Chances of admission to top 50 university with excellent grades but few extracurriculars [WI resident, 4.0 GPA, 1520 SAT, 34 ACT, <$40k; social sciences]

Oooh, I remember reading about this not long ago (although it happened a long time ago). IIRC, he finally got caught because he plagiarized a professor while applying for a Fulbright. Stories like that are what make me think that covering all the bases cannot be a bad idea. I don’t see the downside, besides in expenditure of time and money, in providing proof of claims of fluency.

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