<p>@Dunboyne Thank you so much for putting that all in perspective for me! I think I have a lot of low matches/matches because I’m incredibly doubtful of my chances of acceptance. My parents want me to shoot high, and my mom really wants me to apply to Stanford (I know, super high reach). I’m trying to be more realistic, but it’s hard to be when, like you said, there’s a fair amount of guesswork. There aren’t really any other semi-reaches in California that interest me, or at least none that I can think of. Although, I read somewhere that Santa Clara University’s undergrad business program for macroecon is ranked highly. As for the east-coast, I’ve looked into Boston U and GWU and both seem like a great options. Since I’m not from the east coast, I’m not familiar with the surrounding area so I tend to be more attracted to the bigger cities, such as NYC, Chicago, Philly, Boston, etc, compared to cities I’ve never heard of. </p>
<p>@tasmom Wow, that’s very impressive! Journalism was actually my first-choice major for a while now, but I’ve recently changed it to Economics. However, as suggested by Dunboyne, I plan on still minoring in Journalism in case I plan to pursue a career in it (or something along the lines of it) in the future. I heard the Annenberg School is impacted though, so wouldn’t that lower my chances if I were to apply to that?</p>