<p>I was just looking over my college choices and was wondering if other Ivy hopefuls had similar safety schools.</p>
<p>This will give you some idea. I would say U of Michigan but it does want you to show interest in its common data set.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/477982-safety-schools-ivy-applicants.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/477982-safety-schools-ivy-applicants.html</a></p>
<p>Michigan’s acceptance rate is going to be ~35% this year and probably 30% next year, so I wouldn’t consider it a safety anymore. The Ivy applicants at my school used Penn State, Pitt, and Northeastern (for some odd reason) as their safeties.</p>
<p>I think Michigan is still a viable safety school for ivy applicants who aren’t on the edge of being qualified enough. I would have considered it a safety had I applied. UF and Georgia tech were my actual safeties.</p>
<p>For me it’ll probably be the UC system as I live in CA. Berkley and UCLA rank close to the bottom ivies so my back up will probably be Santa Barbra (super-back-up Santa Cruz).</p>
<p>RPI is my safety school and carnegie mellon is close to a safety for me but not completely</p>
<p>SUNY Bing and Geneseo were mine!!</p>
<p>^^cortana: ^CMU as a safety? 
Which schools are your “reaches”?</p>
<p>Typically one’s state flagship could be a reasonable safety, barring some exceptions (e.g. UVA, UMich).</p>
<p>State schools (Rutgers in my case) and other universities within 25 miles that I was in the 75th percentile for SATs.</p>
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<p>Not anymore. Got deferred.</p>
<p>Cal Poly SLO is not a saftey anymore for anyone in California</p>
<p>@Cortana</p>
<p>CMU is definitely not a saftey. the School of Computer Science is IVY league level, and CIT is, IMO, lower ivy level status. Maybe for Arts and Science, but not the latter and former I just described</p>
<p>Well I didn’t bother applying to any other schools after getting in early, but I had: USC, UCLA, UMich, UW, and Whitman on my list as safeties.</p>
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<p>This is not true. Of course, Cal Poly is full of impacted majors, which makes it harder to get in, but its admissions are still very highly predictable and formulaic. Deciding match/reach/safety depends on your certainty in being admitted, and you have a very high certainty of being admitted if you have the numbers.</p>
<p>You say ‘in California’ - do you mean to contrast this with OOS applicants in the context of the recent budget cuts (Berkeley has become easier for OOS applicants than in-state ones because of the budget cuts)?</p>
<p>No, Cal Poly SLO really isnt a safety anymore for a STEM major (including animal science). For humanities, it still is though. I know many “overqualified” kids that didn’t get in to SLO, including kids now at Ivy Leagues. There’s a thread here on CC titled something to that effect. I haven’t read it though. </p>
<p>I think the OOS thing is what the previous poster was implying. I hear a lot about that at my school, especially when people get rejected lol, but I haven’t fact checked to see it that’s true. </p>
<p>I’m a junior, but I will be applying to Ivys. My safety schools are Northeastern, Drexel, and UCD. Others that aren’t really “safeties” but are more matches/low matches: Claremont McKenna, UCLA, and UCSD.</p>
<p>Cal Poly can most definitely be a safety even for those who are in engineering. I seriously doubt that there really are students at Ivies that didn’t get into Cal Poly - and if there are, it was probably because they didn’t finish their applications (or didn’t send something in), or because they’re OOS and Cal Poly rejected them on a technical factor, not due to extreme selectivity. Cal Poly engineering seems really hard to get into, and compared to the vast majority of colleges, it is very difficult. But it is nowhere near - not even in STEM fields - the selectivity of top private schools.</p>
<p>I don’t know where this absurd notion about Cal Poly’s selectivity is coming from - it’s either jumping the gun (by hyperbolizing the true difficulty of admission), or wishful thinking on the part of Cal Poly affiliates. I’m from an area where most take one of three routes: Cal Poly, community college, or no college at all. Most choose the latter. The students admitted to Cal Poly engineering from this podunk town would indicate that yes, Cal Poly is definitely a safety for many CA applicants, contrary to Stonesn’s post. Accepted student profiles on CC, parchment, *********, etc. support this.</p>
<p>This is mostly immaterial anyway, since Cal Poly is so “safe” for the top CA applicants that they mostly don’t bother applying. Students who are applying to Ivies nearly always use UCs as their backups: the Ivy applicant type is usually guaranteed to get into at least one UC (via ELC), and so most don’t bother applying to CSU’s.</p>
<p>Well in ALL honesty, my safety is Cornell. But as far as actual safety caliber schools go, more like TCU and UT.</p>
<p>Tufts . . . where else?</p>
<p>Lol at glido</p>
<p>Im just curious – from glancing at this thread - pretty much everyone’s safeties are fairly STEMMY. Is this a good indicator of a cc application trend and if yes, did you all put your future major on the applications?</p>
<p>For son… Georgetown, ND, USC. So far so good. Accepted to all of them.</p>
<p>To be honest I’m not really an ivy guy, more of a notre dame, bc, Gtown, duke fella. But my safeties are the u of Minnesota, wis Madison, pepperdine and st Olaf. I live in Sota.</p>