Further actions required to get into elite colleges

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>I am going into my junior year of high school at a private school in New York. I have received Honor Roll for the past four semesters, meaning I was in the top 10% of students at Riverdale each semester. My GPA is sitting at a 3.8 unweighted and I am in Honors Math and Honors Chemistry. (A+ in Chemistry, A in Math, A- in History, A in English, A in Spanish). I am the sports editor of the newspaper and have attended numerous Model UN conferences, winning an award. I have internships lined up this summer at a research cancer lab, ABC and Morgan Stanley. I am also planning to do some volunteer work, not sure what type yet though. I also played JV Basketball and Varsity Football for the past two years. I know that I am missing a major piece of my college application, in not having my standardized test scores. However, the PLAN test projected that I would get a 31 on my ACT (without studying). I am guessing that I will get around a 33 on the ACT. As for SAT IIs, I was wondering which ones would be the best for me, I was thinking Chemistry, Math 2 and US History. The schools that I plan to apply to are:
REACH: Yale
REGULAR: Brown, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Amherst, Penn
SAFETIES: Tufts and Wesleyan (not actually safeties) </p>

<p>What more do I need to do to get into these colleges? Are there any other schools I should put on my list? What other safeties should I put on the list? </p>

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<p>Doesn’t your school offer AP/IB courses?</p>

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<p>All of my classes are AP</p>

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<p>Everything except for Tufts is a reach here. Also, in order for a school to be a safety, you have to be able to comfortably afford it as well. And even still Tufts may reject you because of yield protection</p>

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<p>Aside from the honors courses you listed, EVERYTHING else for the past 3 days was AP?</p>

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<p>You’re going to a $40k tuition, elite prep school that sends a fifth of its class to ivy league schools.</p>

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<p>If your school’s well-connected college counselors can’t advise you on what else you need to do, then there isn’t much hope for the 99%.</p>