Are these schools safeties, matches, or reaches for me?

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<p>I'm trying to put together my college list for the fall, and I am aiming to organize my safeties, matches, and reaches. Please help me categorize these colleges:</p>

<p>HYP, UPenn ED, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Duke, Brown, UVA, UMich, Cornell and Vanderbilt </p>

<p>SAT I: 1st time (800 CR, 700 M, 770 W), 2nd time (760 CR, 790 M, 800 W)
GPA: 3.95 UW, Rank 7/230 at private school; schedule is most rigorous with 11 APs</p>

<p>ECs: Founded a soup kitchen community service organization that cooks/funds full meals for soup kitchens and also has raised about 1K over 3 years so far - I hope to raise more money and make a micro financial loan senior year</p>

<p>-Sports Journalism (9-12) : sports editor of school paper, founded my own successful sports website with google advertising, write for numerous online blog sites, won local writing awards</p>

<p>-Coach Basketball for my city rec. league multiple times a week
-Student Government (9, 11, 12) (have a major leadership role)
-Varsity Golf (10-12)
-Model UN (10-12) club president, few small awards there</p>

<p>Plan to enter 2013-14 Intel STS for my major research paper on economic effects of civil war</p>

<p>Intended Major: Econ/International Relations</p>

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<p>Reaches: HYP, Penn, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Duke, Cornell, Vanderbilt</p>

<p>Safeties: UVA and UMich</p>

<p>For state schools like UVA and UMich which seem to have a very formulaic method of admissions, I’d say you’re pretty much a guarantee. For Ivies+ though, most of those ECs are fairly generic, though you obviously have a pretty decent shot.</p>