<p>r600 m780 w610
WGPA 4.47</p>
<p>Safeties
Cal Poly SLO: Accepted
UCSD: Rejected</p>
<p>But its ok because I have already gotten into some of my match/reaches</p>
<p>gpa 4.9W
sat 2310
rank 3/150</p>
<p>didnt really have a safety. umichigan i guess?</p>
<p>I am a paranoid person…I was sure I would get in, but the paranoia in me made me apply to 5 safeties, 5 fits, and 5 reaches…
& thats ironic, Tulane was the first to accept me out of any of them..lol..</p>
<p>GPA (uw): 4.0
SAT: N/A ACT: 33
Rank: 1/467</p>
<p>Safeties: Concordia, U of Minnesota</p>
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<p>The largest reason I can think of is to compare financial aid packages. Beyond that, it’s making sure that you get into at least one college. Safeties are called safeties, not automatic acceptances, for a reason: you don’t know for certain that you’ve been accepted until you have an acceptance letter in your hand.</p>
<p>GPA (uw): 3.97
SAT: 2200
ACT: 34</p>
<p>Safeties: All the UC’s (except Berkeley & LA), Oxy and USC</p>
<p>GPA (uw): 3.97
ACT: 31</p>
<p>Safeties - All the UCs except B + LA</p>
<p>GPA - 2.84
ACT - 22
SAT - 1730</p>
<p>Safeties: Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and Duke.</p>
<p>^lol. =] silly!</p>
<p>GPA 3.96 UW, 4.756 W
SAT: 2180
Rank: 1/657</p>
<p>Safety: UCLA</p>
<p>gpa 99.33
rank 5/256
sat 2170</p>
<p>safety: St. John’s University</p>
<p>and I kinda used Fordham as a second safety but not really cuz it’s bad too be overconfident about this kinda thing</p>
<p>safetys of emory ucla and berkeley? are you guys nuts? my safetys were the elc schools i got into… ucsb, uci, ucd</p>
<p>GPA: 5.35/6.00 W, 4.00 UW
Rank: 4/497
SAT: 2200</p>
<p>Safety: University of Texas Austin</p>
<p>~4.0 UC
mid-2100s SAT</p>
<p>Safety: Davis/Irvine/Tulane.</p>
<p>GPA: eh too complicated to calculate/explain
SAT: 2340</p>
<p>Tulane: They lost my SAT’s so I haven’t heard yet
UMiami: Accepted w/Dean’s Scholarship
UC-Santa Cruz: Rejected (a little strange but OK)
Rhodes: Haven’t heard</p>
<p>Even high stats don’t make Berkeley and UCLA safeties. Notice that in their common data sets, GPA, rigor of course load, and essays are “very important”; UCLA considers scores to be “very important,” though Berkeley just “important.” ECs, work experience, volunteer work, personal qualities, etc. are “important.” So there’s much more to their admissions than stats.</p>
<p>Not to mention schools whose acceptance rates approach 1 in 5 are not safe enough to be considered safeties. Those who do consider them such don’t quite understand what a safety is (–to be safe).</p>
<p>Much of the same can be said of Emory.</p>
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<p>I got in as a Regents finalist (meaning I was top 1,000 out of 50,000 applicants)…</p>
<p>^^ that doesn’t mean it was a safety for you…</p>
<p>Does that mean that those who get likely letters from Stanford/Harvard/etc. should have considered them safeties?</p>
<p>GPA : 2.9
SAT : 400 (I spelled my name correctly, doesn’t that count for anything?)
Rank : 600/500</p>
<p>Safeties : Harvard, Princeton, Yale</p>
<p>kyledavid: Yes, if you got a likely letter from Stanford/Harvard, applying to anything less than Dartmouth would have been a waste of time. In fact, if you get a likely letter from Harvard, you should have just applied to HYPSM and rest assured you’ll get into one of those. I mean, if you’re a Siemens finalist and Intel ISEF finalist, 2400 scorer then why do you need to worry about not getting into HYPSM? Show me one super qualified student who didn’t get into any of the top schools he or she applied to.</p>
<p>courtney quit copying me =/</p>