If you are using EA, I don’t think that you should have a final list until January. Getting some actual results from EA in early/mid December can change your list. For my DS, he both added and subtracted schools from his list. After a positive response from an EA reach, he added two more reach schools and removed all the remaining match/safety schools. He is currently at a school that wasn’t even on the list until late. If you start getting unexpected bad results in EA then you not only may have to reconsider your list, but also review the application for fatal flaws.
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