For above: I applied to many schools (15.) If I could reapply, one thing I'd do differently is not apply to safety schools/places I wasn't excited about. I expected to be easily admitted into these programs and thus be conferred minor confidence boosts among a long slew of rejections, but I didn't get into a single one of my safety schools and so really it just made me feel very bad. Further, whenever I got accepted into a non-safety school my first thought was "this is a mistake! I didn't even get into ___!" So, yeah. I wish I hadn't corrupted the process with safety schools.
I'm likely to make a decision within a week or two.