<p>For safeties, he may want to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Consider the automatic full-ride schools.</li>
<li>Consider the automatic full-tuition schools, if the remaining cost is affordable.</li>
<li>Check net price calculators on UCs and CSUs; if affordable, some of them may be safeties (selectivity at CSUs and many UCs varies by major, though; e.g. [San</a> Jose State](<a href=“http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-1045.html]San”>http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-1045.html) is probably a safety for some engineering majors, but could be more like a match for some others).</li>
<li>Consider community college, then transfer to a UC or CSU (does not require using up one of the eight applications now).</li>
</ul>
<p>Of course, a safety must offer the major(s) he is interested in, and must be a school that he would like to attend.</p>