<p>"…I figured I would have no problem being accepted."</p>
<p>Figuring that you will be accepted is a very long way from actually knowing that you will be accepted. A safety school, by definition, is a place where you know you will be admitted based on your grades and test scores because that information is posted right on the website and/or your high school has many many years of records that clearly indicated that no one with your profile from that high school who has applied has ever been rejected.</p>
<p>Tell UVA you want to stay on the wait list, and then pop by your guidance counselor’s office early on Monday to make an appointment to talk about the best ways to identify places that will admit you for certain.</p>