Parents think UCLA and USC are safety schools.

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@xiggi

For a bit of perspective, how many students do you think are accepted at Stanford, Caltech, and by an Ivy League had acceptances at Cal, USC, or UCLA? And considered the latter to be part of the routine work of the application? And their safety! </p>

<p>Take the example of just one school in California.</p>

<p>With a graduating class of about 170-180 students, the school had a total of close to 480 admissions at USC, Cal, and UCLA for the past three years. That is a whopping 160 per year. Even if every acceptance was part of a multiple admission at all three, you still have a full 1/3 of the class being admitted at those schools.</p>

<p>Of course, it is Harker, but the point remains the same.</p>

<p><a href=“College Acceptances | Upper School | The Harker School”>College Acceptances | Upper School | The Harker School

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<p>That Harker list shows all of the other UCs other than Riverside and Merced with even more acceptances than Berkeley, UCLA, and USC. The numbers do not necessarily imply that Harker students are considering those schools as safeties, even though they are commonly applied to and admitted by.</p>

<p>Harker is one of the most academically elite high schools in its area, so it is not really representative of high schools in general.</p>