<p>I suppose our daughter’s safeties are </p>
<p>Penn State - 52% (hopefully Schreyer Honors College, but that’s no sure thing)
Pitt - 56% (my understanding is that the Honors College here is strictly numbers driven so she should be fine)
Catholic University - 63% This is probably her first choice in safeties colleges, but they’ll need to come through with some serious merit $.
St. Joe’s - 78% We feel pretty confident that she’d get at least 20k of merit aid here based on other students we know. She could commute if she had to.
Drexel - 75% They will probably give her some merit money, but even if they don’t, it’s a safety if she commutes.
Temple 67% (Honors College) This is her true, least favorite safety. I doubt she’ll apply if she hears back quickly from any of these others. Based on her test scores and GPA, Temple would have no tuition and she could commute if she had to.</p>
<p>As I said, CUA is probably her top choice and probably where she’ll end up going. It’s also the least “safe” simply because she may not get enough merit money to make it feasible for us. She also has a couple of top tier schools that she likes very much but she’s playing the merit money lottery at them and we don’t want her to get her hopes up too high. She should get into most (all?) of them, but depending upon the school, only 15 to 30 freshman receive any kind of merit money and so the odds are very, very slim that she’ll be chosen. </p>