Do I have a shot at Harvard or Middlebury?

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<p>Hello everyone,
I am a korean who has been studying abroad in India for almost 15 years.
I spent the last sing in a British, international school.
I took 10 IGCSE's.</p>

<p>English Literature A*
English Language B
German B
Religious studies A
Geography B
Math A*
Add math A
Biology A*
Chemistry A*
Physics A*</p>

<p>I then took the AS and A2 in two years.
Bio A
Chem A
Physics A
Math A
General studies B
Also, if worthy of being noted, the average percentage was 91, with each being at least equal to 90, which would have been A* grades excluding GS. Therefore I sort of expect decent recommendations.</p>

<p>Got an SAT score of 2170.
CR 700, WR 740, Math 730 (my highest was 780)
Got an SAT 2 Biology score of 750, Chem score of 800, Math2c score of 780.
A toefl score of 112 (which i did not submit)
I have been told I was the top in school among 43 students. </p>

<p>My EC was playing tennis for the school for 5 years, being the captain for the final year.
Played field Hockey, where we won once and came second a lot of times.
Threw Javelin, discus came 1st or 2nd inside school competitions.
Swam freestyle a few times.
Did a few community services.
Played soccer/football in std 10 and won that year.
Captain for badmiton in the final year.
Sang for a school christian band and for a few student run school events.</p>

<p>My friends went to Cambridge, Imperial, US airforce academy etc.. so it's a pretty good school that I went to...
Don't know about friends who are going to Aussie.</p>

<p>I've applied to Harvard, Middlebury, Dartmouth, Amherst, Brown and Wash U in st louis and also to NUS (Singapore).<br>
Do you think I would get into at least one? Please, I'm a little restless.</p>

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<p>Well you definetly have good shot at middlebury (though the competition there is stiff due to it’s reputation among ints), for harvard I’m missing the “edge”. The certain thing that makes you stand out. Your academics seem nice and in order, but the top Ivy league usually use their few international spaces to pick the absolute foreign elite in their respective fields.</p>

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<p>I can’t really offer any input regarding the US schools. With your IGCSE and A’Level results, though, getting into NUS shouldn’t be a problem.</p>

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<p>could you tell us if you got into any of them later on? that would be great!
well i guess you are a really good students and you like all kinds of sports but what’s the one thing in live you love more than anything else? what do you want to achieve in life? if you haven’t written about that in you application, it’ll be hard to get into harvard etc.</p>