What are your safeties / targets if you have Ivy level stats?
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Anonymous
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Let’s say you have the stats to qualify for an Ivy - 4.0 UW, 1550 or greater SAT, 10 plus APS w all 5s, several years post BC calc math. national recognition in more than one area, lots of leadership, NMSF, etc
What are targets / safeties (not in state for MD or UVA) Not a recruited athlete or URM Want both STEM and humanities Prefer midsize but open to larger Like city / city adjacent Prefer a campus, but would consider a more open campus Not super Greek Like Boston , DC, NY, Chicago but open to Philly , SF, NC Not sure what is a safety/ target nowadays ? Everywhere seems harder to get in and some places yield protect |
Anonymous
| several years post BC calc math? Is this really a thing for Ivy, feel that would be mit or caltech |
Anonymous
| CMU - other than CS |
Anonymous
Yes - took BC in 10th grade but doesn’t want a purely tech school like mit, Caltech , Cmu for college |
Anonymous
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my kids do EA at Georgetown, got that, and didn't need anything safer. Applied to 4 top 10 colleges during RD and is at one.
SCEA doesnt really help at Ivies so do EA at a few places the kids likes and then you can shoot for the moon during RD |
Anonymous
| I feel like EA at gtown wouldn’t be a sure thing ? |
Anonymous
Ha yes, my CS major DC had higher stats than that and was rejected, including Cal, Stanford, UCLA, and even GA Tech. |
Anonymous
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You need to plan ED and ED2 schools.
Those stats should easily get into Tufts as a high target ED and BC level as a safety RD but you might get yield protected with those scores at BC and a few schools ranked lower in the RD round. You may not need it but some of these could be safeties. Case Tulane Lafayette BU BC GW |
Anonymous
I think the point is that if you have the gtown acceptance in hand, it becomes a sure thing. Same thing with Pitt, or Chicago or other schools that announce early. They aren't safeties, but once your kid is admitted they become safeties. |
Anonymous
| As other posters are saying, rather than thinking of safeties think of timing--find a school like Pitt that has rolling admissions or others that have EA and get a sure admittance under your belt (or a recalibration of the landscape if you are rejected/deferred). With that admittance, you don't have to choose a 'true safety' which many think of as an acceptance rate of over 50% and stats over 75%ile and your job becomes easier. Your next decision is whether you want to have an ED strategy which is really important if you want to target a certain level of selectivity. At selective schools the most telling information is whether you have chosen to go ED or not. Those stats would be high enough to say Dream school 1 ED1, Dream school 2 ED2. If none of that pans out, you apply to all the schools that you like more than your early action/rolling admissions acceptance in hand. |
Anonymous
Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth |
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Wash U
Richmond Tufts Northeastern Villanova Lehigh Michigan |
Anonymous
Add Bucknell. |