<p>Large public state schools are the best bet you have. They look at what you actually did rather than look for the whole “well rounded” garbage. I was easily accepted into Clemson University and University of South Carolina with absolutely no ECs, jobs, charity, or whatever other fluff CCers spend their life on. I didn’t even go to a club once. I had a 3.96+ UW gpa ~top 15% class rank, 3 AP, 1990 SAT.</p>
<p>On college tours they also said it was strictly SAT/ACT/class rank/GPA. In fact, they only cared about Math + Reading portions of the SAT, not even writing. And my 1330 was good enough for the honors colleges of both as well I think. Dunno if they care about ECs, but if they don’t, I might try before sophomore year to get into that</p>