<p>Well, one problem with my post is that I hadn’t seen the two posts above it when I wrote it. Obviously, everything I said in it had been said two days earlier by Discipulus.</p>
<p>UMTYMP - Just an FYI - UIUC Engineering is a direct admit to your major. </p>
<p>Composite SAT does not always even really matter as such. More important for most colleges is the Core sections.</p>
<p>UT may have an overall easy acceptance rate comparitively, but OOS and getting into Engineering are a whole different prospect. Not exactly a safety school. Those who get IN to MIT can usually get into many programs, but just being in the ballpark to apply does not mean you are a lock to many other solid programs.</p>
<p>Safety should be a school you will 100% gain admissions into and would likely get a decent merit scholarship.</p>
<p>What are the core sections on the SAT? Reading and math?</p>
<p>I think if you use the classification system of safety, match, reach then if you have >90% of admission it’s clearly a safety. Granted I don’t think that classification system is terribly useful and you probably do want to apply to at least one school with like 99% chance of getting in but I think if you are also applying to some schools where you are merely very likely to get in as backups it’s fair to call those safeties.</p>
<p>I was an admit to c/o 2018. Other reach schools were Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, and Olin, safeties were Drexel, UConn, and RPI.</p>