<p>Actually DunninLA, people exactly like you have mentioned (i.e. 2400 SAT, unobjectionable traits, etc.) can’t consider schools like ivys+MIT+Stanford and others of that caliber safeties, or even matches. Believe it or not, schools like HYP are reaches to EVERYONE and admissions at that level are a crapshoot (as you have probably heard before). Wan’t evidence/data to back this claim up? Head on over to threads such as Yale’s SCEA results thread where candidates which are exceptional in almost, if not, every area are denied/deferred admission- People with perfect test scores, perfect gpas, outstanding ECs, glowing LORs, and what not. Look at silverturtle for example, who everyone thought would have been the 1st to get accepted (and really should have been), he was deferred to the RD round for who knows what. No one understands what the reasoning behind the deferral is. At some point certain schools just can’t be called safeties (or even matches), even if the applicant had a flawless application.</p>