What are your high stat kid’s safeties?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are Wake and Colgate really safeties? I have a kid at STA who is middle of the class. Those are his targets with Colgate being a high Target. Are they easier to get in than we think?

Nope, both will likely have a below 20 percent acceptance rate this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are Wake and Colgate really safeties? I have a kid at STA who is middle of the class. Those are his targets with Colgate being a high Target. Are they easier to get in than we think?

What are considered middle class stats at STA?

I have two boys in middle school and trying to decide between privates and our local public (Langley).

[Anonymous]

Naviance shows that all top schools including MIT , Princeton, Stanford are matches for my TJ kid with 1550 SAT and 4.2 wgpa. I don’t believe that. What will be reasonable matches and safeties?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Naviance shows that all top schools including MIT , Princeton, Stanford are matches for my TJ kid with 1550 SAT and 4.2 wgpa. I don’t believe that. What will be reasonable matches and safeties?

My 1580 SAT magnet kid with a 4.77 wgpa was deferred at MIT, as was a few other magnet kids with similar stats.

Naviance is crap.

Reasonable matches/safeties depends on where you live and your major.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Naviance shows that all top schools including MIT , Princeton, Stanford are matches for my TJ kid with 1550 SAT and 4.2 wgpa. I don’t believe that. What will be reasonable matches and safeties?

My 1580 SAT magnet kid with a 4.77 wgpa was deferred at MIT, as was a few other magnet kids with similar stats.

Naviance is crap.

Reasonable matches/safeties depends on where you live and your major.

Most kids get deferred by MIT including yours. I hope you knew that.

[Anonymous]

I haven't read the thread. We found that there aren't a lot of "matches" with our high-stats kid. It was safety or reach. Safeties were UVA and VT as well as some "fun" possibles where they would get merit/full ride like CU Boulder. Then reaches were the T20s. Child was top 5 in the class of over a thousand with high SATs, so UVA and VT were safeties and they were admitted & invited to honors or whatever it was called.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read the thread. We found that there aren't a lot of "matches" with our high-stats kid. It was safety or reach. Safeties were UVA and VT as well as some "fun" possibles where they would get merit/full ride like CU Boulder. Then reaches were the T20s. Child was top 5 in the class of over a thousand with high SATs, so UVA and VT were safeties and they were admitted & invited to honors or whatever it was called.

Did they get into any T20s?

What high school has over a thousand kids per grade??

Even the big publics have like 700-800 kids and that is huge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Safeties: Cornell, Penn, Dartmouth
Targets: Harvard, Yale, Princeton
Reaches: UVA (in state)

UVA is the only reach because it is the best school and the most elite.

[Anonymous]

So many trolls on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Safety: UMd

No interest in paying big $$ for a school that is not notably better than UMd (will be a Stem major). Therefore he took a swing at a few heavyweights and if it doesn't work out, UMd it is. 1530/4.3w, private.

I can't even imagine paying somewhere like BU (or many others) a truckload of money for an education that is not *notably and substantially* better or more prestigious than UMd and *is* notably less prestigious than HYP/Rice/Penn. And this is no knock on BU, its a very fine school probably better in some fields then UMd but is it 150-200K+ better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Safety: UMd

No interest in paying big $$ for a school that is not notably better than UMd (will be a Stem major). Therefore he took a swing at a few heavyweights and if it doesn't work out, UMd it is. 1530/4.3w, private.

I can't even imagine paying somewhere like BU (or many others) a truckload of money for an education that is not *notably and substantially* better or more prestigious than UMd and *is* notably less prestigious than HYP/Rice/Penn. And this is no knock on BU, its a very fine school probably better in some fields then UMd but is it 150-200K+ better?

Rice? Did you go to Rice?

[Anonymous]

Safeties are Pitt and Santa Clara.

Many matches, even matches/targets where DC is in the top 25%, but low acceptance rates keep DC from considering them safeties.

Applying to 17 schools total. 4 reaches and I am not in support of all the reaches because I consider them a waste of time but I am not driving this bus. I do support the 11 matches/targets because DC is a strong match but the current state of test optional makes the likelihood of acceptance much harder to predict and she would prefer to go to one of those schools. I expect to be doing some traveling come April to visit schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Safeties are Pitt and Santa Clara.

Many matches, even matches/targets where DC is in the top 25%, but low acceptance rates keep DC from considering them safeties.

Applying to 17 schools total. 4 reaches and I am not in support of all the reaches because I consider them a waste of time but I am not driving this bus. I do support the 11 matches/targets because DC is a strong match but the current state of test optional makes the likelihood of acceptance much harder to predict and she would prefer to go to one of those schools. I expect to be doing some traveling come April to visit schools.

Be aware that Santa Clara yield protects. Not a true safety, in my opinion, unless already admitted EA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Safeties are Pitt and Santa Clara.

Many matches, even matches/targets where DC is in the top 25%, but low acceptance rates keep DC from considering them safeties.

Applying to 17 schools total. 4 reaches and I am not in support of all the reaches because I consider them a waste of time but I am not driving this bus. I do support the 11 matches/targets because DC is a strong match but the current state of test optional makes the likelihood of acceptance much harder to predict and she would prefer to go to one of those schools. I expect to be doing some traveling come April to visit schools.

If they have submitted a good test score, its not that hard to predict. 11 matches is an awful lot but I guess, at this point, what's done is done.


Good Luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Safety: UMd

No interest in paying big $$ for a school that is not notably better than UMd (will be a Stem major). Therefore he took a swing at a few heavyweights and if it doesn't work out, UMd it is. 1530/4.3w, private.

I can't even imagine paying somewhere like BU (or many others) a truckload of money for an education that is not *notably and substantially* better or more prestigious than UMd and *is* notably less prestigious than HYP/Rice/Penn. And this is no knock on BU, its a very fine school probably better in some fields then UMd but is it 150-200K+ better?

Rice? Did you go to Rice?

I agree. It is hard not to pick UMD for stem fields or business if your kid doesn’t get into a reach.