College counselor said that i could apply to strong colleges such as brown/cornell, but i'm not sure

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Little bit of an update: Just got my March SAT scores back, 1500 790 Math 710 Reading and Writing. Unfortunately I did very poorly on the essay, 6/4/6 out of 8/8/8. Is this poor essay score going to affect me a lot?