<p>I agree completely with SDonCC re your chances, based on what you’ve told us here. Is your GPA weighted or unweighted? How is your course rigor? What is your SAT breakdown? </p>
<p>I think that you should be concentrating more on the Lehigh/Bucknell range of schools when looking for matches. I think that Tufts is a good idea, but would classify it as a reach also; albeit a lower reach than Brown, which is a super-reach. I don’t think I would count on U VA as a match. Based on the results of OOS kids I know, it is a low reach, at least. It is quite possible that UW is more of a match than a safety for an OOS student, not sure.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that you shouldn’t apply to reaches: I think you should cast a wide net. BTW, maybe I missed it, but do you need significant FA?</p>
<p>U VM seems like a good safety for you. All of the kids I know who go there like it very much, and none of them were academic slouches in HS.</p>
<p>You might want to investigate Wesleyan. Swarthmore is a LAC with engineering, but a big reach for you.</p>