<p>Wash U in St Louis, Rice, Wesleyan, Brown, Amherst, NU, and Stanford are all excellent schools, but they’re all also very difficult to get into, even for kids with 2300+ SATs and 3.8+ GPAs. Really. None of them admit more than 20% of the kids that apply, and even a kid with your stats has no more than a 45% chance at any one of these schools. Now, I’m not saying that it’s likely you’ll be rejected by all these schools. In fact, I bet you’ll get into at least a couple. But, it seems to me that you have a list of very selective schools and relatively easy schools, and nothing in between. This means that if you have a run of bad luck and don’t get into any of the hard schools, you’ll only have the relatively easy ones to choose from. I suggest you add some good, but selective (as opposed to very selective) schools to your list. Here’s a few you might consider: Cornell, Vanderbilt, Emory, Brandeis, William and Mary, University of Virginia, Georgetown. There’s many others, but this could be a start.</p>