<p>In other words, what are the SAFETY schools for those applicants with 2300+, 750+ SAT IIs, 4.0 with all honors/AP, and a bunch of presidencies/captainship?</p>
<p>How about MATCH?</p>
<p>Safety schools are generally schools ranked between 25 and 50 by US news..matches are more controversial. The schools that some people call matches others say aren't...but typically schools like Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Vanderbilt etc would be matches-slight reaches for those students</p>
<p>yeah...anything in the top 20, it's a bit risky to call them a safety. Safety schools are usually really big state schools, like UT or OSU or Purdue.</p>
<p>what would UVA, UNC chap hill, and williams be?</p>
<p>^^^ Matches.</p>
<p>Hmmm, I would think UVA and UNC would be a match if you were in-state, and umm I highly doubt Williams is a match for anyone.</p>
<p>what are some typical safeties? any "famous" ones?</p>
<p>At my school it was UT-Austin. Every bloody person in the top 10% applied there.</p>
<p>For me, Rutgers University is a safety.</p>
<p>USNews #25-75 or so.</p>
<p>Safeties/Matches: UCs, in-state of course (maybe out-of-state)</p>
<p>Emory, Wash U are matches/safe matches for these top students provided that they demonstrated some interest.</p>
<p>Wash U definitely is not a safety...Emory is closer, but I still wouldn't consider it a safety</p>
<p>NYU, UChicago, UCs, possibly Columbia</p>
<p>Columbia? As in NYC? Ha.</p>
<p>Another ha for Columbia and a slight snicker for U Chicago.</p>
<p>brandeis... has the stigma of being the school that
1) ivy league rejects attend
2) people who were accepted to, but could not afford, ivy league (and similarly ranked) schools, attend</p>
<p>uchicago and columbia are never safeties... especially columbia</p>
<p>In California, anyone with those stats would definitely consider UCSD a SAFETY, because admissions are, for the most part, solely based on stats.</p>
<p>No Top 20 school can be considered a Safety. Match, at best.</p>