<p>Relax. We are only trying to help. From past postings, I know that Rmldad has recently been through the search/application process with his kid(s), as have I. I think he (Rmldad, I’m assuming you’re a he) would agree with me that this year’s admission cycle was particularly brutal. My D applied to and was accepted by two of the schools you listed. She will be attending ND in the fall, and believe me, after what we saw, she knows how fortunate she is to have been accepted. She had depth and breadth to her EC’s, lots of leadership, service work, was a three sport varsity athlete, 4.0 GPA, 2200+ SAT, had worked at ND the summer between her junior and senior years in a physics lab, had excellent recs from both her teacher (physics, and she’s not a math/science gal) and her counselor, both of whom are ND grads. Really challenged herself in school by taking the most difficult classes she could, Catholic, I don’t know what else, at this point I think I’ve blocked it out. She applied EA and you know what? She was deferred. That she was ultimately accepted was a bit of a surprise after seeing how the whole thing was unfolding. My point after this long tangent is that even the best of the best applicants don’t always, for whatever reason, get the results they want and probably deserve. Just make sure your application is as good as it can be, that your essays speak to who you are, not who you think the Ad Coms want you to be. And retake your ACT if possible 
Good luck and if you’d like any more insight, feel free to PM me.</p>