Parents think UCLA and USC are safety schools.

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<p>If the parents think UCLA and USC are safeties, they probably know nothing about the elite New England boarding schools so this may be moot, but I’m looking at the Naviance scattergrams for both universities based on applicants from Choate, and I see plenty of red Xs (denied) for students with high GPAs and test scores. Certainly not safeties even for students from well-known rigorous programs. The OP’s parents are woefully misinformed.<<<</p>
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<p>And so are you if you believe that the Naviance information of Choate represents anything more than a small and mostly irrelevant pixel on the screen of the UC system. After all, what is the ROI for a Choatie on settling for a public university on the left coast? </p>

<p>There is a world of difference between how OOS students from a small elite boarding school with historical ties to other elite schools and your typical California students are perceived. To clarify this point, think yield and revealed preferences. In simple terms, there is little interest to admit students who have obvious better options than a MASSIVELY overpriced public school system. What is that called again? Oh yeah, that Tufts deal! </p>