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<p>Then it is not a safety.</p>
<p>However, state universities are typically the best candidates to look for safeties, since they are more likely to have numbers oriented admissions. If you do not like your own state’s state universities, some out of state state universities may be worth seeing if you like them if cost is not a concern (or you like the places with assured big merit scholarships for your stats):</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1314309-how-find-assured-admissions-safety.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1314309-how-find-assured-admissions-safety.html</a></p>
<p>Note that more colleges are using “level of interest” as a criterion in admissions (see common data set, section C7). Such colleges should not be considered safeties, since the use of “level of interest” is usually because they do not want to be used as safeties.</p>
<p>You could also try applying to several schools that you like early under EA (not ED unless you have a clear first choice) or rolling admissions; any acceptance turns the school into a safety, assuming affordability. But if you get no early acceptances, you must have an assured admissions safety to apply to.</p>