<p>If you go to the Princeton Review's online counsler and enter perfects stats and max out all the options (play max amount of instruments and do max amount of activities, relations with every Ivy, famous parents, etc.) you can make Yale come up as a safety school.</p>
<p>Interestingly, you have no reaches and all other Ivy's become matches. Someone doesn't like Yale over there.</p>
<p>o k... and PR basically um sucks?... it's a crapshoot; don't trust ne online system lol</p>
<p>Yale is a safety if you have legacy status that can be traced back to the founding, if you have building(s) named after you, you have a 4.0 GPA with the #1 rank at a top prep school, you have a 2400 SAT and 800 on 5 SATIIs, and if you are recruited for football.</p>
<p>In case you didn't notice, my post was poking fun at the site's online counsler. It's obviously not a safety for anyone.</p>
<p>Actually it is. If you have a HUGE legacy at the school (as in Bush family, Skull and Bones), then you are in.</p>
<p>Goes for any school really. But it wouldnt help your legacy if you turned down Yale would it...</p>
<p>HAhaha. I laughed when I saw the title of the thread. Funny how some ORDINARY people like to say that Yale is not their reach school, but rather their low match school... I cannot imagine where they got that idea from!</p>
<p>A pretty sure bet: low income, URM recruited athlete from inner city school with a 2400.</p>
<p>Another pretty sure bet: quadruple legacy at Yale, and each member of the family that went to Yale hates Harvard and donated a building (or three) to Yale. (coughcough George Bush coughcough)</p>
<p>^If Bush hates Harvard, why did he go there for business school?</p>
<p>It was my safety over Tufts and Brown. Transfering, already accepted Yale and Tufts, waiting for Brown. I'll be deciding between Tufts and Brown if accepted there. IR major</p>
<p>If you click on the Statistics link, you can see that they erroneously marked Yale's selectivity as "95". I advised them of that several months ago, but received a "thanks...but" reply.</p>
<p>Of course you know that you can't take that sort of advice seriously.</p>
<p>Like you said, you entered the data such that you were a perfect candidate - perfect grades, perfect SAT scores, super-musician, super-athlete, legacy, URM, super-this, super-that...So yes, for this SuperApplicant, Yale would be a safety. For a real live applicant? I don't think so, because I have yet to meet someone who is that accomplished.</p>
<p>It says "match" for Yale for my stats but "reach" at all other Ivies. Plus, Yale is defiantly <em>not</em> a match for me. Non-legacy, non-URM, scores in the mid range, ect.</p>
<p>I think the Counselor-o-matic is funny.</p>