<p>Kind of embarassing, but it was Indiana University. Got in at ALL the others so I guess I can laugh about it.</p>
<p>What made you think it was a safety college? By definition, </p>
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<p>a safety college is one you can count as a sure bet for admission.</p>
<p>^ People get rejected by safety colleges all the time…there is no true safety college that you can 100% be sure you will get in, there simply isn’t, and it’s denying reality if you think there is a true safety college. You just have a higher chance at the “safety college”, that’s all.</p>
<p>The admission rate is 65%, which counts as a borderline safety school, I think (closer to the safety).</p>
<p>There are colleges that admit essentially 100 percent of their applicants. There are also a lot more colleges that admit all of their applicants with reasonable qualifications, rejecting only the applicants who are plainly unready for college. Evidently Indiana University is somewhat more selective than that these days, but what was it that the OP was looking at when considering IU a safety college?</p>
<p>People get rejected by safety colleges all the time…there is no true safety college that you can 100%…</p>
<p>I beg to differ. Its called the University of North Dakota 
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<p>Moreover, there are a few hundred colleges with explicit open-admission policies, which means that BY POLICY they admit all applicants with a complete application file (possibly including a high school diploma or GED, but often with no other requirements at all). </p>
<p>Anyway, I still hope we will hear from toledo about what the thought process was that went into building his college application list.</p>
<p>If he got accepted by more competitive schools, perhaps it was yield protection?</p>
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<p>Not true. Tulane was my safety.
Louisiana residents have a guaranteed admissions program so long as you have the required minimum gpa and scores (28 act, 3.5 gpa).</p>
<p>I picked one school where, based on past statistics of admitted students, was a pretty sure bet. I was actually waitlisted. Personally, I’ve never believed any college is a sure bet for anyone and now I believe that more than ever. This had to happen to others out there. </p>
<p>I agree with infinate truth on this one.</p>
<p>Ha-Ha, boomer, parents went to North Dakota.</p>
<p>that isn’t really true either, in oregon if you have a 3.5 gpa you have guaranteed admission into the Oregon School System. Like Uo and OSU</p>
<p>^Also the top 10% in CA and TX are guaranteed into one of the state schools (although haven’t a lot of those been shifted to UC Merced? But still, it’s a UC none the less).</p>
<p>The GCs at my daughters high school recommend that you apply to six schools: two safeties, two matches, and two reaches. (Of course some apply to only one rolling admission school and see what happens, and some apply to a dozen.)</p>
<p>Two safeties is good. For most people, it means that in the end, you have a choice - you are not feeling “forced to go to your safety.” For some people, like the OP, a safety school turns out not to be a safety after all, but because you had two listed, you still have one - if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>IF you were denied by your safety, then it truly couldnt have been your safety. When you pick a safety you need to pick one that has standards considerably lower then yours may be. So then if you get rejected by all others, you still got into one.</p>
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<p>Exactly. That’d be defeating the whole point of a safety. Methinks people on CC just tend to be a little arrogant in choosing schools (Ex. “Tufts and UCLA are my safeties…” and the like).</p>
<p>Tufts is no longer considered a safety school.</p>
<p>My D was rejected by one of her safeties, waitlisted by another and accepted at one. Accepted at Chicago and BC among others, so go figure.</p>
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<p>Neither are schools like Berkeley and UCLA, but some people seem to think they are. Hell, I’ve seen some students on CC consider Chicago a safety because of its acceptance rate…</p>
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<p>Err, there’s some recursive logic going on here.</p>
<p>Safety doesn’t mean “sure bet” but “very probable bet” – 90% chancee of you getting in.</p>
<p>Also, yield protection might be an unanticipated issue.</p>
<p>Gettysburg (:.</p>