I wish you the best of luck, and I hope your score predictions are on target, that might help you. Don't let naysayers get you down either, I was only in the top 15% of my school, with an 1800 on the SATs and I got an interview with Yale. For the most part, Ivys like devotion and quirkiness.
Keep doing the things you love, be enthusiastic about them and just love what you do. It will show through and they will eat that up. Do not spread yourself too thin, keep doing what you are doing, keep up your grades up and just, love what you are doing.
I also noticed that some of the other answers included financial concerns, ignore them too, Ivys have a lot of grants, for example, the tuition rates at Yale are forty something thousand a year, but most students only pay 6 thousand.
Your chances are extremely low. The ivies turn down thousands of valedictorians and straight-A students every year, and you're only in the top quarter of your class - that's a very low ranking and GPA for a top school. Also, none of your activities will make you stand out (those are very common activities) and you didn't mention a good reason to attend those schools in the first place.
Very few students will benefit more from attending a top school than a good state school. Why do you think you're one of them? You're talking about the ivies as if they were all the same.
They are very different schools, and you need to have a clear plan for what you'll do at that school when you apply if you want them to consider you. But frankly, you're aiming way too high.
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