If you have a 3.9 great. If you don’t great.
You need to find the top school for you, not the top for US News.
There are 3.5s at ‘top schools’ whatever that means and 4.0 rejects.
Be your best you.
Control what you can and don’t focus on what’s out of control.
You have no idea how a college will view you.
Be the best you and that’ll be good enough.
Top college or not - it’s you that matters, not necessarily the school name.