<p>What did you get on the SAT (or PSAT)? What are your grades like?</p>
<p>The thing with reaches is that you have to be at least a little bit realistic. For some kids, their state university is a reach (but still within reason). For other kids, schools in the top 20 are reasonable reaches. </p>
<p>I think UPenn is a wonderful school (of course, that could be because I’m going there next year) and everything else on your reach list seems to be of about the same caliber (except I don’t know anything about Wash U).</p>