<p>I spent so much time talking about Yale and other Ivies on this site (with everyone here) that I completely forgot about safety schools.</p>
<p>Where are you guys applying for your safety?</p>
<p>Yeah, I'd like to know, too.</p>
<p>I'm not sure how "low" I have to go for something to be considered a safety. Schools where I'd definitely be accepted.. I'm not sure I could see myself there at all.</p>
<p>My "safer" schools are: UMich Ann Arbor, Bard, and Skidmore. But I'm not sure if they'd be called "safeties"??</p>
<p>Michigan is certainly not a safety school, especially for out-of-staters.</p>
<p>My safeties are SUNY Binghamton, NYU, and Wellesley.</p>
<p>IU, Whitman, UCs (in-state)</p>
<p>haha, byerly, especially considering yale's admit rate last year was lower than harvards. check out gradeinflation.org</p>
<p>my safeties are umich, cornell and washu</p>
<p>Yeah, I do feel a bit cocky saying it, but I feel like UMich and Cornell are safeties for me, too. I definitely got the sense at TASP that if you got in there, you'd definitely get into UMich, and probably Cornell too, didn't you, blurblurblur?</p>
<p>yeah, our factotum told us that the only reason wash u agreed to host tasp was for the off-chance that some of us would decide to attend. in fact, if not enough taspers go, there's a good chance they'll give up after their contracts over. as for cornell, i'm a legacy as well, and in-state which helps.</p>
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<p>Harvard's admit rate was a record low 9.1%</p>
<p>What did your factota tell you about other schools. Is TASP a big push?<br>
(They told us about U Mich and Cornell also).</p>
<p>actually my factotum got into yale but ended up at swarthmore...she said that it is pretty well known, but i think that its not so much that being in tasp gets you in, its that the people who get into tasp already have something about them that would have gotten them into school regardless.</p>
<p>My safety schools are IU Bloomington and UNC Chapel Hill.
My safer-than-Yale schools are Swarthmore, Pomona, and George Washington (and maybe UChicago, if I ever forgive them for having an obnoxious application.)</p>
<p>oh richard and pianoman...are you guys applying to the house at cornell? i just got that email the recruiting lady sent out, and the perks are actually pretty incredible- free room and board, free this, free that...plus, the telluridean experience.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think I'll apply to both houses. Just more essays to write, aghhhh.</p>
<p>My main safety, other than my local school, is Scripps. Does anyone know if I can consider it reasonably "safe"?</p>
<p>it depends on your stats, but if you apply to a women's college like scripps (i assume that's the one your talking about, i think there's a womens and a coed one) it's a good idea because the acceptance rate is higher and you still get a really high quality education</p>
<p>Virginia Tech</p>
<p>Safer- UVA, William & Mary, Hopkins, Georgetown</p>
<p>Reaches- a bunch</p>
<p>The apps. for the houses are due at some comfortingly late date, like January, right? And you can really tell that Cornell's intent on sucking in as many TASPers as possible. Their app. requires a minimal amount of work compared to the UMich one. The UMich app. just makes my head ache when I contemplate starting it. Oh, and UMich requires an interview while Cornell doesn't. But I'd rather spend the next four years in Ann Arbor... <em>sigh</em>.</p>
<p>Speaking of other schools where the chances of admission are slightly more reasonable, what do you all think of UChicago? I wonder whether I'd like the whole mind-to-the-academic-grindstone sort of vibe that it gives off. And yes, they certainly do seem to pride themselves on having an exceedingly vexing application. But who knows, it could be fun. For example, that essay question about string :D .</p>