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not outstanding ECs, above seems very much like a laundry list but nothing really stands out. work on the reading score, SATs are good but can be easily improved through superscoring. i don't know enough about admissions standards to chance you for every school on that list, but with regards to CHYMPS (caltech, harvard, yale, princeton, mit, stanford) there just isn't the 'wow factor' to be considered a plausible candidate. to your query, "decent grades" for 'uber' US universities is generally straight-As on maximum courseload, or close. obviously, numerous exceptions abound.

i suggest you read up more about the universities on your own though, the current list you have has very very little coherence, and could make for radically different experiences. or maybe you're just applying to more so as to increase chances of fin. aid, but that seems unlikely considering the number of state schools there.

oh, and of course, do well for your a-levels. good luck (:

(btw, just out of curiousity: njc?)