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bare in mind don't ever get yourself attached to only 1 school very strongly. if not a rejection or deferral will hurt very much. apply to a variety of tier 1 schools and feel happy that u will end up at either one of them.

a friend of mine was particularly attached to harvard. he did everything on his resume for the sake of harvard, and in the end he deferred ED and rejected RD. this guy was an academic superstar, he got a 1600 on the old SATs, some very pretty stats on SATIIs, officers of several clubs, instrument, etc etc. However, you can still label him the standard asian. Thereafter his deferral and rejection, he became very bitter about it, an cursed about harvard frequently. He is at Duke now, which is still an awesome tier 1 school, but I am not sure if he is that happy.

So just work your best, apply to a bunch of tier 1 schools, and start the loving your school part after you get into some and have the ability to choose.