Gap year students made some impact on T-20s but the main shift is test optional. If you are interested, google Jeff Selingo, who is an education writer, who recently published a book, Who Gets in and Why? Due to TO, which is likely to continue at many schools next year, the top schools were flooded with applications, which made it even more difficult to predict outcomes. During this season some matches became reaches, and reaches became uber reaches. While many students could not test this year, others who didn’t test as well as they would have liked did not submit. The data isn’t yet available but I’d bet that test submitters at top schools were probably 1500/34+
You seem to be open to smaller/Catholic/women’s schools. Some where your stats have a decent chance of yielding merit scholarships would be Santa Clara, LMU, Occidental, University of Puget Sound, Willamette, and Lewis & Clark. Also as I mentioned above, there are many students from California at the flagship universities in Arizona where strong stats yield merit scholarships that can make them less expensive than the UC system. Those would be good safeties to have in your back pocket. I am not sure if they still have rolling admission but in the past they did. It’s reassuring to go through this process with a viable offer in hand early on. Both have very good honors colleges.
@lebron13, respectfully, admissions was very tough this year at U Mich, NYU, and BC.