About UVA - fair enough. Regarding UCLA and UCB - I took an art elective in like 10th grade to meet the CTE/Fine Arts requirement, my mistake for excluding it. About applying early - I’ve already applied to a lot of these (CMU ED, MIT EA, UIUC EA, GT EA, UMich EA, UMD EA, UMass EA, Purdue EA, UNC EA, USC EA, UVA EA, VT EA, and Wisconsin-Madison EA). My main concern is fleshing out my list with more safeties, because basically all the unis I included are very prestigious, and I don’t want to risk rejection by all of them.