OP I’m sorry for all the cynical and non-helpful responses you are getting, not that all of them are. I understand your spot. I also want to go into neuroscience and go to a prestigious school to be surrounded by intellectuals who love not only the science but learning in general. My top school for that is UChicago, you should look into it if your serious about the wanting that kind of environment. Defiantly get some safety school but still go for the lottery’s anyways. Your GPA is good and you seem to challenge yourself with the classes your taking. When it comes to AP tests obviously doing well on many in many subject areas would be the best but that’t not always possible so I would go for the STEM ones and maybe English to show some well-roundedness. For the ACT I would shoot for a 35+ honestly because of your demographics (Indian and NY those hurt). It might sound impossible but get a good practice book and go through a couple tests. What I found to work the best is to go through one test really slow and think about every answer then study the reasons for those answers then go though another test at regular speed to get the timing down. I raised my ACT 7 point from sophomore to junior year just going though 2 test like that. Also for the subject tests go for Math 2 if you would’ve already taken precalc. When it comes to EC try to get that internship or go hard into something, Right now it kinda feels like a big blob of smart stuff. Also one last thing if you want to more about neuroscience MIT online courses and the Howard Hues Holiday Lectures have some good neuroscience stuff.