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They'll know that you weren't offered many opportunities, but they will still expect to see, I'd imagine, some form of community involvement in its place.
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Agreed. If you're going for the top 10, you will need to have a healthy string of ECs. It doesn't really matter if these are in- or out-of-school —*most people have a mix of both — but since your school doesn't have these opportunities, your best bet is to make up for it with plenty of out-of-school ECs. Colleges — especially the top 10 — need to see two things: that you can do the work, and that you will make their college better in some way. Show them the former by getting good SAT scores and grades; show the latter by writing good essays and having lots of ECs (and there are many other ways do do this — anything that falls in the region of "being a standout applicant").