<p>I would consider myself a good student. I have the grades, and after obsessively studying, I expect to have the SAT score as well. I'm a rising junior (it's summer now).</p>
<p>Would you consider the following schools too ambitious in general??</p>
<p>Dream schools (in no particular order):
UNC Chapel Hill
Clemson
William and Mary
John Hopkins
Stanford (SUPER STRETCH)
UCLA
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Fallback school:
University of Georgia (It's in-state for me. My dumb brother got in, so I feel like I can too.)</p>
<p>Super-Fallback school:
Georgia Southern</p>
<p>These will probably be the only schools that I apply to, give or take a few, so if I don't get into my dream out-of-state school, then I'll just go to a cheap, in-state fallback one.</p>
<p>Maybe look into more targets. Clemson is a good school that’s not terribly hard to get in to, but still competitive. Maybe find more in Clemson’s “realm”? I’ve also marked all the publics with OOS. Will you be needing financial aid? If so, knock UCLA off the list and give second thoughts to the other publics; they don’t like giving aid to OOS kids. </p>
<p>I think your list is plenty ambitious. A little heavy on the reaches side, but other than that it’s pretty good.</p>
<p>You didn’t give us any information on GPA, SAT or Extracurricular.</p>
<p>Since your safety is Southern Georgia, and you aren’t confident in your ability to get in UGA 100%, I am inclined to say that Stanford, JHU, Vandy, UVA (OOS), UCLA (OOS) are all too high.</p>