Trying to figure out which colleges are reaches and not

So I am entering the second semester of Junior year I have a 3.688 GPA unweighted and weighted a 3.8 weighted along with an SAT of 1430 and I am from California if their is any question for in state or out of state applicant. My family does know a good amount of investment bankers in NYC so I do have some connections if that helps figure out any college. Now my list is comprised of Oregon, IU, Penn State, Michigan State, Wisconsin-Madison, Ohio State, Uconn, GWU, SDSU, UT Austin, UC San Diego, Boston College, UVA, UNC Chapel Hill, Michigan, UC Berkeley, NYU, Georgetown, UCLA, USC, Cornell, Upenn, Princeton, University of Chicago, Stanford university. Now this list is not final of course and I'm trying to narrow it down I'm looking for feedback on which schools are targets, semi targets, and non targets for investment banking, which schools should be removed and which schools should be added that are good targets or semi targets for investment banking, and which schools are reaches, which ones are targets for me, and which schools are safeties. 

 

Copying an old comment. If you have time and start early, why not apply to all of those? You can apply to all the reaches and your safeties through the Common App and Coalition. It's worth a shot.

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  1. Wharton/Harvard
  2. Yale/Columbia/Dartmouth
  3. Princeton/Cornell/Chicago/MIT/Brown/Stanford/Northwestern/Duke/etc
  4. ND/UVA/Stern/Georgetown/Michigan/Vanderbilt/Williams/USC/JHU/etc
  5. UT Austin/UNC/Emory/etc
  6. CMC/Middlebury/CMU/Rice/WashU/etc
  7. Lehigh/PSU/Villanova/Indiana/Florida/etc

Realistically, it's more like this, for any high schoolers actually interested. This is mostly based on per placement capita, interest from the student body and % of IB classes. Of course, I think I'm mixing in a bit of buy-side prowess in here, but that would be a whole different list, with WHPD making up the top 4. Just my 2 cents as my team's recruiting lead. "

 

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