Nope |
What? So you think CWRU is a "safety" for someone? It simply is not. Nothing with a 30% acceptance rate is a safety. that's fairly well established. And that is where the issues come. Kids with "very high stats" think their safeties are schools with 20 or 30% acceptance rates just because their kids are at/+ 75% for stats. But there is still a 70-80% chance of rejection so it cannot be a safety. |
No it is not. If you are applying for a direct admit major, you should look at the admit rate for that major, not the overall admit rate for a school. Because they are not applying for an Art history or English major at a school with 80% acceptance rate. They are applying for CS which has a 15% acceptance rate (not 80%). |
ST Olaf acceptance rate is less than 50%. So technically not a safety, more like a "likely target" or whatever you want to call it (a target that you are more likely to get into than a High target) |
Well then your kid might not get into their safeties. Or all their safeties will be Iowa, Kansas, ASU---schools that guarantee admission if you have a 3.X+ gpa or Sat over 1XYZ But there are plenty of Likelies/safeties that do not do that your kid can get into, but you of course need to convince them you want to attend. My 3.99/1520/10+ AP kid did not really want to attend a school with a 85%+ acceptance rate (or a large school). So we searched for excellent choices in the 50-70% acceptance range and made sure to show interest/do interviews if offered. My kid got into all their Safeties (50-75% acceptance rate) and only applied to 1 with a higher acceptance rate (and had no intention of attending it, but our CC requires you apply to a Safety/likely that's within 6 hour drive so we did that). |
No it is not. That's the entire problem many people have. They think their 35/4.0UW kid can consider schools with 20-30% "safeties". They are not. They are targets at most for Everyone. Stats do not matter, if a school still rejects more kids than they accept it cannot be a safety/likely. |
It is very possible to do that. My kid (2023 fall, 1500/3.98UW/8AP): T10: ED1, deferred then rejected T20: Rejected T30: WL Ranked in 30s: EA accepted merit Ranked in 40s: EA accepted Excellent merit ~50: Accepted, spend semester abroad (acceptance rates in single digits, over 93K applications for 2500-4000 spots) ~50: Accepted Direct admit Engineering (state flagship, engineering acceptance rate ~40%) ~60s: Accepted, great merit (was top Safety) 3 schools 70+: accepted to all, all with merit So it went exactly how we expected. Rejected from T20 schools (high reaches), WL at "low reach", and accepted at all targets, safeties, and likelies. If you create a balanced list, you should get into at least 50% of your target and safeties, and all of your likelies. |
A friend who thought their kid was destined to top tier schools had Clemson as their safety school. Well let's just say they are not going to Clemson. It seems to be a very common for people to think this and get shut out and end up scrambling when they do get shut out of all the schools they apply to. To me a safety school would be community college then transfer to your dream school. |
People are also getting shut out of Univ. Of South Carolina and Tennessee. |
do colleges show admit rates by major? I haven't seen that in the CDS. |
Because these are the current popular schools (beyond T30s) as well as Auburn, Georgia and UMiami. |
It's not in the CDS. Some schools make the info available on their websites--Virginia Tech is super transparent, for example--but most don't. It's not centralized in any publicly available reliable source that I'm aware of. |
UVA was not a safety for anyone when I graduated high school in 1993. |
Sorry, should have said not a safety for anyone outside of rural VA. |
+1 |