Please don’t choose your ECs based on some impossible to calculate ROI, thinking that will positively impact your college apps…do things you want to do because you like it.
I don’t understand this, so work on how you characterize this org. Why did you start it? How did you raise the money? How do you choose who receives the grow kits? Why international and not domestic? Etc.? Lots for you to talk about in relation to that.
I am concerned that you believe you need to attend a tippy top school to ‘make it’. Spoiler alert: You don’t need to attend X school to be successful. Your hard work is what will enable you to ‘make it’, no matter where you go to school.
I encourage you to take time to research schools and what they are looking for, and assess at which schools you feel you would fit. Did someone tell you that UChicago likes people who ‘intersect two weird majors’? I assure you that alone would not be the basis for UC AOs jumping out of their chairs and saying we must have this student on our campus.