<p>There’s some craziness on this site that “no school is a match” or “nobody is guaranteed to get into some schools.” If you’re happy at Rutgers, you don’t need two or three other Safeties. As long as you’re happy at Rutgers, you can make the list as “top heavy” as you want to.</p>
<p>The only thing you might rethink is that once you start actually filling out the applications, you realize that it starts to get to be a lot of work with all the essays. This year, you’d have written separate essays for Harvard/Yale, Princeton, UPenn, Columbia (short-answers), Stanford (short-answer), Brown, and possibly a mix of the others (I didn’t look into applying to them). You might decide to narrow down your list when it actually comes time to apply to all your schools. I did.</p>