USC and Cornell Chances

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1540 (780 reading 760 math 24 essay)
SAT II: Math 2: 780 Chem: 780
Unweighted GPA: 3.88
Weighted GPA: 4.37
Rank: n/a
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chinese (4), APUSH (4), Chem (4), CS (4), Spanish (2)
IB (place score in parenthesis): not offered
Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Physics C, AP BC Calc, AP Psych, AP Lit, law
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A
Minor Awards: 2 regional Scholastic Arts and Writing awards, AP Scholar, NM Commended, Department Award

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 3 years basketball for my school and 3 years of club (co-captain my sophomore year), writing club for 4 years (president this year), law club for 4 years (treasurer this year), creative writing in general (published in 4 places)
Job/Work Experience: basketball coach at my local middle school
Volunteer/Community service: my local hospital (200 hours)
Summer Activities: sleeping, procrastinating, intern at local start-up for 1 month, attended a pre-colligate course at Hopkins, played too much basketball

Essays: still working on them…
Teacher Recommendation: getting one from my English teacher and Bio teacher (had her freshman year)
Counselor Rec: she knows my name/who I am
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A
Supplementary Material (portfolio, etc.): N/A

Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yep
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: under 50k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): low-income

I’m stressed haha thanks guys. Also, my school sends quite a number of kids to USC each year.

bump!

With those hooks and your current scores (which are good), USC and Cornell seem very possible. If you could, you could maybe set other lower colleges such as UCLA, UCI, and UCB as safeties.

You are from a competitive state. Hard to say.