Thank you all for the replies.
I wasn’t aware how different OOS acceptance rates were, so thank you @momofsenior1 for pointing that out. I have no idea what a match school would be for me, though, so I’m not sure how to pick them out.
@shenanigan I’d prefer an urban school with both good pre-med and business programs (I haven’t made my mind up yet) that supports visual arts. I’m not really into Greek life or party schools. I’m not super picky on student life, as long as the college is not in the middle of nowhere.
I don’t like all the T20s (hence why I did not put them all on my list), but I am conflicted on whether applying to many is the strategic move. I definitely won’t apply to schools I wouldn’t go to if I got in, but is applying to 20+ schools really a great decision? I know it would take a lot of time, but if all 20+ of those schools are schools I’d want to go to, then would it be worth it to shoot my shot at all of them?
Besides those 14, I was also considering applying to Stanford, Brown, Vanderbilt, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, and UChicago. While I know those are all also reaches, if I had time to, would it hurt to send in applications to those schools?