<p>Thanks for reading. I'm finalizing my college list and I pretty much have all my schools that I really want to go to. I want to find some safeties now, preferably ones good in physics. My complete college list is:</p>
<p>UK:
University Of Cambridge
University Of St.Andrew's
Imperial College London</p>
<p>US:
MIT
UChicago
UMich
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Canada:
UToronto</p>
<p>I'm looking schools in cold climates, I can't stand the heat. Any help is appreciated!! :)</p>
<p>It’s hard to find safeties if you have no stats up :P</p>
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<li>What kagami wrote.</li>
<li>Why the UK schools?</li>
<li>URochester, Michigan Tech & UMinnesota</li>
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<p>maybe consider Purdue and Georgia Tech? Looks like all those schools you listed are decent engineering schools so I’m guessing you want to major in that</p>
<p>“safeties”</p>
<p>An Academic Safety is a place where you know you will be admitted based on your grades and/or test scores. You know this because the grades and/or test scores that guarantee admission are posted right on the website, OR because your high school has years of college admission records for students with your profile that indicate that you will indeed be admitted.</p>
<p>A Financial Safety is a place that you can pay for without any aid other than federally determined (FAFSA) aid, and/or aid that is guaranteed to you because of your grades and/or exam scores.</p>
<p>Some Academic Safeties are not Financial Safeties, and some Financial Safeties are not Academic Safeties. You need to sit down with your parents and talk about where the money for your education is going to come from, and just exactly how much there will be so that you know how deep and hard you will have to dig in order to find your Financial Safeties.</p>
<p>A Rock-Solid Safety is both Academically and Financially Safe. If it also offers your major(s) and is a place that you would be happy to attend if all else goes wrong in the application process, then you can consider it your True Safety. This is the single most important institution to find. It is the only one you should let yourself fall in love with. </p>
<p>Please don’t set yourself up to be the author of one of next April’s “I didn’t get in anywhere that I like and can afford” threads.</p>
<p>Wow…that was dumb of me lol.
GPA(uw/w): 3.81/4.32—>A 97 at my school is a 3.6 
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<p>Full IB schedule
English HL
Physics HL
Math HL
Hist HL
French SL ab initio
Chemistry SL</p>
<p>7 AP’s so far:
Bio, Calc BC, Physics C: E/EM, USH, Macroecon, World Hist: All 5’s except World History
A few more planned this year</p>
<p>Rank: 18 or 19/ about 800
SAT: 2360
ACT: 35
Black male
Classes at UTexas at night(Calc I,II & Physics I,II) I plan on taking more this year</p>
<p>ECs:
Mu Alpha Theta
Science Society
Volunteering at local elementary schools
Research internship in Orgo Chem sophomore year and summer after</p>
<p>I think that’s all.</p>
<p>Pretty much what happymomof said. A good safty would be like your state school (easy to pay for) or if money is not an issue then look towards a school with a really high ranking specific field…like urochester with engineering or NYU stern for finance…stuff like that. </p>
<p>You have really solid numbers. I wouldnt worry too much about safties. You are guarenteed to get into at least one of those schools you listed up top.</p>
<p>“I wouldnt worry too much about safties. You are guarenteed to get into at least one of those schools you listed up top.”</p>
<p>None of us are on the admissions committees at any of these places, so none of us can speak with that kind of authority. The best we can say is “Your stats are good. It is quite possible that you will be admitted to at least one of these places.” But then we have to ask the hard questions like “Can you pay for these places?” and “Have you come up with any good Safety schools yet?”</p>
<p>I know you said you don’t like the heat, but you should still put UT Austin and/or Texas A&M as safeties, since you’ve got a very high rank and will be automatically admitted to both. Also look at BU, Northeastern, BC, GWU, Georgetown, all good schools, not necessarily safeties but with your stats I’m sure you could get in. They’re also in cold weather 
You should definitely look at some of the Ivies, too.</p>
<p>Northwestern, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Virginia, Maryland, Colorado, Illinois, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Penn State, Rutgers, Washington.</p>
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<p>While the OP has great stats, a lot of these are not safeties. </p>
<p>Since you seem to be from Texas, why not apply to UT Dallas or Baylor just in case?</p>
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<p>This implies that all Texas public universities, including the University of Texas at Austin, are admissions safeties, if you otherwise qualify.</p>
<p>[Automatic</a> Admission | Be a Longhorn](<a href=“http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/after-you-apply/automatic-admission]Automatic”>http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/after-you-apply/automatic-admission)</p>
<p>Since UT Austin is an excellent school generally and in physics, that is a pretty good safety if it is affordable to you. (Yes, it is in the Texas heat, but it is hard to pass up.)</p>
<p>You did not mention any cost constraints. Could you pay full list price at any of these schools, or would you need substantial financial aid? Try putting “net price calculator” and/or “financial aid estimator” into each school’s web site search box.</p>
<p>Minnesota is also pretty good in physics, is in a cold area, and is relatively inexpensive for out of state students.</p>
<p>Not sure where you fall on the whole A&M/ut rivalry, but one of those schools would be great safties</p>