please help!!! am i reaching too high???

<p>do i even have a chance at these schools, mainly brown..?? </p>

<p>brown - early decidion
princeton
johns hopkins
yale
cornell
lehigh
university of maryland</p>

<p>female
smallish private catholic school in NJ - sends a few to top schools each year
no rank - definately top 10% though
gpa [school does it out of 100]: uw - ~95, w -~98</p>

<p>ive taken the hardest level classes offered each year
aps: [only can take 2 in jr year] US hist-5, Chem-5, English Lang [no class, selfstudy]-5</p>

<p>senior year courseload:
AP Physics B
AP Statistics
AP Calc AB
AP Art History
AP ENglish Lit
religion [mandatory]</p>

<p>SAT: 2280 [M-790, CR-740, W-750]
sub tests: Math level 2-800, Chem-760, US Hist-720</p>

<p>Awards
-most likely National Merit Semifinalist [222 psat]
-Mother Caroline Scholarship [full school tuition, 4 year, merit scholarship, only given to 1 student in each grade]
-University of Rochester honorary science award
-principal's list every year
-2nd place in school math fax competition
-nominated by school to attend NJ Gov School in the sciences</p>

<p>ECs & stuff
-National Honor Society [11,12]
-Mu Alpha Theta: math honor society [10-12]
-National Italian Honor Society [10-12]
-softball jv team [have played for 10 years] [9-12]
-fall and summer club softball teams [10-11]
-freshmen basketball [9] [played for 7 years]
-Blueprint literary magazine [11-12]
-campus ministry [9-10]
-gymnastic lessons [6 years]
-big sister in school's big sister/little sister program [11-12]
-volunteered in schools chem lab for open houses <a href="i%20created%20a%20documentary%20of%20my%20ap%20chem%20class's%20trip%20that%20was%20used%20to%20promote%20the%20school%20at%20an%20open%20house">11</a></p>

<p>-i videotaped concerts and talent shows at my old elementary/middle school for 3 years, made each show into DVDs and then sold the DVDs to be used as a fundraiser for the school
-in a paid position i edited and created the graduation video for the class of 08 at my elementary/middle school [10th gr]
-managed the technical aspects of my church's multimedia stations of the cross production [11]</p>

<p>Summers
-volunteered at hospital in their closed-circuit tv station where interactive shows were broadcast for the hospitalized children [10]
-SIG at Princeton - took classes for 3 weeks in forensic science, the golden ratio, & photography [11]
-summer@brown - took digital video production class for 3 weeks [12]</p>

<p>Really depends on where you rank, the colleges will know. If you’re just top 10%, being from an average school in an overrepresented state will make ivies very tough with no stand out ECs.</p>

<p>This may help:</p>

<p>[Brown</a> Admission: Facts & Figures](<a href=“Undergraduate Admission | Brown University”>Undergraduate Admission | Brown University)</p>