Would a B+ in AP Physics hurt my chance at an IVY

Grade: 11th
GPA: 4.545
Class Rank: 2nd out of 350
Grades: All A’s or A-'s (School doesn’t give out A+)
SAT: 1500 Math 800 Reading/Grammar: 700
Hardest classes taken:
Calc AB, BC
Multivariable Calculus
AP Physics C
AP Micro Economics

College Courses taken (count as 5.0’s):
Macro Economics
International Business
U.S. Government
2 literature classes (don’t remember the name of them but doesn’t really matter)
music history (school requirement decided to do it at a college to get that 5.0)

Classes taking in 12th grade:
Linear Algebra (at college)
Differential Equations (at college)
AP statistics
Philosophy
Abstract Math (at college)
(not sure if I am going to do a lit or history)

extra-curriculars:
President of Model U.N.
President of Math club
Started the first ever online website for my student government
Member of student government
NHS member
Volunteer in North Philly

You are a competitive applicant. Your stats and ECs are great. A B+ in AP Physics will not hurt your application, especially if you aren’t planning on majoring in physics. You should consider taking two SAT subject tests and scoring 700s+ on both. Write good essays and you could get accepted to any of these schools

I will be majoring in Math, CS, or Business

A B+ will not be the reason between accept/reject.

Your stats are fine, but your ECs are pretty standard for most competent Ivy League applicants. You’re a solid applicant, but not a “standout” applicant with your ECs, so unless your essays are godly, you don’t have much of a chance.

I am also nationally ranked in Squash I have talked to the coaches at MIT, Brown, and Penn. They seem pretty interested. I am not good enough for schools like Harvard or Yale. But wouldn’t that help. TBH i’m not too far off of being on the team for Harvard or Yale, but wouldn’t my scores bring the academic index for the sport up. That could help me get into Harvard or Yale right? Also, I am going to talk to the coaches of Columbia, Dartmouth, and Princeton soon.

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If they actually want to recruit you, then Brown and Penn will definitely be easier. MIT has specifically stated multiple times that athletes still need to be qualified to go to MIT on their own merit, so I don’t see that helping you there.

The AI at Ivy League schools for sports like squash, tennis, golf are not statistically different from the AI of accepted non-athletic recruits IMO, and no college will recruit an athlete simply to boost its average AI.

What could I do to be a “standout applicant”? I a girl from my school got into MIT and Caltech EA and she took the same classes I took/will take

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