Will my hardships help me even the playing field for these colleges?

<p>before i mention my stats, i am going to major in history/business/econ</p>

<p>Race - Asian
Grade - rising senior
SAT - 2040, hoping to retake for 2150+
SAT 2’s - 780 US History, 700 Math 2, going to retake math 2 for 750+
GPA - 4.166667 from freshman - jr year
UC GPA - about 4.3</p>

<p>EC’s

  • Varsity tennis, mvp, team captain, won local league, cif quarterfinals
  • internship at [Welcome</a> to Vorsteiner](<a href=“http://www.vorsteiner.com%5DWelcome”>http://www.vorsteiner.com) my freshman and sophomore summers
  • job at the same place jr and sr summers, if you wanted to know what i do is help design the spoilers, hoods, trunks, manage orders, phone calls, emails, and also make sure that the other employees aren’t wasting time and fooling around</p>

<p>Hardships

  • first generation college student
  • low-income family, practically close to poverty level according to my aunt and uncle, i think around $20-40k annual for family of 4
  • adopted by aunt and uncle during 4th grade cause biological parents disappeared or actually just left </p>

<p>Miscellaneous

  • immigrant came in 1997</p>

<p>Colleges I am looking to apply at. I know some of these colleges will be extremely difficult and some practically impossible for me to get in but I want to know exactly where I stand when applying.</p>

<p>Stanford
University of Chicago
Columbia
U Penn
Northwestern
UC Berkeley
UCLA
USC
UCSD</p>

<p>Can you guys help me categorize which of these will be high reaches, reaches, matches, and safeties?</p>