What were YOUR safeties?

[deutsch]

<p>mercedddddddd</p>

[phonyreal98]

<p>ACT: 33
GPA: 3.77 unweighted, 4.77 weighted
Class rank: 5/255</p>

<p>Safeties: NC State, East Carolina, Florida State</p>

[Courtney8]

<p>Dominus, just because we have generally the same intelligence and safeties doesn’t mean I’m copying you.</p>

<p>its too bad not everyone can be as smart us.</p>

[randombetch]

<p>Alright fine I admit I applied to UCSD and USC too :P</p>

[Puddly]

<p>GPA: 3.85 UW, 4.52 W
SAT: 2230
Rank: Doesn’t rank, top 5%</p>

<p>Safeties: UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, University of Washington – Seattle</p>

[kyledavid80]

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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.

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<p>You’re being sarcastic, right?</p>

[rollz4]

<p>3.6 W
2200 SAT</p>

<p>Safety 1: marist college
Safety 2: american u. (just got acceptance package today w/ 20K dean’s scholarship)</p>

[noinspiration]

<p>4.2 W
2070 SAT</p>

<p>Safeties: Mills-accepted w. 18k a year
UCD-accepted
Cal Poly SLO-accepted
UCSB- we’ll find out Monday, I guess</p>

<p>I almost feel bad calling them safeties because they’re all really nice schools. I’m seriously considering Mills and UCD.</p>

[randombetch]

<p>No I’m being realistic.</p>

<p>I don’t see why everyone’s so close minded that they can’t see that for some people, Yale is a safety.</p>

[kat41911]

<p>GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.35 W
Rank: 1/160
SAT: 2290</p>

<p>Safeties: St. Lawrence, Syracuse (accepted), and I guess Skidmore is a semi-safety. I hate calling schools safeties, though–I’m still paranoid about SLU and Skidmore since I haven’t heard yet.</p>

[theprez]

<p>4.0 UW, 2260</p>

<p>Safeties are Virginia Tech (accepted) and UVA…</p>

[arky]

<p>GPA: I have no idea
SAT: 1920
Rank: I have no idea</p>

<p>Safety: Cazenovia College (accepted, with a 16k merit scholarship)</p>

<p>

I’m still paranoid about SLU and Skidmore since I haven’t heard yet.

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<p>St. Lawrence isn’t mailing until this coming Friday, Skidmore isn’t mailing until the Friday after this one, so I wouldn’t be paranoid about it…</p>

[banana_whizz]

<p>GPA: 3.83/4.15
SAT: 2120
Rank: school does not rank</p>

<p>Safeties: UCR, Cal Poly Pomona, UCI</p>

[DSC]

<p>3.67 GPA
top 10%
34 ACT</p>

<p>Safeties: Michigan State and Alabama, hooray Honor’s Colleges and guarunteed frosh research opportunities.</p>

[razzle]

<p>4.0 GPA
ACT: 33
Rank: 3/182</p>

<p>Safeties: HARVARD</p>

<p>…jk jk…Loyola Chicago (yay for the honors program!)</p>

[SeniorSlacker]

<p>GPA: 3.9/3.67 UW
SAT: 2240
Rank: 64/740, unofficial</p>

<p>American U, Lewis & Clark C, SDSU, Seattle U</p>

[kyledavid80]

<p>

No I’m being realistic.</p>

<p>I don’t see why everyone’s so close minded that they can’t see that for some people, Yale is a safety.

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<p>I would say that I’m lenient when I tell someone their chances – usually I will say slight reach if I think it could go either way, when most others automatically say reach (which blatantly isn’t true).</p>

<p>I would also say that you have no idea what a safety is, as evidenced by your saying that Berkeley is your safety and that HYPSM can be safeties.</p>

[Vivi]

<p>Yale is a safety?</p>

<p>Yeah, for people who have inflated egos. Or really sweet connections.</p>

[Eravial08]

<p>GPA: 3.91 UW/4.34 W
SAT: 2300
Rank: Top 5%</p>

<p>Safety: Ohio State - Honors (accepted with maximus scholarship)
Low Matches (don’t freak out): Rice (likely letter), Northwestern, Johns Hopkins (non-BME)</p>

[dank08]

<p>This thread makes me feel like crap. I would kill to go to some of your “safeties.”</p>