Chance and Match Me: HS Junior to Cornell, Boston U, Vanderbilt for Biology

Congratulations on your record so far!
Talk with your guidance counselor or college counselor and get an estimate of your class rank. Let’s say it is top25%. In the last 3 yrs, have at least 20% of your class gone gone to schools like Cornell? If so, you may be in the ballpark as of course it is not all rank related. If only 5% have and you are only top25%, you will need something extraordinary even with legacy to get in.
Perhaps more importantly, per these highly rejective schools themselves: the Transcript is most important, meaning your course rigor not just your grades. For a Cornell type of school, you need to have taken almost all honors offered and the hardest APs: your transcript needs to show you have challenged yourself every year across all areas. Does your school offer a different AP science than APES? Take it. Does your school offer AP calculus? Take it. Legacy will not make up for a lack of rigor, it is not that significant of a hook especially the last couple of yrs. The transcript is far more important than ECs : it is extremely rare that an outstanding EC would makeup for a lackluster transcript.