Really worried about college, need some advice please

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Hey guys I go to a very strong public school and considering the following information I wanted to hear what others have to say about my odds of getting into certain schools.
Have taken honors classes Fresh+Soph year as well as advanced math (hardest possible schedule) and had around a 3.5 gpa those two years.
I am a junior currently and am taking:
Advanced Precalculus grade so far: B
AP Chemistry grade so far: A-
Honors Biology grade so far: A-
Honors American History grade so far: A-
Honors Spanish grade so far: A
Honors American Literature grade so far: B

Senior year I will be taking:
AP BC Calculus
AP Biology
Engineering (honors class)
Honors Spanish
Public speaking

I took the SAT once so far and got a score of 1930.
750 Math (only 1 question wrong, brutal curve)
630 Critical Reading
550 Writing (hoping to get this up to 650ish)

I know my SAT is a tad low, but I am not the best at English. If I manage a 2000, and taken the classes I listed above, what types of schools would be in my range?

I haven’t looked at too many school so far, but some ideas are:
Safety: UMass amherst, UConn
Match: Northeastern, Tufts (?), NYU
Reach: Columbia, Cornell, Harvard

If not these schools, which schools would be in my score/gpa range?

Note: Many students in my school get into Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, Brown, Cornell etc. so that shows how my school is definitely rigorous

Thanks so much

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I would say your list of schools is pretty accurate, but I’d put Tufts as a reach, and Columbia and Harvard as high reaches.

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I would put Tufts and NYU as high matches to low reaches. All Ivies as high reaches

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if you study really hard and improve your critical reading score significantly and your writing up a bit (writing is not as important), than you have a shot at those schools listed as reaches. Nyu and northeastern are definite matches/safeties in my opinion for you. maybe think about adding boston college to your list also?

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With your SAT score, NYU and Northeastern are reaches.

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I don’t know much about your school and how hard it is to get good grades but if I were you I wouldn’t bother with Harvard, Cornell, and Columbia considering your test scores and grades. Maybe look at like BC or Colgate.

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Considering I would get it up to at least a 2050, which is very doable with a writing score of 650, that would make it more of a match…no? I also hear of kids from school going to Northeastern with SAT scores in the 1700s so everything is just confusing me big time.

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No one goes to Northeastern with a 1700

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The mid 50% SAT at Northeastern for enrolled freshmen was 2020-2190 in 2014, A 1700 would make NU a reach even for a recruited athlete.

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I think that your reach schools are very iffy. USually kids that go to those schools have A’s in everything and a 4.0 and 36 ACT etc. However, the other options are safe bets, I would say. Good luck!

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Your list of matches doesn’t seem to fit your scores, so they look like reaches to me.