@NotVerySmart @BabylonBabylon Sorry to Hijack this thread. What my research over these highly selective schools is that too many APs will actually harm or trigger your application. It’s like adding too much of sugar to sweeten the sweet dish results disaster. Secondly, even after you got 3.4 GPA, adding your AP, as per your assumption you might be around Top 10% of your class. Hence, for a while if we neglect your AP we can assume average GPA of students at your school.
Any first time application reader, will find you a well-rounded student but nothing different to be of spike. Your Recommendation for Congresswoman might help you showcase your utilization of your time, First two Harvard and Princeton are infamous to reject large number of perfect scorers, so if you think large number of AP will help you, I believe it will hurt your application.
It is not exactly what initiative have you taken, it’s actually about impact that you made with your initiatives. I would warmly accept a candidate who made an impact or actually interacts with his surroundings, than accepting the one who does for the sake of doing.
One question, did you do all the listed activities in last two years? I think so.