<p>I just got accepted into my safety school as a Dean's Scholar, less than one week after I submitted my application (HA! I didn't know they even had a chance to read it yet!)... and in my essay and every other aspect of my application (it was the last one that I did, so I was spent), I half-assed it so much that my writing style was almost unrecognizable. </p>
<p>My mother was SOOOOOOO excited, and called everyone to tell them, but I was embarrassed -- embarrassed that I even applied to that school.</p>
<p>Is anyone else completely unsatisfied and unrelieved that they got into their safety schools? I would rather go to the STATE school than this stupid one... It's ridiculous! The only advantage is that I would finish at the top of my class and look really, really good for law school. (The average SAT score is a 420. I'm NOT kidding.)</p>
<p>I wasn't excited when I got into the schools I wanted to for some reason. I was just like, "oh hey neat." But I get really excited when my friends get into the schools they wanted haha</p>
<p>With this post above and your acceptance issue with the Catholic school it appears that you are a very spoiled, immature individual. You need to grow up, take some resonsibility for your own life.</p>
<p>Or I see a lot of contempt of court in your future.</p>
<p>Though other people on this thread are trashing you about it, I feel exactly the same namely because after all, it's my safety school. And, it's exactly where I don't want to be...and I'll have to live at home. My dad was saying the advantage of finishing #1 as a reason to go but, it's not worth it unless you get rejected from everywhere else.</p>
<p>My friend makes fun of the fact I ACTUALLY applied to this school. As you said. But, I need a back-up option if all else fails...miserably.</p>
<p>Almost everyone feels a little ashamed of his or her safety school...that's why it's a safety.</p>
<p>With that in mind...</p>
<p>So, you got in without a sweat! Instead of whining about it, why don't you just see it as a positive...that you can get into a school far better, and that you now know you are guaranteed to go to college.</p>
<p>Hm. Aren't all students guaranteed to go to college (excluding students with monetary or unusual circumstances that interfere)? I'm a bit tired now, so excuse my bluntness, but isn't that the concern that resulted in the formation of community colleges? </p>
<p>SillBill, why didn't you apply to your state school as a safety? You proclaimed a preference for it anyway. Actually, why didn't you find ANY safety that you could see yourself *possibly *enjoying? There are many great, non-competitive schools out there. I'm sure that you could have found one that had many appealing qualities (one being a non-religious community?). </p>
<p>I see that you applied to such schools as Brown, Tufts, Amherst, and MIT. I hope that you are one of those people who just appears "off" on the web, but is really cool in real life, and--with that in mind--I hope that you get into some other schools. I also hope that you applied to some schools under these (at the "bottom of the top," perhaps). If you believe that you are competitive at a school like Amherst, you would probably be an easy "likely" at a school like Clark U (awesome, but lacking the cut-throat admissions dance). You didn't need to resort to a safety like the one you described.</p>
<p>If you end up with your safety and a pile of rejection letters, look into a gap semester or year, or transfer options. </p>
<p>Also, I think that some of the comments on both of SillBill's posts are unnecessarily harsh. I agree with a few of the sentiments, but nastiness while criticizing a high schooler for his immaturity is only hypocritical.</p>
<p>I just got accepted into my safety school as a Dean's Scholar, less than one week after I submitted my application (HA! I didn't know they even had a chance to read it yet!).</p>
<p>Additionally, OP, the school may NOT have had time to read your essay or any additional materials. Your grades and scores probably pushed you in. I doubt that the essay was very important, or even considered, if it was such an extreme safety.</p>
<p>Maybe you are a bit proud of getting in. The "Dean's Scholar" detail and the "HA!" (proud that you were accepted despite that?) reveal something more than apathy or even embarrassment alone. Perhaps you are proud only that your SAT average is not a 420 (per section or cumulative?)? The latter would be a bit odd, but, regardless, I think that you have some emotions mixed up in your acceptance.</p>
<p>... Quite a disgusting post. OP, be grateful you have been accepted at a college, no matter how 'below you' you may think it. There are thousands of other kids who will go to that college and be very happy. That contemptuous attitude is not going to get you anywhere in life. If you did not think it was a fit, or that you would go there, you shouldn't have even applied. No one feels sorry for you for getting into a school you applied to and then realising you don't like it. You need a serious attitude check.</p>
<p>No, SillBill, you didn't get into "your safety school," at least not be any reasonable definition of "safety." You got into a college.</p>
<p>A safety school is one at which a student is reasonably certain of admission, and which a student would be happy to attend. Your admission to the school you're referring to means simply that you didn't spend enough time creating a well-balanced list for yourself. Why did you bother applying there?</p>
<p>Students who created a well-balanced lists and got into their safety schools first (often EA or rolling, at least around here) had one reaction: "I'm going to college!" That's because, while not their first choices, they all could see themselves going to those schools. For some, the safeties ended up being the best choice, or at least near the top, even with other acceptances. My d's safety was her second choice when all acceptances were in; if we couldn't have afforded her first choice, she would happily have gone there.</p>
<p>I hope the rest of the schools on your list were more intelligently selected.</p>
<p>I agree with Chedva. From a parents perspective I think that your list should have been picked a little more carefully. With all of the schools out there, I find it hard to believe that the only safety you could find is one that you are embarrassed about.</p>