<p>I was wondering how many students starting college this fall will be attending a school they considered a safety. Do you feel ok with it? Do you still long for your reaches and matches? Are you planning to transfer even before starting your freshman year?</p>
<p>youre on college confidential, tourguide--the last place on earth to find many people attending safeties.</p>
<p>I'm around the 75% for SAT scores at my school. So, yeah. I guess I am</p>
<p>I wouldn't call 75% of the SAT range a safety school. I was w/l at two schools where I was above that.</p>
<p>Well, the school I'm attending isn't a top-20 school and doesn't offer a waitlist and has rolling admissions.</p>
<p>you go to Umich?</p>
<p>I will proudly be attending moving in at my safety school in 19 days!</p>
<p>Though, it's not because I didn't get in anywhere else--more like since Maryland was a safety, better scholarship oppurtunities were available that made it extremely appealing to attend...far more so than the uber-expensive reach and matches that accepted me.</p>
<p>no (ten char)</p>
<p>I'm not, but our sal is going to Stevens after turning down Columbia, so...</p>
<p>the year before last I attended my safety school. </p>
<p>I was throwing together applications within the first few weeks of classes.</p>
<p>Im over the 75th percentile for SAT scores</p>
<p>but under the 25th percentile in GPA, so what would the school be for me?</p>
<p>rolen 27-I would say match/slight reach.</p>
<p>I know several people who graduated this year (I'm a rising senior) with amazing stats in every field who will be attending their safety (see my location to guess what it could be...)....and not by their own choice.</p>
<p>It has made me very paranoid...</p>
<p>^That's is why the mantra of the parents on this board is "love your safety."</p>
<p>I will be attending my safety (PSU) and already vaguely thinking about the possibility of attempting to transfer.</p>
<p>Also being from Gainesville, like pinnipotto (what school are you at btw?), most everyone I know got into some really amazing schools, and turned them down to go to UF. It's hard to turn down bright futures, plus national merit money if you're lucky to get it. Most of those people ended up being really happy with their decisions and are having a great time, with no regrets.</p>
<p>I had to attend my safety school (UIUC ECE) because my other apps were to MIT and Stanford. I sucked it up, kicked some ass, and now attend Stanford for grad school. :)</p>
<p>UVA wasn't my safety, but I probably could have gotten into a "better" school (I'm Echols here). However, to me, there WAS no better school. </p>
<p>A world-class education free of core requirements, in the most beautiful setting I could imagine, with unmatched social life and nationally ranked D1 sports, all for a fraction of what I could pay elsewhere? Sold.</p>
<p>I'm betting that 90% of kids who attend their "safeties" do so because the never had "the talk" with their parents -- the one that told them exactly how much the parents were willing to spend. </p>
<p>So, while they may have gotten into "great" schools, their parents balked at the price...</p>
<p>^ good point.</p>