<p>High Reach (0): n/a
Reach (3): USC, NYU, UCLA.
Match or Semi-Reach (1): UCSD.
Low Match or Good Fit (5): Cal Poly SLO, Pepperdine, UCD, UCSB, Syracuse.
Likely (1): UCSC.
Safety (1): SDSU.</p>
<p>Your stats put you very high for SDSU, but it might be a Likely because of the acceptance rate. Only you can make that call.</p>
<p>If you want to lump your choices into three categories (safety, match, reach) then you have 1:7:3. If you want to categorize them with more detail, you have the list above as an approximation.</p>
<p>With 11 applications, many people might move one or two apps out of the Low Match and use them elsewhere. You could be more aggressive and try to win a place at a better school with another Semi-Reach, or even more aggressive and opt for one High Reach and hope to hit the jackpot. However, how you define High Reach would determine where USC (or UCB) would fall. Many people might believe that only the very selective privates (<15%) would be High Reaches for you, while some might think that USC (UCB) would fall into that category already. Some folks might be even more conservative than you, who knows?</p>
<p>In the end, theres a fair amount of guesswork, and the risk has to be acceptable to you and your parents.</p>
<p>Are there no other Semi-Reaches that interest you?</p>