If your kid’s reach school is a top 10, what is their safety?

[Anonymous]

Santa Clara has its share of yield protection. Be forewarned.

[Anonymous]

I'll ask a related question: how can kids find genuine "safeties" or "likelies" if schools yield protect?

My DD has a few likelies that she'd be happy at, but her guidance counselor says some will yield protect. I think that's nuts!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll ask a related question: how can kids find genuine "safeties" or "likelies" if schools yield protect?

My DD has a few likelies that she'd be happy at, but her guidance counselor says some will yield protect. I think that's nuts!

Show a lot of interest. Visit, interview if it's an option, attend virtual info sessions. And, click on all the emails and spend time on the website. They do pay attention to their website metrics. My son had high stats for a school that yield protects and did that and he got in while several friends with better stats got waitlisted.

[Anonymous]

Reach school is a top 15, safeties are Kenyon and William and Mary.

[Anonymous]

That depends on their stat, I am surprised to find lot of kids with 1400 SAT applied to top 10

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reach school is a top 15, safeties are Kenyon and William and Mary.

Example of what, in my opinion, is not the way to choose a true safety even for a high-stats kid. These schools have acceptance rates that are far too low to be true safeties. I would look for schools with acceptance rates over 50% by a good bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are your kid's stats?

SAT: 1590
GPA: 3.99 (unweighted) 12 APs
Student Body President; a bunch of other leadership ECs
Solid volunteer hours: about 400
National Merit and two national art awards
Cross Country and Track and Field.

No hooks.

[Anonymous]

True safety with those stats: Occidental, UCSB or UCSD, Claremont Colleges except Harvey Mudd and Pomona.

Outside California: countless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reach school is a top 15, safeties are Kenyon and William and Mary.

Example of what, in my opinion, is not the way to choose a true safety even for a high-stats kid. These schools have acceptance rates that are far too low to be true safeties. I would look for schools with acceptance rates over 50% by a good bit.

Yes, my student got into a top 10 liberal arts college and had two safeties with acceptance rates above 60%. I think the key is to to try to reproduce some elements of their ideal schools (geography, size, fit with other students).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reach school: Northwestern
Safety: Kenyon College, St. Olaf, UMDCP

My child’s applying to all 3 of your safeties. We consider St. Olaf and UMD safe but I don’t think Kenyon can be viewed as a safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reach school is a top 15, safeties are Kenyon and William and Mary.

Example of what, in my opinion, is not the way to choose a true safety even for a high-stats kid. These schools have acceptance rates that are far too low to be true safeties. I would look for schools with acceptance rates over 50% by a good bit.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your kid's stats?

SAT: 1590
GPA: 3.99 (unweighted) 12 APs
Student Body President; a bunch of other leadership ECs
Solid volunteer hours: about 400
National Merit and two national art awards
Cross Country and Track and Field.

No hooks.

What is their top 10 reach school? asking because that might help people suggest safeties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:True safety with those stats: Occidental, UCSB or UCSD, Claremont Colleges except Harvey Mudd and Pomona.

Outside California: countless.

Acceptance rates at the Claremont Colleges - all of them - are too low for safeties. Rates for class of 2024 (before test optional): Scripps 35% CMC 13%, Pitzer 17%

[Anonymous]

Wisconsin for my high-stats full-pay kid.

Got into t10 early & accepted, but looked back wistfully on Madison. Don’t know what would have happened if DC had had offers from both simultaneously (and/or had waited til Spring to decide rather than wanted to be done with the whole process before Xmas.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you on this board if you're in CA? Weird.

I will respond to this though I am not the OP. I used to live in DC. When I moved, I kept using the forum. I am sure many people outside of DC post a ton of helpful info on here that you wouldn't want removed. Given your comment, I think I have been posting on here a lot longer than you have.

Sorry, but it's weird for someone in CA to be asking about safeties on a DC-based forum. It's too local of an issue.

No, it sure isn't.