What are my chances?

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Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:25:23 +0000

I am currently a high school sophomore in a small community. We have around 20,000 people in and around town with one hs with around 1200 students.

Asian American female

born in China and was in an orphanage, then adopted by Caucasian parents and brought to a super white town in US

Identify as lesbian

diagnosed with severe unilateral hearing loss

Grades/ Test Scores:
-Current 4.0 unweighted gpa
-took psat without studying(I am now studying for Junior year ) 1290

Activities:

Play viola & violin
-FBLA (currently treasure)

Been in leadership since 7th grade (Freshman Class President & currently an ASB Officer)

volunteer at local library and have led projects with them for five years (since 6th gr.)

Soccer (On JV both years, but got brought up to play in districts)

Tennis (JV Freshman year, most likely varsity this year)

Things I’ve done:

National History Day (Second at state and went to Nationals Freshman year for a documentary…)

Historical Society (Second place for local comp.)

Lettered in community service Freshman year with United Way, and am on track to double letter this year

FBLA (went to state for Intro to Financial Math and took 9th at state in Intro to business Presentation) (Going to state this year in Digital Video Production, Political Science, and Intro to Business Presentation)
-Testified and advocated at our state capitol for bills promoting and helping with the construction of a new hs and extra education funding for unfunded schools like ours

Going to state this year for Chamber ensemble

Business Department Excellence Award

Like video production, and have made various videos promoting programs in our small community for different organizations (Lions Club, Benefit Talent Show, Library)

I am slightly worried, as our small community does not offer many rigorous courses or opportunities. Our hs is geared toward those who want to go to community college or trade school. The AP classes offered are discouraged by counselors to take, and due to budget cuts there even thinking of cutting word language III and IV programs and many of the AP courses they do offer. I’d liked to study political science in college, and eventually become a lawyer or political analyst.

What are my chances of getting into my dream schools? And what should I be doing for the next 2.5 years of hs to better my chances?

Dream Colleges:

Stanford

USC
-UCLA

Yale
-Brown
-Princeton