Congratulations on your achievements, and glad your father is doing better.
Are you sure you want to go to college right now? Who will run your company when you are in college? Have you talked with your angel investors about that? You can’t accept their money and then leave for college, unless they are ok with whatever plans are in place for when you are in college. You may have other people running the company which will be ok, but you must have that conversation with investors (and any VCs you are talking with.)
For relatively more holistic schools, possibly. But fundamentally, with a 3.7 uw GPA, C’s on the transcript, and outside the top 10%, your chances of admission at reaches are likely lower than the overall admit rate. Many highly rejective schools talk a good game about holistic admissions and forgiving grade hiccups, but when push comes to shove, relatively few unhooked students with C’s are accepted at these schools. That last sentence describes the school where I work to a T.
I’m not saying don’t put in apps to reaches, but at the same time, Iove the target and highly likely/safety schools you apply to. So, I would encourage you to add more targets and highly likelies. You need at least one affordable highly likely/safety school…is that really UMBC?
Does your HS use Naviance or Scoir? If so, what do the scattergrams look like at the intersection of your unweighted GPA and test score for UMD?
Georgia Tech is a reach, and less holistic than some others on your list, especially for OOS students.
Obviously he shouldn’t write that in anything that goes to schools not named Harvard.
Lastly, you haven’t said if you have any budget constraints, but if so, do let us know that.