<p>I don’t think you should give up on your Ivy Dreams, but I think you should also get more realistic. Here, again, is your list:
UT Austin (Safety, a Very Good Safety with Strong Business&Engineering)
UPenn (Dream)
MIT (Not Mathy Enough so Dream)
UC Berkeley (Reach)
HYP (Dreams)</p>
<p>I think what is wrong with this list is the lack of match schools. There is nothing wrong with including as many reaches as you want, and the strategy of using UT as a safe school makes a lot of sense. However, there are a lot of excellent schools in between Penn and UT, and you should be thinking about some of them. Places like Vanderbilt, Emory, Tufts, perhaps some LACs. Get a book like the 368 Best Colleges and read it.</p>
<p>Oh, and if you’re in Texas, you really have to consider Rice!</p>