Also, I finalized my list to the following:
Reach:
- Caltech (EA)
- University of Chicago (EA)
- Georgetown (EA)
- GeorgiaTech (EA)
- University of Michigan (EA)
- Northwestern (RD)
- Tufts University (RD)
- Carnegie Mellon (RD)
- Duke (RD)
- Vanderbilt (RD)
- Cornell (RD)
Target:
-Northeastern (EA)
-Boston University (RD)
Safeties:
- Purdue University (EA)
- UCONN (EA)
- Umass Amherst (EA)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (EA)
Also,
I decided not to ED because I come from around a 100K per year household which would make it tough to financially commit anywhere. I’m also applying test-optional because I never got a chance to take the ACT. However, I’m optimistic to get into a few schools as my school has good yields at UMich (25%), GeorgiaTech (30%), Vanderbilt (21%), Northwestern (18%), so hopefully, I’ll get into one of them!