<p>ok, sorry for posting outdated info--my mistake!</p>
<p>bri, nice work!</p>
<p>My ultimate, ultimate, if God really wanted to punish me, safety: Mount San Antonio College (local community college). I applied and got accepted, although its basically impossible to be rejected.</p>
<p>Other than that, UCSD is my only other safety.</p>
<p>I gotta figure this all out in the next few days but right now it looks like my ultimate safety would be St. Joseph's U. in Philly.</p>
<p>UVA as a pure safety, but my other three schools (Cornell, Northwestern and Georgetown) are all some kind of legacy, so they're somewhere between safety and match. The only real excitement is Stanford then, I s'pose :)</p>
<p>UVA is "pure" safety? I thought they were pretty high up there. They have a 99 for Princeton Review's selectivity rating. I guess it depends on your stats, but it still seems pretty risky not to have anything a little less competitive.</p>
<p>Isn't UVA ranked second in top public schools, right under Berkeley? I guess it's just how you define match and saftey. </p>
<p>My Safety: University of Florida (top 50 academic school, top party school); I'm also applying to UCB and Columbia, which are reaches.</p>
<p>By the way, CAN you get rejected from a community college? I was under the impression that you couldn't.</p>
<p>harvards my safety</p>
<p>My safety: University of Texas at Austin (Honors Engineering Program)</p>
<p>By law they have to accept me, so yes. It is a pure safety. Fortunately it has a decent engineering program (top 10 in nation).</p>
<p>ok i was joking about harvard being my safety thing. i better not have jinxed myself</p>
<p>UVA is very selective, but the school I go to is a massive, massive feeder to it. Looking at the stats last year we sent 317 applications to UVA and of them 247 were admitted and 146 matriculated out of a class of just over 400. I don't mean to brag - a lot of kids from my school use UVA as a safety or fall back of some kind.</p>
<p>let's keep this thread going. if i don't get in i'm applying: HY, Rice, JHU, Brown, UMich (already applied in Oct)</p>
<p>Yeah, my SAFETY safeties (I'm already accepted) are Purdue and Univeristy of Illinois (both engineering programs, which are actually really good). But my "silly girl, don't be c0cky and say it but it's kinda true" safeties are Northwestern and University of Chicago (my best recommendation was from my English teacher, who went to UoC for grad school...). Those are safteies that are actually MATCHES... I think most people have those. It's VERY possible I'll get rejected form them (I would never say anything is certain, and I would never want to be pretentious and c0cky), but I'm a really strong candidate for them, too. Which is something I can't say for Stanford, MIT, H and Y, all of which I'm applying to(assuming MIT doesn't work out, which is highly likely).</p>
<p>Safety: Berkeley, UCLA, and Cornell</p>
<p>cornell as a safety? interesting blankspace</p>
<p>anyways, mine are Binghampton, some HBCU(havent decided yet, and i hope i wont have to attend) UMd or UPitts</p>
<p>I've changed my mind. Looks like Arizona State, which gives me a full ride, will be my ultimate safety. They have a really neat Honors College and the Nobel Prize winner in Econ teaches there.</p>
<p>uhh Emory, UMich as safeties</p>
<p>Safety is UofArizona, considering that, after tuition, I'd be profiting somewhere along the lines of $19,000/yr to attend (they've offered me a ridiculous number of scholarships... many related to being a National Merit scholar, and several others).</p>
<p>If I win another UofA scholarship that I'm a finalist for, it'll bump up to $29,000/yr.</p>
<p>I dunno, it's a pretty good school, and that money is really starting to look really attractive. What would you do?</p>
<p>Yeah that's what its like for me for ASU, Raven. I would receive $20K/year for Nat'l Merit, enough to cover room and board and books and all for 4 years, not a bad deal...</p>
<p>Boston College is my safety safety safety...UCSD, UCD are my safeties, Emory is a little more on the safety side for me, but not really a safety.</p>
<p>not applying to safeties</p>