<p>As sbjdorlo’s list demonstrates-even with her son and his great states and ecs/cs and honors; he still had 3 safeties on the list. </p>
<p>One thing to be mindful ryry123 is that the word on the street is that the top tier schools are going to accept even less students because this past year the yields were off the chart. I don’t have my numbers in front of me but both Yale and Harvard had yields over 80% so there is talk that they are going to reduce their acceptance numbers even more to around 5% or less. Same story with Chicago. </p>
<p>Since you need merit I would add two matches and two safeties to your list and check the common data set for each school to see how generous they have been in the past. Last year there were many reports of students who applied to only reaches or close to reaches with good stats etc and they got accepted to none of their schools. I do not want that to happen to you. It is simply a numbers game. there are many students with stats similar to yourself that apply to those schools-most of the schools on your list do not give merit money. BU is getting harder to get into and unless money is guaranteed in the scholarship you list; I would not assume you will get the scholarships. Good luck. Put the time in to refine your list and you will be better off next April. You should run the net price calculator for each school as others have suggested.</p>