<p>sometimes they would pick schools like UNC chapel hill because, well, the midranges are low. but they don't research and dont realize that OOS is much harder than instate.</p>
<p>or sometimes they would do something like apply to cornell as a safety because "the girl who got in last year had much lower stats than me"</p>
<p>lol just ignore them
wait till they get rejected and laugh at their faces haha :D</p>
<p>Have you seen any places that show stat for public college out-of-state admissions rates and information?</p>
<p>Agree with legend.dracula. :D</p>
<p>My classmates seem to have absurdly high expectations too, but then again, I haven't looked at their whole applications.</p>
<p>Just wait until they're disappointed in April and frantically search for schools with rolling admissions.</p>
<p>well but don't make fun of truly smart kids :D
there is a certain number of students that go crazy for applying. they have so many reach/high match but do not even have a safety :|</p>
<p>LOL wow i'm not sure what i'd say to the student who applied to cornell as a safety solely based on someone else's record.</p>
<p>a laugh would be in there somewhere FOR SURE though :)</p>
<p>People at my school usually don't even apply to more than 1-2 schools, and I doubt most of them could even tell you what a "safety" is. :p</p>
<p>Last year we had a girl who thought UChicago and Emory were her safeties, then got into neither.</p>
<p>I also know a girl who thinks Cornell is her safety!</p>
<p>At first I thought I would consider University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as my safety, but then I was worried my ego was just way too big and stuck to my state flagship.</p>
<p>my favorite are the people who are applying to all ivies and the University of Washington (I'm from WA). some of them will not get into ivies, and will end up going to UW. i feel horrible about this, but it makes me kind of happy that they will finally get what they deserve. what goes around comes around....</p>
<p>Stick around on these boards until about April. There always seems to be someone who gets rejected by all the colleges the person applied to and every college applied to had a less than 25% admission rate. The person might have had an 800 on the math section of the SAT but, despite that, apparently believed that, though you have only a 10% chance of admission at any one ivy, you somehow increase your chances by eight times by applying to all eight ivies.</p>
<p>LOL the kids at my school do the same thing. They all have SAT scores below 2000, but think that they're going to Cornell. The most popular schools that the "top students" in my school apply to are Cornell, Bucknell, Lafayette, and University of Pennsylvania. Plus ivies. I'm pretty sure they think in the scope of their school only and think, "well I'm the best this school has to offer, so obviously I'm ivy league material." They don't consider the fact that their competition is qualified kids all over the country. It's ridiculous. One kid at my school with a 1990 SAT is applying to 6 ivies, bucknell, and lafayette. Bucknell and Layayette are his safeties. haha. I have a higher SAT score and more EC's and my safeties are University of Scranton and Wilkes University. REASONABLE. </p>
<p>But seriously, my school is a joke. No one has a grasp on reality. At least the kids on here who have no safeties have high stats. Kids at my school just have no idea.....
My other friend thinks GWU and American are her safeties and once again sub-par SAT scores. Ridiculous. April will be quite the reality check.</p>
<p>A friend of a friend (who lives in the town next to mine and is a grade below me) apparently thinks that Amherst College is going to be her safety. And no, she wasn't confusing it with UMass. This is especially aggravating for me, because my school (which is much better academically than hers) has never had anyone accepted to Amherst... which I'm trying to change :)</p>
<p>I know a girl who thinks Middlebury is her safety. I know a boy who's applying to all the Ivies + MIT, Stanford, CalTech, Amherst, Williams, Carleton. His "safety" is Bowdoin. Interesting that those are such different schools.</p>
<p>My 1st choice school is Yale, and safety schools are Harvard, Princeton and MIT.</p>
<p>... just wanna say such thing once in my lifetime <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>People at my school think Berkeley and UCLA are their safeties because they're in-state.</p>
<p>My safety school is Oxford University, btw.</p>
<p>yea. well my safety is the chinese civil service exam in the early dynasties (time traveler, naturally)</p>
<p>10 million plus exams administered</p>
<p>20 spots allowed</p>
<p>yeooo ana...kids in my skool do the same thing....just let it go worry about urself... besides theyll most likely get rejected n e way.</p>
<p>What if WE are the "crazy" ones?</p>
<p>^^ one question about that: are state flagships (specifically utexas, ou, okstate, tamu) decent choices for safeties for people in the top 10% because they guarantee admission to people with certain criteria including a top 10% rank?</p>