent magazine when I was 16. I also completed three years worth of high school in 14 months, as in I did my freshman, sophomore, and junior years in 14 months. Also, the volunteering I only started about 4 months ago.</p>

<p>My school doesn't rank. I go to a private, online college prep school so my education is really independent.
My SAT subject tests were History (720), Literature (780), and Math 1 (700).
Like I said I look all AP classes for my junior courses and this year I am.
These are the classes:
Frosh
French 1
Honors Biology
Honors English 1
Honors World History
Honors Algebra I
2 Electives
Soph
Honors English II
Honors Chemistry
Honors Algebra II
French II
AP US History
2 electives
Junior
Spanish I
AP English Language
Honors Physics
AP Government and Politics
H Economics
H Trig/Pre-Cal
1 Elective
Senior
AP English Lit
AP Calculus BC
AP Physics B
Spanish II
Geography
2 Electives</p>

<p>All of the electives are to satisfy my school's graduation elective requirements. </p>

<p>What do you think my chances are at an Ivy? My top choices are Princeton, Yale, and Brown.</p>

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<p>I really can’t say because your educational background is atypical, but please, please, please don’t be one of those people who wants to get into any Ivy. They have nothing more in common than any other sports league, which is all the Ivy League is. Asking your chances for every Ivy is like asking for your chances at ACC schools: pointless. They have extremely different environments, with really their only similarity being commitment to academic excellence, which is hardly specific.</p>

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<p>I’m not trying to get into ANY Ivy, I’m only applying to Princeton Brown and Yale as Ivies, the rest are all different types of schools that offer the type of educational environment and opportunities I’m looking for. The main reason I want to go to an Ivy is because I want to go into global human rights and education, and a school like that will give me the right connections to really make positive changes.
And I guess you’re right, it is pointless. I could have perfect academic, extracurricular, and testing records but it still wouldn’t be a sure thing.
Thanks for the reply though.</p>