<p>OK, let's try this. Let's keep ethnicity and gender as unknowns and tinker with other aspects of this student's application profile. </p>
<p>Using the profile laid out in the OP, how low could this student's GPA and rank get before the application was negatively impacted?</p>
<p>Using the profile laid out in the OP (with the 4.0 and #1 rank), if the various SAT's were in the 780 range, would that make any difference? How much lower could they get?</p>
<p>And just for fun, let's say the student drops one of the elite science/math activities right after 10th grade. Would that make any difference, given the strength of the applicant in general?</p>