<p>Rest assured that you do not need to be involved in a sport, and it doesn’t matter whether you are involved in various fields or not - in fact, colleges like “well lopsided kids” better than “well rounded kids” (unless the BWRKs are exceptional in two fields, say, Xgame champion and ceramics sculptor).
You just need to demonstrate passion and leadership skills in <em>something</em> - what are you able to do when you’re passionate about something? (the assumption being that it represents the top of what you can do 
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Your EC’s are very good but you need to find something in which you “stand out”.
Try to be photographer for the yearbook or to have a photography exhibit (rather than the generic “involved in photography club”).
The Duke U summer program is especially important and will need to be highlighted - especially if the research you’re involved in leads to a presentation by you and teammates at a high school science fair or research conference.
The strong references will also be very important.</p>
<p>Question: have you run the Net Price Calculators?
UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara are 50,000 per year (and you will not receive any financial aid) so if your parents don’t have 200k in a college fund somewhere, drop them from the list.</p>
<p>I assume you will be applying to UNC-CH, another public (you’re lucky that in NC, the university system is very good), Davidson, and perhaps Duke?
Note that if you want a college on a beach (like UCSB) UNC-W’s Honors College would likely be safety so apply as soon as the application is up so that you have one affordable admission in hand before the admission cycle even starts.</p>
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