<p>Duke is actually hard to get into for international because there are so many students applying international so I disagree with all of those that say Duke is a match. Duke’s acceptance rate is just as high as UPenn’s and the SAT/ACT of the middle 50% for Duke is the same and slightly higher, not much (so I don’t understand how people say UPenn is a reach while Duke is a match). I don’t get it when people say that Duke is a match and JHU is a reach, JHU has a higher acceptance rate than Duke and the SAT/ACT of middle 50% is slightly lower than Duke’s. And that 28 on your ACT English does actually hurt a bit. All of these colleges have really good international students applying and only a handful get in. I personally have to say that most of the top schools you listed are a reach because of the large number of international students and you apply FA. However, USC and BU are matches I think. But you never know until you apply.
Good luck!!!</p>