I am a senior in high school and I originally applied to Tufts early decision 1 but didn’t meet their 2 subject test requirement so I had to push my application to ed2. I took a subject test and will submit it regardless of the score. They know I basically applied to their college ED twice too. I have a 1370 sat score and a 3.6 GPA, but also legacy and high-quality extracurriculars/writing supplements/recommendations. I have to wait until mid-February for tufts and the waiting is making me really scared that none of the colleges I like will accept me. Can someone tell me what they think the general outcome will be, without telling me what I want to hear? I need a rational mind because I am in a really negative headspace right now. Other colleges I applied to include BC, BU, Northeastern, NYU, holy cross and Trinity (all regular decision).
Is the 3.6 weighted or unweighted?
weighted 
I messed up freshman year and that brought everything down (3.0), sophomore year I got 3.65, junior 3.9 and senior 4.1
Well, at least it’s an upward trend. Do you have any safeties because with a 3.6, I don’t see any safeties on your list.
This post has so much anxiety. I think you’ll get into some of your schools, but you really should add a safety or two-- or at least some schools a little less selective than holy cross.
Yeah I didn’t include safeties, I just included the colleges I am more excited about. My safeties are Fordham university, brandeis, simmons, uconn, umass and UVM
Your list of “safeties” is a good list which includes some very good schools. I don’t know much about Fordham or U.Conn, but the rest are all very good. You can do very well with a degree from any of them.
I have for example worked with some very strong co-workers who graduated from U.Mass. No one cares that some of us graduated from U.Mass, some from MIT, and many from a range of other schools.
Yeah, I know in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter because all the schools I am applying to are good. It’s hard to keep that in mind when you go to such a competitive high school where half the seniors end up going to top-notch schools and ivy leagues. I am just hoping I get into at least one of the colleges I listed in the beginning because then I would feel like all the hard work I put in to bounce back from freshman year meant something.
Any school that you’ve applied to doesn’t exist anymore until you are accepted. Blot them out of your mind. It’s not helpful to think about them.
Then you’ll have to see which school will get the prize - YOU!
If you applied EA to some of the schools on your list, which I suspect you did since they required no additional essay on the common app, then you will start hearing admissions shortly.
You can only go to one school. Because you have multiple safeties, you’re going to have to reject some good schools not worthy of your talents. Instead of worrying about the applications that are still pending, you can focus on learning something about yourself as you downselect from the schools that have admitted you.
Also, studies have shown that people’s future income is more correlated with the highest ranked school that rejected them than the rank of the school that they actually went to. There for getting rejected by a highly ranked school is like money in the bank!
So a student with a 2.5 HS GPA and 900 SAT score (and not related to a big donor, etc.) should apply to HYPSM for future higher income?
Try not to worry about what everybody else is doing. A lot of these distinctions between schools are really only meaningful (or even known) among people applying to colleges, and they are smaller than you think.
Realistically, Tufts will be very tough, but maybe the legacy and ED will help you make it. BC, BU, Northeastern, NYU, Holy Cross, Trinity, and Brandeis (which is not a safety) all could go either way, but that’s a lot of good chances you have. Fordham seems very likely, and UMass, UConn, UVM, and Simmons even more so. It will all work out.
Thank you for the honest reply, I needed that!
either that or buy bitcoin 
My suggestion is to apply to a couple of safeties that you would love to attend. I don’t get the impression that you loe your current safeties.
@julialaman What is your major? And are you saying that your unweighted GPA is a 3.0?