<p>@runeknighttx: There are plenty of people who get into all of the top schools they apply to, but none of them doing so with this expectation. A safety school is a school you can identify beforehand as being the school you will 90% likely get into. If the odds of that kid getting into each of those schools were say 1/2, then he still would not have been able to consider them safety schools. And if the odds of getting into each one of those schools were 1/2 for lets say 4000 students, then there would be a number of incidences where students get into all of them. Yet the others with the same odds and merits do not get in to all of them.</p>
<p>If Emma Watson can get rejected from an ivy w/ perfect scores and pro figure skaters like Sasha Cohen with 4.0 gpa’s can get rejected from the ivies, then anyone can with any credentials. Unless you have the perfect application and are a 1st gen URM, then there is no guarantee of getting into a SPECIFIC college. Although, plenty of students with good odds will apply to 5 top schools knowing they will likely get into 1-3 of them.</p>
<p>Tell me you’re not serious. That kind of stats won’t even getyou into a top 20 schools let alone HYPS. Safety is Wharton. LMAO. You must be kidding me</p>
<p>@runeknightx: Is your friend Tyson Mao? The guy who got dumped on national television in Beauty and the Geeks ( or Beast). Or are you taking about Leyan Lo who is a PhD student at Stanford right now?</p>
<p>Got this e-mail as well, although I wasn’t sure what to think of it, at the bottom in italics </p>
<p>“Please note that you are receiving this email as a result of a previous visit to campus, request for information, or preferences you listed when taking a standardized examination.”</p>
<p>I never recall giving out my e-mail adress for anything college related except for the Plan ACT, so I’m not really sure if I got this e-mail through that act or yeah…</p>
<p>I am concerned that your senior year schedule may hurt you with college admissions. Have you looked on college websites to see how many years of foreign language, science, and history/social sciences they recommend? Please, please make sure that you have at least taken all of the courses that are required for Madison, so you have a high quality match school. </p>
<p>Virtually every college fair we attended had a college rep who said that they wanted to see students challenge themselves through high school, taking the most challenging schedule possible. As far as I can tell, you are taking only AP Lit and AP Calc as your academic subjects during senior year. My feeling is that you would be far better served in the admissions process, particularly given the quality of schools you hope to attend, if you beefed up your senior year schedule. Have you talked to your guidance counselor? Is it too late for you to add history, science, and/or a foreign language? If this sounds like too much, or if it’s too conventional a schedule for you, does your school offer classes in Psychology, Economics, Comp Gov? Or could you perhaps take more college classes in humanities subjects that interest you?</p>
<p>You could also ask Stanford students and your fellow applicants on the board what their senior year schedules looked like so you would have some basis for comparison.</p>
<p>Please use the CC search function to find the threads about “Andison,” a stellar applicant (now at MIT) who ended up taking a gap year because he didn’t get into any of the colleges to which he applied. I’m not saying this will happen to you, but Andi’s posts were a real shocker for my family and resulted in my kids including several truly safe schools on their lists. And as everyone else here has said, Wharton isn’t a safe school for anyone. Please have your GC show you a scattergram for students from your school who have been accepted and rejected from Stanford, Penn, and perhaps Madison by GPA and SAT.</p>
<p>“I recently won this state-level drama competition for acting out a physics problem. I’m really passionate about bringing physics to the real world and stuff. Particularly interested in probing the quantum mechanical properties of homeopathic drug delivery systems, which is what I’m going to submit to my local science fair, under guidance of my mentor.”</p>