<p>if you live in texas then you will get into any public school... so UT would definitely be a saftey</p>
<p>i do live in texas :) but if i go there i want to be in the dean's scholars program, which only accepts 30 students each year including undergrad, incoming freshmen, and transfers</p>
<p>this discussion is damn funny in s0me kind 0f way. ^^^
yeah. i kn0w pe0ple wh0 are ........ %^&&**</p>
<p>It's riddicul0us</p>
<p>wait. h0ld 0n. Am i th0se kinds of pe0ple.
Coz my safeties are: Binghampton State new york University
Geneseo.
Andi'm out of state. holy crap.
now i need to find other schools for safeties??</p>
<p>yEs yOu dO</p>
<p>I'm wondering the socioeconomic of these, um, misinformed people. A safety should not only be a place that you're sure of getting into, but also a place you can be sure of affording.</p>
<p>EXACTLY blinkangel....I've known people who apply only to top schools, and although they know they'll get in to some of them, they don't even stop to think about their financial situation. Sure you may be a good match for Cornell, but when you get in and can't finance it without taking out half a life's salary worth of loans, then what are you left with for options when you didn't apply to any financially-certain schools?
My safeties are University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Centre College. Both places where I'm sure I'll be accepted and also places where I know as much as one can that I'll be getting hefty scholarships (especially considering that half of the ones at UTK are guaranteed for simply getting decent ACT scores). It's always a good idea to apply to at least one school where you know you'll have a free ride or something pretty close to it. That's a major part of what a safety school is.</p>
<p>wait. wat about college of new jersey.
Guys, iam not actually misinformed or anything. coz my counselors said i could get into those schools. i know SUNY are state universities but they r not really hard to get in. </p>
<p>Anyhow maybe iam applaying to VCu or sumthing</p>
<p>Everyone in my school's top 10% is applying to Cornell as a "Low reach", and they all have 4.0 GPAs- but their SAT scores barely skin the 1800 mark.</p>
<p>I say let them apply where they want. They'll be sorted out in the first round. It makes me feel better when you think about schools with 10% acceptance rates, because maybe a good portion of those rejected never even had a chance. This means that the chance for a competitive student is higher than what's listed.</p>