<p>So I'm only a sophomore and my stats are foreign(all the ones so far are European) so they probably won't help. Based on rank and acceptance rate only, what would constitute a safety school?</p>
<p>As in would you consider a school with a 35% acceptance rate a safety, or 40% or 65%? </p>
<p>I know your own stats matter in this context but I don't have them yet so I'm really just talking about a rough estimate.</p>
<p>How much will your parents pay?</p>
<p>A safety for an international is one that you know that you’ll have all costs covered and you know that you’ll get accepted to.</p>
<p>If your parents will pay - say $40k per year - and you have decent stats, there are many good state and schools that would accept you.</p>
<p>A 30% acceptance rate is probably not a safety. A school with a 65% acceptance probably is.</p>
<p>My parents can’t pay that much, max 15.000. But I’ll actually be graduating from an American prep-school with a ca. 30% acceptance rate, and already have a pretty big scholarship(extending to college) that I belive will really help me cover that part. </p>
<p>Plus due to the nature of my scholarship I am restricted to certain schools, and most of them offer to back you up, financially, a 100% if you can prove that you need it, even for internationals. </p>
<p>So I was more thinking along the lines of just getting in.</p>
<p>*But I’ll actually be graduating from an American prep-school with a ca. 30% acceptance rate, and already have a pretty big scholarship(extending to college) that I belive will really help me cover that part. </p>
<p>Plus due to the nature of my scholarship I am restricted to certain schools, and most of them offer to back you up, financially, a 100% if you can prove that you need it, even for internationals. </p>
<p>*</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>Can you clarify?</p>
<p>What scholarship do you have and where is it from?</p>
<p>What schools do you have to consider?</p>
<p>What/who has a 30% acceptance rate?</p>
<p>Your thread is about safeties. How would those schools’ costs get covered?</p>
<p>I’d rather not say too much seeing as It’s the kind of information that could get you identified.</p>
<p>I guess it really isn’t possible to find safeties without weighing all sorts of varieables that just doesn’t work online. Thanks for answering anyway :)</p>