Update - now in at Villanova too!
Okay - I will post. I was reluctant to post because I know people are going to debate the label “safety” for many of these or perhaps all of them. We based this on our counselor’s recommendations and what’s done is done (fortunately, it did work out for us but not without a lot of angst).
So here it goes - I’m sure it will spur lots of conversation. I am naming them all but feel funny publicly calling any school a safety, especially after what we just experienced, so I am not going to do it. Many of these schools had a 50/50 chance based on scores and stats and school relationship and several of these schools had never denied someone with as high of stats as my daughter per Naviance. As my GC said the other day, it almost seems like you have to ED to your safety. . . I do think the definition of safety should be auto admit - that is not what our definition was going in but it will be for my younger kids. Hope this is helpful.
BC - ACCEPT
BU - WL
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke - denied
Emory - denied
Michigan - deferred
Northwestern - denied
Penn
Princeton
Tulane - WL
USC
Vanderbilt
Villanova - ACCEPT
Wake Forest