I’m a junior at the Latin School of Chicago. I am planning on applying to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Stanford, Caltech, MIT, UChicago, Smith, Swarthmore, Barnard, Columbia, and the University of Illinois. (I would be very sad to end up at U of I 
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I KNOW these are really tough schools to get into, but I know I have a passion for science, history, math, and life that could ONLY be expressed at these schools.
So some background for you:
GPA: 5.0/4.0
(My school has a special scale)
SAT: 1600 (NEW, not old)
ACT: 36
Captain of the school debate team for three years, freshmen aren’t allowed to… is that going to break my chances?
Captain of the women’s tennis team
Varsity lacrosse player
President of model UN
Winner of the 2016 National Econ Challenge
Winner of the 2016 M3 competition
Siemens Competition Winner
Interned on a neuroscience study at UChicago and completed my own project which I presented at an international poster session in Munich my sophomore summer
Volunteered in South Africa building homes in Soweto freshman summer
I’m a good writer so I’m not too worried about the essays… but how do I, you know, be authentic? What do admissions officers look for?
AP Biology - 5
AP Chem current
AP Physics I -5
AP Physics E&M -5
AP Physics Mech -5
AP Calc BC -5 (AB subscore - 4) Does this totally destroy my application?
AP Lit - 5
AP Lang current
AP Stats - current
AP Computer science - current
AP Spanish - current
AP European history - current
Tell me what my chances are!! SUPER PANICKED