Please chance me for these schools!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello everyone I am looking for some advice on safeties, matches, and reaches and my current college list!
GPA: UW/W 3.4/3.8 (trying to explain GPA through Guidance Counselor letter and my essays)
Scores: ACT 27 (retaking had issue that morning)
Sat: 1750, 1910 (retaking currently testing at 2100 so I'm prepping a ton
SAT 2: Planning on taking US history, World History, Lit, Bio
AP Tests: 4- AP World 4-AP Psych 4- AP Lang 5- APUSH
Taking: AP Gov, AP Macro, AP Lit, AP Bio next year
Have Taken: 1 concurrent enrollment course, mostly honors and AP
ECS: Track, Cross Country
Mock Trial 3rd in Region (hoping for state next year)
National Competitor for Debate
Founder of Peer Tutoring Club
National Spanish Honors Society
National Technical Honors Society
Law college class taken at top 10 school over summer
Beautillion and Black Leadership Conference
Currently have 2 jobs
Volunteering= 50 hours
Financial situation: Pretty Bad: Did EFC said expected income IM was 9000 and FM was 8000
African American URM</p>

<p>Some colleges I'm Looking at:</p>

<p>Georgetown, Emory, Tufts, Yale
GWU, American, Syracuse, Case Western, Bates, Middlebury, Wesleyean, Macaelester
CU boulder, University of Utah </p>

<p>Looking for a great college town but I do not really want to go to a massive school
I'm looking for a challenging college with a good reputation and great internships</p>

<p>I currently have a sibling at Yale so I don't know if that makes a difference</p>

<p>Plans: Majoring in International Relations and/or Philosophy so any recommendations about strong schools in those would be awesome </p>

<p>I appreciate all the help and advice anyone can give me on some other schools and any other recommendations!</p>

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<p>Haha I am a very worrisome person @RingaDingDing‌ </p>

<p>And browsing CC had me extremely scared at the amount of kids with UW 4.0 and W 4.5 with amazing scores and ecs</p>

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<p>Honestly, many of those schools would be reaches for you even if you get your standardized test scores up (which would benefit you in the long run). I’d put Yale, Emory, Georgetown, Tufts, Wesleyan, GW, and Bates as reaches. Don’t be intimidated by other people, not everyone has those qualifications (CC is only a small percent of the overall applicant pool) but you should look at the common data set of each school and see if you are in the average range of those schools. If below average, you might want to consider refining your list</p>

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<p>Haha yeah I didn’t even mean Yale I meant Harvard but understandably still a major reach thank you for the advice @shawnspencer‌ </p>