<p>psh Harvard's my safety. ;)
haha no i"m not even applying. My safety is the University of Wisconsin i guess.</p>
<p>Georgetown is my safety</p>
<p>My safety school is/was Boston College - despite their 30ish percent acceptance rate for Early Action. But, since I was applying EA I had the chance to adjust and add another safety in the chance that I was deferred/rejected. But hey I was one of 5% of business school applicants accepted to the CSOM Honors program so I guess it worked out!</p>
<p>I really love BC and Boston in general, so assuming Harvard rejects me, I wouldn't mind going to BC in the least!</p>
<p>Milkmagn-- that's a pretty tough safety...</p>
<p>Mine is UCI-- already guaranteed!</p>
<p>northeastern university :)
got in with a very generous merit scholarship!!!!!!</p>
<p>The top LACs do have good yield rates, but nothing like those of HYPSM. Perhaps they aren't struggling to find applicants to enroll exactly in the fashion sisrune suggests. Ex. Pomona yield for 2007 - 39% (not stellar, but not any close to small) </p>
<p>Having said that, I do think its more a matter of wanting a more intimate college eduation that make people apply to LACs, and not because they are safeties in general.</p>
<p>Exceptional students will have most top LACs begging for enrollment of course, but I hardly think this leads to any meaningful gap in student quality between most top schools and the top LACs. When it comes to HYPSM however, I have to bow to the inevitable and acknowledge that the student body overall is better than even the best LACs. The reputation, resources, and peers are unmached. But for the rest, as I've reiterated before, the difference lies between a good school and a bad school. Period.</p>
<p>Fordham University.
Full scholarship + Honors Program + Close to Home make it a great choice for me.</p>
<p>UCI. Close to home, great weather, safe area.</p>
<p>Just got into UNC-Chapel Hill...my safety :)
"Mom and Dad, I'm going to college" <em>crying with joy</em> lol</p>
<p>RPI...its cool up there :-D</p>
<p>^ DT, though I don't remember which university did the study, there is a study floating around somewhere that details for what schools students have preference, when faced with a choice. Though I don't remember the exact numbers, I seem to recall that when students faced the decision between Yale and Swarthmore, roughly fifty percent chose Yale, and fifty percent chose Swarthmore. With that in mind, it seems that your assertion that the student bodies at HYPSM are much above those at WASP is largely incorrect. Though I'm sure that HYPSM attracts those true geniuses at much more than LACs do, I think the general populations are very much comparable. If it's only 40 points on the SAT that separates the student bodies (~690-800 at HYP; ~660-760 at WASP), it becomes even more clear that your contention is false. Furthermore, if we compare the endowment per student, you'll find that they're close, especially given that it's very likely that more money at these universities goes to graduate students and not undergraduates (HYP at ~1.8M/student, ~1M at WASP). Now, however, if we're talking about reputation, there's no doubt that Harvard is more well known than WASP.</p>
<p>The only Web link to the revealed preferences working paper that is currently live is the one on the National Bureau of Economic Research site. For a fee, you can download the paper, I'm pretty sure. I downloaded it for free earlier :) when Professor Caroline Hoxby kindly posted it on her faculty website at Harvard. Now that she is at Stanford, that link is no longer live. It's my understanding from one of the other working paper co-authors that the paper is now being prepared for peer-reviewed formal scholarly publication. I would like to see the same (or adapted, if the peer review warrants) methodology applied to a broader and more current data set. </p>
<p>The New York Times posts a graphic </p>
<p>The</a> New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices </p>
<p>based on the revealed preferences working paper data set and methodology.</p>
<p>Downloadable here:</p>
<p>A</a> Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities</p>
<p>My bro applied to HYPSM + Cooper Union last year. Guess the safety.</p>
<p>In some ironic twist of events, he got accepted into all the letters of HYPSM, but not Cooper :P .</p>
<p>Cooper Union is quite reachy (in the highest Barron's selectivity category) to be taken as a safety college.</p>
<p>harvard is my safety, hah jk.</p>
<p>I have two safeties: </p>
<p>UIUC- In-state, 94% overall acceptance for IB students</p>
<p>And University of Texas at Austin which I preferred over UIUC because of weather, large campus size and my parents are moving there.</p>
<p>Both are top 10 schools in the areas I want to study, so I'll be happy at either. Thats how I chose my safeties.</p>
<p>Mine is UChicago, since I got in early. I know it's not a SAFETY by any stretch of the imagination, but since I got in already I don't need to apply to real safety schools. :) It made late December A LOT less stressful.</p>
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<p>It's generally a good idea to apply in the nonrestrictive early action round for any desirable college that has such an admission round. That can reduce the total number of applications and provide good news for the new year.</p>
<p>Are the current Harvard applicants starting to hear good news from their safety colleges?</p>