I’ve been having trouble on deciding on safety schools or schools that would be slightly above that. Lots of people have been commenting on me saying that UMich and UVA were my safety schools, and I think I failed to explain myself. OSU is my safety school. It’s the only one, because I know that I will get in. However, I’m not a huge fan of OSU (should I get rejected from everywhere else I would be content with going there, but if I get in to any other school I will go there over OSU), and schools like UMich and UVA are schools that I believe that I have a high chance to get into, and are schools that should I only get accepted to say UVA and OSU, I would choose UVA. In the same pool with UVA and UMich, I’m thinking about applying to Case Western, UPitt (honors program, multiple kids from my school have gone to UPitt for honors), and a few others of that tier if I can find more I’d be okay with. The idea here is that I’ll apply to a few Ivies (Penn and Princeton, both more or less shots in the dark), and then have another tier (WashU and Vanderbilt, where I would be very happy with going), followed by a lower tier (The safety school being OSU and schools like UVA and UMich being schools that I would much rather attend that OSU. I don’t care/expect to get accepted to all the schools in the less desired tier, I just have them because the chance that if I apply to say Case, UMich, UVA, and UPitt and not get accepted to any is a lower chance than me getting into both Ivies).
If anyone is still reading this for the chance me part, I think I’ll replace Spanish Club with volunteering at the hospital (even tho it was only for the summer before senior year) mainly because despite holding office in Spanish Club I don’t really care about it (it was just for fun) and at the hospital I work in the pathology lab and with the histotechs which I feel would do more to set me apart from other applicants.