<p>Michigan (Already accepted EA)</p>
<p>u rochester, hamilton, and CMC</p>
<p>Re: Cal Poly and other CSUs</p>
<p>Some early reports of rejections and waitlistings indicate that Cal Poly and other CSU selectivity has gotten significantly higher from last year to this year. This means that some applicants who assumed that a given CSU (including Cal Poly) was a safety got caught off guard by the significantly increased selectivity, particularly if they chose a very impacted major (e.g. there is one major at San Jose State where 4.0 GPA with 1390 SAT CR+M was not enough to get admitted).</p>
<p>UC ELC may get a student into UC Merced, but a lot of students would rather go to Cal Poly than UC Merced.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I don’t see why someone whose primary target schools are Ivy League schools would find Cal Poly to be a good fit (regardless of how “safe” it is for admissions), due to different emphases in terms of subjects and majors.</p>
<p>I know scs at cmu is extremely competitive and i actually did not say cmu is my safety school but i would say i have a favorable chance of getting in . I applied to MCS and CIT (not for electrical engineering)</p>
<p>^ for most Ivy applicants (the ones who aren’t rejected outright, at least), I think we can agree that they’d have gotten into a UC other than Merced through the ELC program.</p>
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<p>I am very skeptical that one of SJSU’s programs is populated by students with 4.0’s and 2100’s, unless by “not enough” you meant they consider additional factors such as ECs. Which major is this?</p>
<p>I don’t personally know to what extent CSUs are seeing changes in selectivity this year, but the rule of thumb I follow is this: selectivity does not drastically change in one year. Ever. (Acceptance rates can change a lot in one year, but selectivity is something that takes years to evolve.)</p>
<p>Like an earlier poster said, SUNY Binghamton and Geneseo were my safeties. I also added BU and Northeastern after being deferred by Princeton.</p>
<p>I would use your school naviance to help identify safeties. Using the combination of GPA/SAT scores for my daughter, I think UCI, UCD, UCSB, UofMichigan, NYU, UCLA, USC, Santa Clara as safeties. No rejects from these schools. All green dots.</p>
<p>In my area, SMU is regarded as a safety for top level applicants.</p>
<p>I think University of Minnesota is a good safety. And reasonably priced.</p>
<p>A few lesser known LACs (admissions at about 40%)</p>
<p>UMass Amherst is my legitimate safety school, though my father considers BC my safety as well.</p>
<p>BC is no ones safeties.</p>
<p>BC is definitely a safety for some applicants.</p>
<p>My safeties were definitely my two state flagships, and as a male, I was planning on applying to some liberal arts school such as Vassar, which tend to be “safer” for most guys that apply because of the higher number of girls.</p>
<p>UT Austin. :)</p>
<p>Michigan- instate and already accepted</p>
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<p>Occupational Therapy. Needed a 4600 on the CSU eligibility index (= CSU<em>GPA * 800 + SAT</em>CR + SAT_M) for admission to SJSU.</p>
<p>[SJSU</a> Admission](<a href=“http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-1328.html]SJSU”>http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-1328.html)</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, SJSU no longer shows the fall 2011 thresholds, but I seem to remember that no major then required over a 4000 CSU eligibility index (the most selective was something like 3750 if I remember correctly). For fall 2012, there are eight majors at SJSU that require a 4000 or high CSU eligibility index, and every major requires a CSU eligibility index higher than the CSU minimum of 2900 (which many majors listed for fall 2011).</p>
<p>My confident safeties are Colorado School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Willamette. (Admitted already, no surprise)
My sorta safeties are UC Davis, University of Rochester.
My confident matches are Reed, Wesleyan, Vassar, Bowdoin(?).
My reaches are University of Chicago, Swarthmore, Pomona (better chance though cause sister attends), Amherst, Yale, and Brown.</p>
<p>Would you all agree with this? (3.9/4.23 GPA, 35 ACT, Odyssey of the Mind Worlds Finalist 3 years, 1st Chair Alto and Clarinet, dual club president and founder)</p>
<p>Ummm, why did you apply to both Mines and Bowdoin? Seems like if you fit academically at Mines, you do not at Bowdoin, and vice-versa.</p>
<p>Haha I’m gonna sound like a cocky prick but I’ll go for it anyway.</p>
<p>Michigan (EA, deposit paid), Stanford (Likely Letter).</p>
<p>My match/reach (if that’s what you want to call it) was Columbia. I was rejected.</p>
<p>In case you were wondering, I have a 2400SAT, a 3.74 HS GPA, and a 4.00 GPA in all classes I’ve taken at Michigan (as a high school student), which is a total of 32 credits. I have one article published in Science (as a co-author), and I am co-authoring a textbook and an exercise book, both of which will soon be used by Michigan’s and Harvard’s School of Public Health. In addition to 1300+ volunteer/community service hours.</p>
<p>No, I am not trolling.</p>