<p>I think the OP has kind of put the rabbit into the hat a bit. If a kid really had that list of ECs, plus enthusiastic teacher recommendations, plus essays that felt like they were written by a real person, not a robot, both GPA (above a certain level) and SATs (ditto) would be largely irrelevant. I’m trying to figure out what possible area of weakness that student has? History? Using one foreign language on a test when she was supposed to use the other?</p>
<p>If anything, I would tone it down a bit. It feels like too much, and one tends to discount each element because of it.</p>
<p>But rather than obsessing about ECs, grades, and tests, she should work on writing really fine essays, and making certain she knows which teachers (a) view her in a positive light, and (b) write effective recommendations. And also . . . stop thinking in terms of “one of the Ivys (sic)”. The Ivies are too different from one another, and there are too many other high-quality universities for a student like this, for that attitude to be anything but unattractive and undermining of this student’s quality.</p>