<p>With your stats, you will probably get into UNC, but it isn’t a reliable safety for anyone from outside of NC. I’d say that Tulane is probably pretty safe for you. They have a non-binding, Early Action option, and have waived the application fee in the past. They include merit scholarship notifications with early notifications (or just shortly after mailing the acceptance letters), and so you’d hear from them in the fall. If ,by some strange twist, they were to reject you, you would still have time to apply to other safe schools. </p>