Are my safeties really safeties?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Tell me if you guys think that the following schools are worthy of safety status or are they slighty above</p>

<p>Here are my stats
Indian Senior living in NY
very competitive public high school
ranked in the top 500 high schools in the nation</p>

<p>GPA: 3.75-3.8 Rank: top 20% (sophomore got incredibly sick during the year and it hurt my rank and my GPA, would have been a 4.0, my counselor will explain in the rec letter.)
Recs will be very good to excellent, 2 teachers one that had me for two years (Comp Sci +AP Comp Sci) knows me well, and other really liked me.
SAT: 1420 M+V with a 710 on Writing probably gonna retake not 100% sure yet though.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Full time job over summer worked for NYPIRG campaign to save environment
previous job at dad's office and a cashier job (1-2 years)
Volunteer Red cross (3 years)
Started my own business of building computers (learned how to do this)
that business lasted for about 2 years
Intramural Basketball (4+ years)
Went to India 2 summers ago took a class on AutoCAD software(now fluent). (4+years)
Video Editing and Photo Editing
Videography and Photography (4+ years)</p>

<p>Schools:
UT Austin
Pace University</p>

<p>This is my complete list of schools i'm applying to
UT Austin
Pace University
Stanford (EA)
NYU
UChicago
UCLA
UC-Berkeley
UPenn</p>

<p>APs:
AP Comp Sci-4
AP Macro Econ-currently taking
AP Calculus AB-currently taking
AP Gov-currently taking</p>

<p>Thanks for the help!</p>

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<p>UT Austin has a tremendous preference for in-state applicants. Consequently, you cannot call it a safety school. Also keep in mind that the public schools to which you are applying will probably not give you very much financial aid. I would imagine, however, that you are well off and you are applying to these schools because they are cheaper than privates.</p>

<p>Pace is probably a safety for you.</p>

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<p>Financial Aid isn't a big concern at this point, sure getting scholarships would be awesome but right now i'm just focused on getting in.</p>