Given that it’s late November, this may no longer be useful, but thought I’d chime in …
Our daughter applied to architecture programs last year, enrolled at Tulane, and couldn’t be happier. I will say that she is working VERY hard - in addition to the 9 hours of studio class time, she easily spend an additional 15-20 hours in the studio each week. She was ready to change majors after about 1 month, but is now all in. I think there is a lot of comradery in the late nights bonding over cardboard models 
We struggled with the same challenge that you are facing in terms of evaluating her chances of admission. She had great grades, reasonable test scores, an ok portfolio (did not take any art classes in high school, which was a big mistake), and lots of demonstrated interest in architecture - both through summer programs, course work, and clubs. I personally think that her demonstrated interest (along with grades) was a big selling point in her applications. She did a summer program at Tulane (credits transferred!), Notre Dame (a reasonable cost to evaluate interest and VERY well run) and SCAD (cool experience, but did not help bolster her portfolio as we had hoped).
We applied to a lot of the same schools that have been mentioned in this post - happy to share our experience/outcome with various schools if you want to shoot me a DM.
Though belated, I wish you good luck through this process!