Bryn Mawr and Smith -- safe enough to be my only safeties?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Not that I have any time to fix this now, but am I applying to enough safety schools here?</p>

<p>The list:
Columbia
Yale
Pomona
UChicago
Wesleyan
Scripps
Smith
Bryn Mawr</p>

<p>half-Indian, half-white girl
SAT: 730CR, 740M, 760W
SATII: 690 Math II, 700 Chem (not sending to BM, Scripps, or Chicago)
UW GPA: 3.86
AP's: 4 on European History (which I got an A in), 5 on Biology (which I got a B in, ha.)
Senior year schedule: AP Calc BC, AP Physics C, AP Contemporary Literature, Economics Honors, British and Irish Literature Honors, Art Portfolio, art history seminar at local selective liberal arts college
School: largish public with quite a few kids getting into top colleges every year (basically everywhere but Stanford)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Backstage work, which I've more or less devoted my life to
Lots of art-related things, portfolio [url=<a href="http://lizizzie.carbonmade.com/%5Dhere%5B/url"&gt;http://lizizzie.carbonmade.com/]here[/url&lt;/a&gt;]
Summer program in competitive math
Piano
2 years of tennis
Some volunteer work but not much</p>

<p>Awards:
NMSF
Medals on National Latin Exams every year</p>

<p>Recs:
Sophomore year math teacher who thinks I'm a genius beyond anything she's ever seen
Junior year Constitutional Law teacher who noticed my passion for debate
Theater mentor who has known me for years and has great things to say about my devotion and talent for set design</p>

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<p>Uh… in short, no. Apply to schools that are REAL safeties. You’re competitive for Smith and Bryn Mawr, but to be honest you’re not that academically superior to most of their applicants, and therefore you can’t really call them “safeties.” They’re top 25 LACs.
Also, these schools evaluate apps holistically, and if they don’t like your essays or think you’ll “fit” at the school, they won’t admit you, even though your numbers are good. By the way, why do you judge Bryn Mawr and Smith to be safeties but not Scripps? They seem to be on the same level…
Our lists are kind of similar. My super-safety is Simmons College (app takes 5 seconds unless you apply for the Honors program and is due Feb 1st), and my other fairly safe bets (though I hesitate to call them safeties, exactly) are Bard and Mount Holyoke, whose admissions standards are slightly lower than those of Smith and BMC. Please don’t take a gamble like this. Add a more guaranteed safety and you’ll feel better.</p>

<p>Edited to add: nice portfolio!</p>

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<p>Lol nvm just became a finalist for a merit scholarship at scripps, guess I got in.</p>