You are a full pay international? Is money of any issue? Are you a strong student? I don’t see your full stats and one post indicated you had a sub 1200 SAT if I didn’t misread that, do you have IB/A levels?
The point is to consider the risk potential of weed out at the most competitive schools where the entry standard is already high. Look at the first year drop out/weed out rates if possible. Lots of dropouts or weed outs wouldn’t even make it to the stage where GPA was the admitting factor if that is at the end of soph year. That just makes the competition tougher. What would be your plan B?