<p>Thanks again for all the suggestions guys! I’m definitely going to look further into a lot of the school’s you’ve listed.
I’m a white female from NYC. I haven’t taken the SAT yet, and the PSAT scores have yet to come in. 
I know that I got 1 CR and 1 M wrong, and I would say I got a max of three wrong after that (probably less), but I’m going to study a lot more! So I’ll estimate my SAT scores at 2300+ (praying for a perfect score!). I’m a bit confused by the gpa conversion, but it appears to be about 3.99 (should I just round that up?), and the weighted one will be higher once APs get factored in. My problem is that I am deficient in ECs. I am hoping the fact that I go to art school will balance that out a bit, and I’m desperately searching for more science-and-math-related ECs! I’m not at all the type of person who is the president of multiple clubs, etc. etc., and I feel like there probably are a lot of those people going to top schools. There are some really great colleges out there, and I think that I have at least a shot to get into some of them, but they would obviously all be reaches. I also see that once you get in to the top schools, a lot of them might be more collaborative and less competitive (e.g. MIT grades Pass/No Record and then A/B/C/No Record freshman year), but I feel like I might not completely fit in with a lot of the amazing people who go there! Right now I’m trying to find some matches, which might be more laid-back, but they still have to be good schools. Sorry for the rant-ish post!</p>