<p>If the school’s admissions are purely stats based, and they publish the stats needed or which applied to recent admissions classes (e.g. [SJSU</a> Admission](<a href=“http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-1199.html]SJSU”>http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-1199.html) , <a href=“http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/out_of_state.html[/url]”>http://scholarships.ua.edu/types/out_of_state.html</a> ), and you are comfortably above the stated thresholds (allowing for raised standards that may occur due to increased application volume), then it is an admissions safety.</p>
<p>However, don’t forget that a safety must also be safe from a cost point of view and must otherwise be a school you are willing to go to (has the major(s) you are interested in, etc.).</p>