Safeties!? O.o

College Search & Selection
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<p>Can you suggest safeties?
Are my schools safeties?
-UCSC
Univ of Portland
Univ of Puget Sound
St Marys (CA)
Mills
Seattle
Loyola (New Orleans)
Univ of Alabama Birmingham</p>

<p>Stats:
3.2 GPA
28 ACT
URM Female
President of club</p>

<p>80,000$ Family Income</p>

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<p>Check cost when doing reach/match/safety evaluations. Go to each school’s web site and put “cost of attendance” and “financial aid estimator” in the search box.</p>

<p>Cost safety: You can certainly afford it.
Cost match: You can probably afford it.
Cost reach: You may be able to afford it, but not that likely (e.g. contingent on a reach-level merit scholarship or unusually generous need aid).
Cost out-of-reach: You cannot afford it under any circumstances. It is not worth applying to such a school.</p>

<p>A safety must be both an admissions safety and a cost safety. Being admitted without sufficient financial aid is like a rejection.</p>

<p>For UCSC:</p>

<p>Have you calculated your UC admissions GPA? Calculate using the method here (for CSU, but UC is the same): [CSUMentor</a> - Plan for College - High School Students - GPA Calculator](<a href=“Cal State Apply | CSU”>Cal State Apply | CSU)</p>

<p>What is your state of residency? For out-of-state, your UC admissions GPA must be at least 3.4. Also, UCs are probably out of reach for cost if you need a lot of financial aid.</p>

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<p>Thanks for that! I’m actually instate for UCSC, so I’d qualify for Cal Grant and Blue and Gold scholarships. :)</p>

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<p>I don’t think UCSC is a safety; may not be a match. My son got waitlisted at UCR with similar stats, but that might be a safety. He got in off the waitlist.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/campuses/santa-cruz/freshman-profile/index.html[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/campuses/santa-cruz/freshman-profile/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/campuses/files/santacruz.pdf[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/campuses/files/santacruz.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;