Which colleges are your SAFETIES/ MATCHES?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I know its supper easy to come up with ten reaches, but can you list the schools that you're applying to that are your safeties and matches.</p>

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<p>lets not get lazy!</p>

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<p>i donno u tell me .. look at my thread lol its in this forum</p>

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<p>Yeah, this is tough. I can't figure out the line between my matches and reaches... but I know that my safety is UT (U of Texas Austin).</p>

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<p>What about yours?</p>

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<p>Harvard's my safety.
hehe right.</p>

<p>umm my one SURE safety is UC Santa Barbara, and my matches should be UCLA, USC, Cal, and UCSD. but this is what my counselor told me, and I'd like to be more of a pessimist</p>

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<p>Here are mine:</p>

<p>Match: U of Central FL, U of South FL, UNC-W, San Diego St. (OOS)</p>

<p>Safeties: Long Beach St., Florida Gulf Coast</p>

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<p>Match: Bowdoin, also probably my first choice
Safety: Colby, UMD - College Park</p>

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<p>^ ironmetal250, Colby isn't a safety for anyone. Bowdoin is also usually a low reach for top students. Are you evaluating your chances realistically?</p>

<p>And mine:
Matches - Vassar (high), Oberlin, Macalester (low)
Safeties - URochester, Beloit, UDel</p>

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<p>I visited Colby and loved it; the people are so nice there.</p>

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<p>Safeties: University of Florida
Matches: University of Miami</p>

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<p>Safeties: Indiana, Minnesota
Matches: Illinois, Wisconsin</p>

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<p>Safety: (arguably) SUNY-Stony Brook
Matches: Northeastern, University of Denver, Seattle University, Rutgers: New Brunswick</p>

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<p>Safties: James Madison, Michigan State, Virginia Tech
Matches: Wisconsin, UMich(High match/low reach)</p>

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<p>I am definetly a top student, and also will have 600+ hours on a semi-independent research project at the NIH by the end of my senior year. My counselor thinks that Bowdoin is almost guaranteed to accept me, I'm the one who's a bit nervous. I guess that Colby would also be a low match though.</p>

<p>I'm also having a Bowdoin interview, so that could help a lot.</p>

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<p>I think that Colby will be more competitive as it's statistically the "easiest" no-loans college; and the admissions rate isn't that high to start with.</p>

<p>But if you have the stats & ECs for Ivies to be a non-crapshoot, then I suppose your evaluation is on the mark.</p>

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<p>Yeah, you're probably right. .... is it weird that I'd probably go to Bowdoin (if I got in) even if I got into schools like Yale? My mom thinks it's limiting myself but I think it's the opposite (sorry if this is a little on topic, this has been a question I've wanted an answer to for a while)</p>

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<p>Macalester is like a dead-on match for me, and I think Grinnell's a reachy-match. I dunno, though, because if they reject me I'll feel like a big old dummy.</p>

<p>Safeties? Kalamazoo and a couple I'm applying to just because it's free, I got a "priority/VIP/whatever" application, etc.</p>