Please give me advice on how to improve my application and if there are any red flags! Thank you so much. 
Ethnicity: Korean, Geography: Guam (lol)
Extracurriculars:
Sophomore Year: Best of Category in Materials Science at ISEF, EUCYS Experiential Award from ISEF to Ireland, and an ASU Scholarship Special Award. Prior to that won Best of Category at Taiwan International Science Fair. Won my Region for Lincoln Douglas Debate and 9 Hole Men’s Golf (Captain), Taught Underprivileged Kids Math and English, Will be going on Missions Trip to a Micronesian Island (To translate Korean to English for Doctors), Participated in Quiz Bowl
Freshman Year (Didn’t do much lol) : Men’s Golf, Quiz Bowl, Taught Underprivileged Kids Math and English, won a couple chess tournaments idk if that’s relevant
Gradesss:
I went to private school for freshman year and transferred to public school. (Did not take SAT or ACT yet but I’m preppin)
9th Grade (3.67UW or 93.3) : 86 Algebra 2 87 English 9 90 Spanish 1 90 Lifeskills 100 Debate Half Credit 100 PE Half Credit 90 Biology 1, 92 Geography (Didn’t manage my time lol how did I clutch it out with so many 90s XD)
10th Grade (4.0 UW or 104.5) : (So here it gets a bit complicated new school calculates GPA solely on weighted percentage and adds 10 for honors) 110 AP Gov Half Credit 100 American Gov Half Credit (I dropped AP Government kind of complicated if it’s important I can elaborate if it would be a red flag) 107 Honors Precalc 110 Honors Chemistry 110 English Honors 99 Basic Design 96 Spanish
Class Rank: Right now it’s around rank 50/349 but I can get 10/349 with a 100 cumulative average by Senior Year
I will be applying REA to Stanford, Ivies, UCS, UMich and ASU
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Your extracurriculars are okay but I would be ready to write an essay on at least one of them when applying to the Ivies and Stanford. They require you to write an essay on one of your extracurriculars usually. Your academics are okay but I’d be ready to explain yourself for two reasons. #1 is that you didn’t have a great GPA your Freshman year. #2 is that you dropped AP Government (that looks very bad). If you want an actual chance on the Ivies and Stanford, it’s not very good. Although, if you maintain a 4.0 UW GPA then you stand a better chance. Work on your extracurriculars a bit. Also, in the extra-information section of the Common Application, explain what went on with your freshman GPA and why you dropped AP Government. That part is crucial. Otherwise, the admissions officers will think you were not able to handle the AP class and wasn’t ready for high-level learning in your freshman year. Also, you need to take your ACT and SAT early to get an estimate of what your lowest potential score could be. If you get anything below a 33 on the ACT or 1500 on the SAT, you aren’t going to be a great applicant. If you are able to score well on those, you stand a chance.
Thank you for your advice! Are my extracurriculars just ok? I won Best of Category at ISEF and about AP Government I dropped it even though I had a perfect score, will colleges still see that as a major red flag?
This is my reasoning for changing from AP Gov to American Gov. Our teacher announced he would retire mid 2nd semester. We had option to keep taking the AP but the school forced us to change teachers. However, I truly valued our open discussion and debate of political opinions and didn’t want to give that up just to keep the AP credit. Thinking back, I didn’t really consider the impact it would have on my college application. 
What do you want to study/do in college?
How are you deciding that these are the best schools for what you want?
Also, can you afford any college you like, or are there financial constraints?
Not too sure about my major probably materials science, I want a school with really passionate and at the same time laidback student body that has an amazing engineering program and research support. My family is under 60K.
A lot of the Ivies don’t even have specialized engineering fields like Materials, although the ones that do are very good. UPenn and Cornell outrank Stanford in this field. Northwestern and Johns Hopkins are also in the top 10… as is UMichigan, but Michigan doesn’t meet full need for OOS students, so it might not be a good financial choice for you.
Consider Lehigh (also top 10 in materials, but not quite as much of a super-reach as the others). They’re one of the few US schools to treat Asians as an under-represented minority, and they have a fully-funded fly-in diversity weekend. (Not sure if they’d fly you from Guam, but doesn’t hurt to try, eh?) And they meet full documented need.
Case Western Reserve is another great choice which is very strong in Materials and most other STEM fields, yet isn’t Ivy-level difficult to get into, and meets full need.
For affordable public options, Guam is part of the Western Undergraduate Exchange. University of Utah and Washington State U. are two excellent schools that offer Materials Engineering and that would give you discounted tuition and very possibly merit aid as well. You can search others by major here http://wue.wiche.edu/search1.jsp
It’s too early to tell what your chances will be at the super-reach schools; in the meantime, try to get to know some of the potential low-reach, match, and safety schools that are available to you.
your GPA seems kinda low but if you boost it I think you’d stand a chance for Ivies. For LD random question is Guam pretty progressive (do they have K’s, theory, spreading). Basically, follow IvyDreams advice (i’m a junior too lol so my advice might not be great).
It’s super lay here lol. No spreading, no K’s or Theory all about clash, value and evidence.
Is my gpa that low for Stanford?