Safeties for a strong student
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Anonymous
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If your kid is 4.0+, 1500+ student, what are their safeties?
I told my kids they need to have true safeties. One kid said Boston University and other kid said USC. I told them they should have a few true safeties. I was thinking Penn State. |
Anonymous
| A safety is a place where (1) your stats are >75%ile, (2) the admission rate is >60%, and (3) your kid would be happy to go there. This is the hardest part of building your list. Focus on the happy element. Have your kid do the work of finding them. My kid spent about 4-5 hours last year finding 2! She’s at a top 10 school now, but she would have been happy at her safeties. Those were 2 LACs in California that offered great programs in her field of interest. |
Anonymous
| Those are average stats for USC which isn’t a safety for anyone with its current acceptance rate. |
Anonymous
| Your kid may be too focused on stats as the key to entrance -- they aren't. He needs to really understand that 8:18 is correct. |
Anonymous
| DC has similar stats to what OP describes. Look at schools in 50-100 range on USNWR (I hate the ratings, but many of these meet the criteria in the first reply to OP). Locally, NC State and Penn State seem to be popular options - and both have excellent honors programs. Good luck. |
Anonymous
OP, you are giving good advice to your kid. What is the unweighted GPA? The kid who said USC was just pulling your leg. That school isn't a safety for anybody, ever. Boston University was interesting last year. My 1500+, 4.0 UW GPA kid was waitlisted. He declined to stay on the waitlist because he had gotten into some preferred schools. BU took a lot of kids ED (I know at least two kids that got in ED with lower GPAs and lower SATs). Same with Tufts (he did get off Tufts WL). Last year Penn State would have been a safety for my kid. My kid applied to UVM as a safety (and got in) as well as their state flagship--we're in MD. As someone else said, make sure your kid has a school or two on their list that they would want to go to AND as PP stated their stats put them in the 60%+ admit range. If your kid really likes a school encourage them to apply ED. |
Anonymous
Those are not safeties, even with those stats. Penn State should be, but the others are not. |
Anonymous
I think that depends on which USC. South Carolina is probably a safety at those stats. |
Anonymous
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My kid's safety, according to college vine or wise (can't remember) for CS is U of Chicago - Urbana, GA Tech, UMD.
Hard target is CMU and U of Michigan. Reach: Cal, UCLA, MIT 800 on SAT Taking MVC right now 5 on AP Calc test Several 5s on other AP tests. |
Anonymous
| lol.. that should be "800 on Math SAT". |
Anonymous
| My kid is doing JMU honors program as one. Definitely DC will get in to JMU but the honors program makes it a better fit. |
Anonymous
Is that an error under safety? Do you mean Univ of Illinois @ Urbana? |
Anonymous
How is Georgia Tech CS a safety for a non-resident of Georgia ? No such school as "U of Chicago-Urbana". |
Anonymous
yes, sorry, I keep getting the two mixed up -- U of I and U of C. |
Anonymous
that's what it said. DC has very strong stats. And yea, I mixed up U of I and U of C. |