<p>Cornell with legacy was the closest to a safety that I had on my list, honestly</p>
<p>NYU if I can convince my parents to cough up the money</p>
<p>Syracuse would have been safety but I didn't want to go to school with my brother (hes a grad student. It has a great basketball team and campus is pretty nice. Academics are good for engineering at least. Have you ever been to Syaracuse 26e?)</p>
<p>Oregon State University is back up. Ahead of that is Villanova and WUSTL and Lehigh.</p>
<p>I can't believe that you would even think of WUSTL as a safety. It is ranked #11 in US News and it is definately one of the rising universities in the country. WUSTL is actually my second choice after Penn so I can't believe anyone calling it a safety because I know a few kids last year with amazing stats who got rejected last year, so I wouldn't call it easy by any standards.</p>
<p>With WUSTL, it depends on where you're from and (I think) whether you've shown serious interest, as in traveling out there. My school has had top kids (that got into Penn) rejected by WUSTL on a regular basis. The kids that did get in to WU showed serious interest. Despite their ad campaign for apps, they are very concerned about yield, apparently.</p>
<p>Penn State. . . come on, if I don't get into ND or Penn, I'll go to Happy Valley and party for four years (and still get straight As!)</p>
<p>My mom doesn't think Seton Hall is a safety school for me, as they only accept 87% of applicants. I guess I could never get in there, being instate, 4.0, 2240. Never.</p>
<p>My safety school is american university.</p>
<p>Hm... I don't think anyone from my school has ever been to WUSTL. I know its a good school but looking at its average scores I thought of it as a kinda safety. From the ammount of mail it sent me I thought it was recruiting me, but from maybe not if your comments are right. I really like the area though and your comments make me very glad I'm applying.</p>
<p>LOL, my school is like WUSTL central. I go to an upper-middle class school in Cincinnati. We have 181 kids in my class and 16 applied to WUSTL. I am #2 out of 181 and got a 2260 and I am 95% sure I will be rejected. </p>
<p>Last year they accepted 2 kids and rejected 7. They are very big on demonstrated interest. Just talk to your adcom about WUSTL if you want to get in.</p>
<p>I requested an interview but that is about as much interest as I have shown. Sadly, I was too busy to spend any more time. If no one applies from your school and your stats are decent, you have a good shot.</p>
<p>Heavy marketing via tons of mail isn't a recruitment technique, rather, a well known strategy that some schools use to increase the number of apps they receive, lowering their acceptance rate and rising in the US News Rankings.</p>
<p>tainter, i'm from syracuse (give or take half an hour)</p>
<p>im from Houston, give or take no minutes</p>
<p>26e: So c'mon, what's the story with the Yale video? My kid applied there and I really think I oughta know. </p>
<p>and you are too close to Syr. to be objective, either about SU or Cornell. Both offer a fine education and setting, just different, and not amherst or philadelphia. There are nearly 20,000 students at SU, presumably most of whom are pleased with their choice. Besides, SU should have a very good basketball team this year.</p>
<p>Please reply re: the video!</p>
<p>oh, it was just some yalies punking hahvahd at the big game</p>
<p>and maybe, but i've been there enough to know the whole depressed economy/people thing in syracuse and buffalo thing better than most</p>
<p>Is it bad that Hopkins is my safety?</p>
<p>They accept everyone and their grandmother from baltimore city public schools, and they waive our tuition too!</p>
<p>yes, that's fine. you guys are just missing the point, though. what's that completely prestige-less, adorable little state school that you love if it had just a few quirks (class size, prestige) remedied. one you almost applied to in spite of yourself (or actually did).</p>
<p>I applied to St. Joe's in PA. I don't know how much prestige they have or anything but that would have been my top choice if I didn't get into Penn, Harvard, Cornell, NYU, Brown, or Boston College.......so it was 7th on my list.</p>
<p>I'm curious to know anything about WUSTL. My friend is applying to that school, and I'm doing whatever I can to help her. Any insights would help.</p>
<p>UCSD, UCD, and possibly John's Hopkins are my safeties.</p>
<p>The fact of the matter is, not many kids of a very high academic calibur would TRULY like to go to a safety school. Why? Because they would feel short-changed--that they could be somewhere a lot better.</p>
<p>With that being said, I don't have a "favorite safety."</p>
<p>Also, I find it pretentious for anyone to list some top schools as safeties, even if they really do have the credentials.</p>
<p>Come on really, JHU as a safety?</p>
<p>Please don't take offense. I'm just pointing out little things that peeve me. A true safety IMO would be a school with 70%+ admit rate.</p>