Safeties...

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<p>I applied to OSU, Purdue and UIUC - it seems that no one really needs safeties in this forum</p>

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<p>There is only one true safety when applying to Harvard - Yale.</p>

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<p>No safeties here.</p>

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<p>Safeties: None
Reach: All.</p>

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<p>UC Berkeley.</p>

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<p>honestly, college admissions don’t depend on you and if you only apply to reaches or “matches” (every school in the country basically got the highest of number of applicants ever, so a “match” could very well turn into a low reach, and one could wind up rejected from everywhere, because your worth is decided by a panel of admissions officers.</p>

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<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.safetyschool.org%5Dhttp://www.safetyschool.org%5B/url”>http://www.safetyschool.org]http://www.safetyschool.org[/url</a>]</p>

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<p>yep, Yale is my safety</p>

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<p>That would be funny if some over-confident kid used the University of Michigan as his safety and then got rejected from it, along with all of his other schools. What would he do?</p>

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<p>I didn’t apply to any “safety schools” as I would be so far beyond thrilled to attend to any of the places that I’ve applied to, none of them are fallbacks.</p>

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<p>A ton of people I know use UofM as safety. It’s never worked out badly. </p>

<p>Actually, one guy did get rejected, but he got into his first choice, so who cares.</p>

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<p>the yank: do you have a good chance of getting into at least a few of the schools you applied to? I think safety schools are more there to make sure that you’re at least going to college.
I could have applied to only Harvard, Yale and Princeton and I too would be “thrilled to attend to any of the places” but still, what’s the chances that I’d actually get in? Hence the need for a safety.</p>

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<p>natim1: First of all I don’t need fat letters from “a few” schools, I only need an acceptace from one school. Also I applied to more than just HYP, six others and when I look at the list of them I can not point to one and say “I applied here to make sure that I am at least going to college.”</p>

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<p>the yank: where else did you apply?</p>

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<p>Brown, Chicago, Caltech, MIT, Amherst, Reed.</p>

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<p>i was going to apply “safety” to lehigh because i did quite a lot there and one of my supplemental recs was from a teacher there… but i ended up getting into uchicago & georgetown EA so i guess they’re my “safeties.”</p>

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<p>“Brown, Chicago, Caltech, MIT, Amherst, Reed”</p>

<p>Yikes, correct, these are safeties for no one. So why didn’t you apply to a safety?</p>

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<p>^ If worse comes to worse I will take a “forced gap year” and focus on my music for a year. I am a composer of classical music and with a year off I can actually accept some of the commissions that I’ve been getting.</p>

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<p>Food for thought. The young man, known on CC as “Andison”, described below didn’t get off any waitlists that are listed below. He applied to a range of schools during his gap year, was rejected by all schools that he had reapplied to, but did get into some top schools that he hadn’t applied to before. </p>

<p>"This year when he applied to colleges, he selected places where he felt he would be challenged intellectually and that would offer him music opportunities such as good music teachers and fellow students whom he could perform with on a comparable level. His teachers and guidance counselor thought his list commensurate with his love of learning, grades, test scores and course load.</p>

<p>He’s one of 12 National Merit Scholars from our very competitive suburban HS, and four of the other winners -his peers- have been accepted at Stanford, Harvard, MIT and Brown. (don’t yet know about the others) He’s won other types of awards but listing his stats here is not my point.</p>

<p>The results were as follows:</p>

<p>Waitlisted at Oberlin, Swarthmore and Wash U
Rejected at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, U Penn and Columbia"</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/47867-were-picking-up-pieces-but-what-went-wrong.html?highlight=picking+pieces[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/47867-were-picking-up-pieces-but-what-went-wrong.html?highlight=picking+pieces&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Just to let you know, you can apply to McGill or UToronto still and considering how the process is 100% statistics-based you would get in. On top of that, they’re both excellent schools, but who knows whether or not you’d like them (I’m not you, so…ya).</p>