What else should I be doing to get into an ivy league school?

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<p>Here is my academic background:
- I go to a small private school in long island with 50 people in my grade. I am in the top three of my class and i am currently in junior year
- I got straight A’s freshman year and straight A's and A- for sophmore year (I am not really sure what my gpa would be)
- I am in all honors classes. I take the hardest courses my school offers, except for US history. I am only in advanced, not in AP. My parents required me to take one easier academic class, since I just found out that i have aspergers, add inattentive, and reading and writing fluency issues.
- I took the bio AP and got a 4 and the subject test and got a 710
- i am a peer tutor
- I have been the treasurer of my school for the past two years and I have gotten the school a vending machine, peace pole, and opened a school store
- I take both Spanish and French. I have skipped a level in both languages and I have gone to language immersion programs for the past three summers. I am currently in Spanish AP, my only AP class this year and French 4A. I am going to start mandarin with Berlitz soon. I plan on going to an immersion program in Spain for my senior year.
- I participate in three varsity sports, squash, tennis and cross country. I may be the captain of the squash team this year. I also do Bikram yoga.
- I am starting a key club in my school, since i enjoy community service. I have gone to new orleans for the past two years to help rebuild.
- I am an active member in green team
- i have participated in several national scrabble tournaments
- next summer I am considering doing an internship of some sort </p>

<p>I am looking at Brown and Amherst in particular but I have trouble with standardized testing. Should I be fine if my SAT score is not excellent (maybe a little below 2000) and if not, what else should I be doing?</p>

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<p>Just in case, I’d look for some really great selective colleges where you could be happy in case the Ivy League doesn’t work for you. There are many. In fact, you may very well find some that you like much better.</p>

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<p>What you should be doing is working to overcome your parents’ influence on babying you. The schools you want to attend will reward risk-taking and want you to take the most rigorous classes available. They will certainly take into account any medical issues you have, but if you let those issues define you, you’ll never rise above them.</p>

<p>If you can get a 4 in AP Bio in your sophomore year, you can most assuredly take classes like APUSH and also do much better than 2000 on your SAT. Understand this: the SAT is NOT a hard test, certainly not relative to the AP exams. Don’t they allow extra time for test-takers with certain medical issues?</p>

<p>A better strategy would have been for you to be allowed into APUSH with the understanding that you could quietly drop back to a lower level if the work was too much for you – THAT would have been nurturing rather than limiting.</p>