i'm going to buffalo in like 3 weeks for school and from the interview process i thought they were pretty insightful about my application. for example, i had a ****load of research, which a lot of schools didn't care about, but at buffalo they asked me about it. i think they'll really like that you're from buffalo and its your number one school. i'm from sunny so cal so i felt that they were really worried i wouldn't want to go to buffalo. i for one had a 21 AA/18 PAT, which i feel is high for buffalo (minus the crappy PAT). basically, don't sweat it