safeties needed

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>hi, thanks for all of you who have responded to my previous threads about my chances at my dream colleges: wellesley, brown, nyu, tufts. annnd they're all reaches. so i definitely need some safeties so i don't go crazy when/if i get rejected. i want to major in english. </p>

<p>possible safeties: boston univ, UCSD...more please? </p>

<p>GPA:~4.0 weighted, quite a few b's and 3 b-'s. (I know, I told you I was a slacker, but my public HS is one of the best in CA so I hope that weighs in?) my unweighted is 3.68.</p>

<p>APUS: 5
AP Bio: 4 (I thought this was okay until I looked at the AP forums!)</p>

<p>I will take AP Calc AB, AP Lit, and AP Spanish Senior year.</p>

<p>SAT I: (only taken once in March, retake in Oct): w: 740 cr: 800 m: 670
SAT II:
Lit: 760
US Hist: 730 (May) 770 (June)
Math IC: 580 (ouch, long story) shoud I take the IIC so as not to leave this blemish on my record? my math is shaky at best.
Writing: 790</p>

<p>Extracurrics: (I'm getting this from my resume thing so sorry if it sounds really detailed and stupid)
School newspaper (Section Editor)
National magazine:Served as political correspondent by attending New Hampshire primaries and writing articles on politics)
Soundings School Literary Magazine
ASB (Head Commissioner of Newsletter)
Mosaic Newspaper
Cupertino Historical Society
Stanford Sociology/Psychology intern
Children’s Discovery Museum
Sedgwick Autistic Program (Received Outstanding Service Award)
Yang-Ching Chinese Percussion
Studio 10 Dance
Fong Art Studio
Grail Family services (Illustrated children’s novel to promote literacy)
Villa Montalvo (Received “Exceptional Service Award” )
Key Club
Chinese School</p>

<p>Honors/Awards:
1st prize, Third New Century International Youth Fine Art Contest Committee
Your Magazine—won essay contest; invited to write for the magazine and website, covering the primary elections in New Hampshire
Ladies Home Journal; Wrote article that was published on primary election visit
1st place winner, World Journal International Art Contest (11); Published in newspaper
Poetic Power-in Celebrations of Young Poets book
TeenInk Poetry Journal
Mosaic Journalism workshop-Most Accurate Reporting, accepted into the workshop (only 20 from Bay Area). Work appeared in Nuevo Mundo and San Jose Mercury News</p>

<p>I know I can do good essays and decent to great recs.</p>

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<p>you could do SUPER safties like University of Illionois or a good one might be University or Michigan. Maybe UNC. ?? I don't really know.</p>

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<p>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! UNC is not a safety for ANYBODy, especially out of state. American University, University of Vermont, Northeastern, BU(as you mentioned), Alfred University, Adelphia University, GWU(more of a match/safety), SUNY's, Pepperdine, Hampshire, Kalamazoo, Marlboro, UPittsburgh, Penn State, UConn, UMaryland.</p>

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<p>Villanova and Notre Dame are excellent safeties...</p>

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<p>toffee:</p>

<p>UCSD: Safe Match</p>

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<p>heyhey what is this? how can anyone call Umaryland out of state a safety? Notre Dame is no one's safety. BU and GWU are not usually safeties with the number of applicants they get. Hampshire is never a safety, it's too small of a school, and if you don't fit their criteria you're not in. It's a stretch to call Pepperdine a safety.</p>

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<p>so..namaste...got any schools that ARE safeties?</p>

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<p>UMD-CP or BC is DEFINITELY a safety. I know someone who got in with like 3.3 one AP(senior year), no ECs, only library volunteering, 1200 SAT. His essay wasn't that great either. He was always worrying about his SAT score and he got in out-of-state. Btw he is asian(korean).</p>

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<p>"UMD-CP or BC is DEFINITELY a safety. I know someone who got in with like 3.3 one AP(senior year), no ECs, only library volunteering, 1200 SAT."
I don't think you can judge the chances of getting into a school based upon people who are, seemingly, outliers. For example, I know someone who was accepted to Penn with a 1270 and was not recruited for varsity athletics.</p>

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<p>well this is UMD we are talking about. It's not some crazy IVY that is a crapshoot.</p>

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<p>does this matter: i'm a CA resident, asian-american (taiwanese). </p>

<p>thanks for the safeties so far, guys. are they strong in english though? thanks!</p>

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<p>bumping it up. is bryn mawr a good safety?</p>

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<p>I've heard that UMD-CP likes to take out-of-state students, so that may have helped the person with low stats. Bryn Mawr is a good school. I would not normally call it a safety, except for people with great stats. However, you have some real achievements in writing and the arts, and they will probably love that. It's probably pretty safe.</p>