@ShivomP please read the whole thread I’m linking below. It is a must read for every student who doesn’t have a true sure thing school on their application list. You have chosen a lot of competitive schools and you might get accepted…but you might not. The student in this thread was a NMF, either class val or Sal, excellent ECs, excellent LOR. An excellent admissions package. No one expected he would be rejected at every school he applied to…but he was. It was a horrible last semester in high school and early summer awaiting some waitlist results that ultimately were rejections. He had a happy ending after a very well thought out gap year. His second list of applications included several fine colleges where he was very very likely to be accepted. And some reaches also.
And this was in 2005 when admissions were far less competitive than they are now.