Princeton EA, and other colleges.

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could share their perspective on my application.

College list:
Princeton REA
Dartmouth
Harvard
Duke
WUSTL
Michigan
Vanderbilt
Emory
Rice
OSU (legacy) - pretty confident I can get a large scholarship.
Miami @ Oxford (legacy) - ditto.
UPitt
Northeastern
Mizzou/University of Missouri

White male, competitive public school. Missouri
Intended major: undecided
Class rank: N/A.
GPA: School has weird system. (If it helps, my UW GPA, out of 4.3, is 4.04, with 4.3 being A+.
I have 1B+, 3A-, rest A or A+).
I had straight A’s junior year in hard schedule, same 2nd semester sophomore year. I moved to a new state between grades 9 and 10, so my GPA dipped briefly

Stats:
ACT: 36C (36 36 35 36) 8/12 essay
SAT: 1500 w/ 22/24 essay, 1560 no essay
SATII: 780 MathII 720 Literature
PSAT: 1480 (Will get NM semi-finalist at least)

APs: Biology(3), freshman year.
Calc BC (5)
US Gov (5)
Physics 1 (5)
Senior year AP: Stat, Chem, English Lit, Micro+Macro

ECs:

I know this is probably my weakest area. I didn’t do much once I moved to my new school and it took a while to find some things I enjoyed doing.

Cross Country: 10-12. Varsity each year, and Team Captain this year. State championship all years, and last year I got top 50 in my division.
Track: 10-12 Varsity.
(( I am not good enough to be recruited at any Ivies or D1 schools. ))
Quiz Bowl: Member 11, Team Captain 12. Went to district tournament last year, got 2nd place
Team Engineering/Science Competition: State-wide event, got 2nd in state and 5th in nation for division. Went to national event, got 8th in nation.
80~ volunteering hours, but not at the same place.
Self-taught in piano
NHS, AP Scholar with Honor, impending NMSF

Please be honest about my chances at any of my schools. I know there’s a good chance I’ll be shot down from the higher-tier ones. Thanks!

Your stats automatically make you competitive for all of these schools. Since your ECs are maybe only slightly above average for students who apply to these schools, it will come down to your essays and how you piece your application together. What are you passionate about? Admissions officers tend to prefer applicants who have some sort of “spike.” Write your essays well and try making them connect to a broader theme that you want to build about yourself.

Princeton, Harvard, Duke, Dartmouth, and Vandy will be hardest for you as they are for every other applicant. I could see you getting into every other school on your list fairly easily.