High school sophomore - advice please?

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<p>Hi all, this is my first CC thread.</p>

<p>I'm a high school sophomore and I moved here during freshman year from Taiwan. I would appreciate it if any of you can give me advice because I don't know what are my chances of getting into Ivys. I think I would enjoy Pton's environment but I don't consider myself a perfect scorer.</p>

<p>This is what I've got so far:
-AP Euro, honors classes since Freshman year, planning to take AP lit, probably chem or bio, physics, AB AP calc, etc
-school orchestra, string jam (school chamber music), played in Schonbrunn Palace, Carnegie Hall
-NASA Youth Art Space Competition criterion award, artwork published in Spring, also Summer, Arts Festival, Strangers Project, Tin Box Project, Zazzle seller, Teenink, planning on doing Scholastic Awards soon, Congressional Arts Competition, and hopefully National History Day
-i got a jv mvp for vball last year but i don't think it means anything, (i'm thinking about rejoining vball junior year but I'm afraid that the workload would be too much, what do you think) i enjoy bball, it's my main sport, got a coach's award last year but thats only jv, but getting better
-i'm sure i would get more than 100 hours of volunteering, i did 50 hours in Taiwan bc i feel obligated to do so, and the rest are spent in elderly day care center, tutoring, local hospital
-would attend summer pre-college programs, and internships</p>

<p>I would do more in the near future. I know that quality exceeds quantity but how exactly do you define quality? Thank you for your time.</p>

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<p>If you do extracurricular activities that you enjoy, leadership positions/awards will naturally follow. Make sure you are doing the SAT question of the day.
Don’t think about college too much. You’ll be doing enough of that your junior and senior years!</p>

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<p>It’s true you still have lots of time. I agree with the above poster about focusing on the activities that you like to do. Instead of trying to fit into some kind of mold to get accepted to Princeton (or any other ivy league institution), do what you love and show a passion for something. That will get you much farther.</p>