<p>The One Safety that I have is a guarantee due to a state rule that we have, and its one of those "public ivy's" so its not bad all to fall back on and I would choose it over any other safety. So my question is...Whats the use of another safety? lol</p>
<p>Well, say worst case scenario you only get accepted to your safety, then you have to, unless you want to go to community college, if you apply to 2 or 3 then you have a chouce among the safeties, i think its better to apply to 2 or 3.</p>
<p>Remember, there is always a chance that you will end up attending your safety. That seems like obvious advice, but you’d be surprised at the number of people who pick safety schools that they intend to just transfer out of ASAP. If you’re happy with the safety, and sure you’re going to get in, there’s no need for more than one.</p>
<p>I would apply to two, just out of worry of some paperwork issue or policy change.</p>
<p>In less uncertain times I’d agree with you, but state budget shortfalls could change the rules. That happened to many students this year when colleges in our state announced early that they wouldn’t be taking any more applications for the year. So I would have a “safety safety,” just to be… well… safe. And if the two safeties have rolling deadlines, I’d be writing that application now and submitting it in August or early September.</p>
<p>Yes, as long as it’s a financial safety too.</p>
<p>OKay so in my state if you are within top 10% you can attend the State University. Should I just only apply to that school if I’m in top 10% for sure?</p>
<p>Yes, yes, yes. I think this is a really important point to be made. As long as a student is: 1) Guaranteed admission into the safety, 2) Able to afford it, and 3) Happy with it, then there is virtually no reason to apply to any other safeties.</p>
<p>The only use of having multiple safeties is giving yourself more options if you’re not sure which safety you like best.</p>
<p>as long as your one safety is financially safe as well.</p>
<p>As long as you’re willing to go there, yes.</p>
<p>And as long as you get your application in and accepted before they declare they’re full and cut off applications. Remember the budget shortfall issue.</p>
<p>As long as you don’t mind getting only one college acceptance and all of the rest rejections in Spring.</p>
<p>I think that it’s best to apply to two safeties. This way, in the worst case you will be able to make an affirmative choice to attend your school instead of having to settle. Also after getting so much rejection, it will feel good to turn it around and reject the other safety. Nobody should feel like they backed into their college. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>If its a guaranteed acceptance to the specific public ivy,ie UT Austin, and not just a general guarantee to one of publics any of the other UT schools in the state(please research and understand the difference) than you don’t need to apply to more than one school</p>
<p>California kind of has the same thing with ELC, which is top 4 percent or something of each high school. They are guaranteed admissions to a UC, but the applicant doesn’t have the choice of which UC they are guaranteed a spot at, even if you apply to Berkeley or UCLA only, you might end up rejected because the state rule/law thing is guaranteed a spot at one of the ucs, not at a specific UC. When I was in the top 4 percent coming out of high school, i got a letter in the mail stating that my guaranteed admissions was for UC Irvine. If I would apply to UCI i would be guaranteed admissions.</p>