Good advice from one of those articles: "Students who get denied from every school they apply to most likely didn’t apply for safety schools. Don’t be that student."
All but one of the schools listed has an acceptance rate of <10% and are in the top 20 lowest acceptance rate schools. The 90+% that those schools are rejecting aren't 1350 SAT kids hoping for a miracle. While only 1% of students score 1500+ on the SAT, that's 30,000 students, probably all applying to the same set of schools, most of which enroll 1000-1500 freshmen. Those scoring that high are likely highly motivated and have excellent other tests, extracurriculars, etc., etc.
I'd suggest more research, but Michigan is probably in that safety tier (relative to the others), and Maryland/Illinois and a few others would fit.
My DD17 was accepted 3 weeks after applying, in early October, to the local (Top 50 national) university, and a few weeks later to a top 10 engineering program. These early acceptances certainly eased the wait for the rest of the stretch schools.
