Do you have the acceptance rates for male physics applicants with these scores at those schools? I don’t, but I would guess a student with OP’s profile has a better than 20 pct chance, regardless of what the aggregate acceptance rate is for all applicants. Stats may be readily available by gender. Reach or target “for everyone” is not a sufficiently nuanced view in the peculiar world of second-tier LACs, in the reasoned view of our college advisor, who is a former AO at such a LAC. Many second-tier LACs have historically had a hard time attracting male applicants as qualified as their female applicants, and do have male applicant pools with significantly lower stats. See eg Vassar.
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