<p>I love all my safety schools- Hood, Lynchburg and Goucher. I really don't think of them as safetys in the traditional sense... I wouldn't mind going to any of them. They're all great schools.</p>
<p>I'm just worried about getting rejected because my ACT is way higher than their averages and my GPA is a little higher as well. I didn't get the chance to visit those schools because my mom works all the time and can't take me so far away.</p>
<p>So yeah, I feel a bit stupid that I'm crossing my fingers that I get into my safetys.</p>
<p>It's called the United States Military. I personally just couldn't manage to go to a "safety" for four years---I'd have the feeling of failure looming over my head the entire time.</p>
<p>I'm already in 3 (and I'm pretty much in the 4th) and I will hopefully have full rides @ 2 (I should automatically qualify for a full ride @ 1) and I have about half-tuition @ the other 2 (if I don't get the full ride @ the non-automatic place, I still already have a scholarship worth about 60% the total tuition+roomboad)</p>
<p>I'm pretty well covered.. just I don't have much middle ground >>; I'm fairly uppermatch/reach heavy</p>
<p>I applied to a series of reaches and safeties early, including the Tech combos, so that now whatever happens in RD, I already know that I have Caltech as my safety.</p>
<p>I would recommend that everyone apply to a host of EA schools instead of ED or SCEA so that they can gain some assurances early and thus can focus on reach schools only during the RD round.</p>
<p>wow so Caltech is your safety??crazy
I got into RPI, SUNY Binghamton and Illinois Tech...They are my safeties.
Cooper U is sort of a safety, but I get the feeling ill get in.</p>
<p>I have a safety. Since I am in top 10%, I can go to UT-Austin, Texas A & M.
If you are in top 10% of the class in your high school in Texas, you can go to any public university in Texas.</p>
<p>Last year, my proposed safeties were Brandeis U, Washington U. in St. Louis, and Oberlin College. My ultra-safety was Lake Forest College. I only picked safeties that I visited in person (all except Lake Forest), and that I liked a lot. </p>
<p>Washington U. in St. Louis basically accepted me before I even applied (which I never actually did). They waived my application fee and I got all kinds of offers and scholarships and junk. They had the department I wanted, and it was very appealing, but I decided that I didn't want to be in St. Louis and I could probably get into a more competitive institution, which I did (Princeton ED).</p>
<p>My D has several friends who applied to safeties early, and they have been accepted at these safeties, but they are not schools that the kids really want to go to? Why apply to a school at all if you are not crazy about it?</p>
<p>^ For fun, because you can, because later in the year you may change your mind, because you may want to beat a friend in the contest for most schools applied to....</p>
<p>"tokyo, how did Washington "know" about you if you hadn't even applied?"</p>
<p>Well Washington U. in St. Louis had been sending me information for months before I applied, probably a result of the Talent Search thing which accompanies the SAT test. Then I sent their preliminary information packet (which they sent two copies of) a month or so before the time I would have submitted the common application (WUSTL doesn't really have a supplement, just additional information like programs of interest, etc.) just so they would make a file for me. After they received the preliminary info supplement they started bombarding me with letters: flyers for scholarships, scholarship application forms, departmental brochures (something usually seen after acceptance), various promotional e-mails, and even a letter saying that they will waive my application fee. </p>
<p>I was really surprised how hard they were recruiting me, although I can't say its something new because Northwestern did the same thing to my older brother (waived his application fee, yada yada yada...) when he applied there. He turned down Northwestern for Dartmouth in the end. </p>
<p>I'm pretty sure this is what happens when you reveal yourself as some kind of potential asset to the school, either being a URM, or having an unusual academic interest (or both), or you are just a highly valuable candidate in their opinion for some other reason. Who knows.</p>
<p>According to my university counselor, my safeties are Bryn Mawr, Macalester, and Wellesley. Privately, I think Wellesley is a match and the two others are "likelies" (so my counselor is more optimistic than I am!). My last-resort safety is Uppsala University in Sweden. It's an adorable college town, and it's supposed to be a good school academically, but I'm not too thrilled with the idea of having to attend a university with 40,000 undergrads and take courses in Swedish (I'm fluent and speak it at home, but much prefer to speak and write in English)... so I'm hoping it won't come to that.</p>
<p>yup i have one. uni of wyo. seriously half of the USA has never heard of wyoming, and plus im already guaranteed admission there. Unless i commit murder.</p>