Chances of getting into Oxbridge, Ivies, Stanford as an international student?

Chance Me / Match Me
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Nationality: Indian
Preferred Major: English
Preferred universities(in descending order of preference): Cambridge
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
Other Ivies, tied
Durham’s, other non-prestige-but-great-universities
School: Been to private school in a considerably developed Gulf country for the first fifteen years of my life
I now study at one of the oldest private schools in the country

Now that we’ve got some blunt facts out of the way, here’s some more:-

Standardised testing:
SAT II
800-English Literature, Korean with listening
790-Japanese with Listening
788-Chinese with Listening

Band 9 IELTS
119/120- TOEFL
163/170 - GRE Literature in English test
222/230-Cambridge Proficiency
Japanese Language Proficiency Test N2 passed
HSK N3 passed (Test of Proficiency in Mandarin)
Test of Proficiency in Korean Phase II Level 5 passed

(Currently working my ass off to pass A-levels.)

SCHOOL GRADES
Year 1:97% (my country doesn’t really give out marks in the GPA system, so I’m slightly concerned about that.)
Year 2(?)

Awards
Commonwealth Essay Writing Competition gold, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015
Silver, 2014
SOF International English Olympiad, Double-Gold(Country, International) 2010-2015
International ranks-7,19,24,32,106 (in descending order)
Multiple school-conducted essay/public speaking prizes
(Not sure if this counts, but SOF International Science Olympiad gold-2013, 2014)

Extracurriculars:
Officer of the All India Student Council
Officer of the school’s Drama Club
Essay published in the National Education Board’s collection of essays
I tutor kids, and also do paid mentoring work at a Classic Literature club outside of school
Have a detailed theory with factual evidence on Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, and have written about Finnegan’s Wake generally for a research journal

As you can see, I’m severely lacking in the extracurriculars department. ;-;
I’d really like some insight on this.
I enjoy writing exams and studying for em, but I feel like it makes me look like a bookworm on paper. I’m really not very good at sports, or art, or music, so my options in the extracurriculars department are limited.
Any suggestions and constructive criticism would be highly appreciated. :slight_smile:

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Edit because my ‘edit’ button refuses to work:
Forgot to mention this, but I’m at my current school on a 90% scholarship and my class rank last year was 1/96.
I also plan on doing:
Fundraising for the cause of child education and natural disaster victims
Running a wizIQ-powered online teaching gig, whose proceeds all go to charity
What would be a more realistic approach in my case? I’m aware that I’m aiming pretty high, and I’d appreciate honest opinions.

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For Cambridge, if you are submitting US qualifications, I doubt that SAT subject tests will do it (I suppose if you really nailed the ELAT it’s possible, but I would be surprised). Are you an IB student? sitting A levels?

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Yes, I’ll be taking the A-levels. The Cambridge website does say that they take SAT II scores into account, although I assume they would be a rather minor consideration.
Thank you for your time, collegemom3717. C:

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What is your SAT or ACT?

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I plan on taking neither, since all the subjects I’m studying in class 11 and 12 are humanities subjects, and as such it’s not really feasible for me to take exams like the SAT and ACT as they involve science and math that are not part of my curriculum.