OP, your son needs to find schools that admit more than 50% of applicants, and ideally higher, for the school to be a safety. And you have got to let your son take charge of this. YOU are not going to college. Do not write any more essays for him. They can tell when parents do this. He has little time left to submit apps, but in May there will be a cleaing house list published by NACAC of colleges that still have spaces. Your son might need that list. I agree with others. The list has no safeties, though Wisconsin comes close. And just to make you aware, it is “deferred.”