“True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?

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Drexel

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Anonymous wrote:This area it’s JMU for sure.

You could have bothered to check stats before posting. the 75th percentile at JMU has a 4.11 GPA, a 29 ACT and a 1330 SAT.

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Anonymous wrote:MN makes a lot of sense for the DMV social-welfare crowd and libs.

Lots of daycare centers, too.

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Arizona, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State.

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Anonymous wrote:Toured UMinn about 3 years ago. A solid choice. DC chose a different path but probably would have thrived there.

I agree that Minnesota isn't driving distance like Pitt, but a bigger thing is probably the lack of skiing. Also, east coasters like to know they're 'near' other things - so you're in Providence but you're pretty close to Boston or whatever. When you're in MN, you're ... in MN. It's a longer drive to Madison or Chicago or whatever than east coast people are used to. For those of us from the Midwest, we're used to longer drives. Plus we know that the twin cities are cool! But I guess I get why DMV kids aren't as jazzed about it.

The kids are bougie and in need of a reality check.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory/Oxford which is their two year junior college.

Oregon, Arizona State, Kansas.

Emory/Oxford is not a safety for most kids. Admission rate is still less than 20%.

Admissions to Oxford at Emory is 10%. Emory College is 8.5%. Yall are chronically delusional on this site.

Your numbers are off. According to its official website https://news.emory.edu/stories/2026/03/er_regular_decision_class_of_2030_26-03-2026/story.html, Emory's acceptance rate is 12.3%, obtained by dividing 5,317 applicants admitted to either Emory College or Oxford College or both, by 43,269 which represents the total number of applicants. No doubt Emory is not a safety for anyone, but it isn't as low as Emory mom wants it to be.

That the combined rate for both colleges not the individual rate for each college.

The combined rate would reflect the average of the two rates, adjusted to reflect the number at each school. It can’t be higher than both numbers. So, either this number is wrong or the ones quoted are wrong.

No wise one, its not an avg just addition and subtraction because its the same pool of applicants. You can decide whether or not to apply to one of the two colleges or both... 99% of the 43k apply to Emory college, however only 60% of the 43k apply to Oxford.
3600/42000= 8.6%- Emory

2700/ 26000= 10.4%- Oxford

Both
((3700+2700)- 1000)/43000= 12.5%

Im arguing about Emory to people who cant do simple logical deduction. The reason the combined rate does not matter to you is because theres almost a 50% chance your child did not apply to Oxford College only Emory college so their acceptance rate is only around 8%. Theres also a chance your child only applied to Oxford thus the acceptance ratenwould only be around 10%.

Emory itself says the acceptance rate for Emory University (the combined entity) is 12 percent.

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Anonymous wrote:MN makes a lot of sense for the DMV social-welfare crowd and libs.

Lots of daycare centers, too.

Also a great place for ICE to get pissed on.

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Anonymous wrote:“Colorado”

Their admit rate is high but not so much for OOS and definitely not a safety for more selective schools like business & engineering. DC several friends who were rejected.

It was definitely a safety at our HS.

It still is a safety at our private (oos).

For exploratory studies, sure. But name an OOS kid accepted by CU for Aero with less than ~perfect grades/rigor/scores. I'll wait.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory/Oxford which is their two year junior college.

Oregon, Arizona State, Kansas.

Emory/Oxford is not a safety for most kids. Admission rate is still less than 20%.

Admissions to Oxford at Emory is 10%. Emory College is 8.5%. Yall are chronically delusional on this site.

Your numbers are off. According to its official website https://news.emory.edu/stories/2026/03/er_regular_decision_class_of_2030_26-03-2026/story.html, Emory's acceptance rate is 12.3%, obtained by dividing 5,317 applicants admitted to either Emory College or Oxford College or both, by 43,269 which represents the total number of applicants. No doubt Emory is not a safety for anyone, but it isn't as low as Emory mom wants it to be.

That the combined rate for both colleges not the individual rate for each college.

The combined rate would reflect the average of the two rates, adjusted to reflect the number at each school. It can’t be higher than both numbers. So, either this number is wrong or the ones quoted are wrong.

No wise one, its not an avg just addition and subtraction because its the same pool of applicants. You can decide whether or not to apply to one of the two colleges or both... 99% of the 43k apply to Emory college, however only 60% of the 43k apply to Oxford.
3600/42000= 8.6%- Emory

2700/ 26000= 10.4%- Oxford

Both
((3700+2700)- 1000)/43000= 12.5%

Im arguing about Emory to people who cant do simple logical deduction. The reason the combined rate does not matter to you is because theres almost a 50% chance your child did not apply to Oxford College only Emory college so their acceptance rate is only around 8%. Theres also a chance your child only applied to Oxford thus the acceptance ratenwould only be around 10%.

Emory itself says the acceptance rate for Emory University (the combined entity) is 12 percent.

Emorys news paper does that. Emory's freshman profile reports them separately.
https://apply.web.emory.edu/discover/about/first-year.html

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Anonymous wrote:“Colorado”

Their admit rate is high but not so much for OOS and definitely not a safety for more selective schools like business & engineering. DC several friends who were rejected.

It was definitely a safety at our HS.

It still is a safety at our private (oos).

For exploratory studies, sure. But name an OOS kid accepted by CU for Aero with less than ~perfect grades/rigor/scores. I'll wait.

Not aero, but mine got accepted mech e there with a 3.9w and test optional. No merit though. Catholic high school.

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Colorado Boulder!!!

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Anonymous wrote:This area it’s JMU for sure.

You could have bothered to check stats before posting. the 75th percentile at JMU has a 4.11 GPA, a 29 ACT and a 1330 SAT.

And? I'm just basing it on all the kids I know who went or are going there.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory/Oxford which is their two year junior college.

Oregon, Arizona State, Kansas.

Emory/Oxford is not a safety for most kids. Admission rate is still less than 20%.

Admissions to Oxford at Emory is 10%. Emory College is 8.5%. Yall are chronically delusional on this site.

The irrational Emory hate in this board is really off putting. So many people on this board hate that others have the audacity to believe that Emory is a good school. Wild, wild stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:Emory/Oxford which is their two year junior college.

Oregon, Arizona State, Kansas.

Emory/Oxford is not a safety for most kids. Admission rate is still less than 20%.

Admissions to Oxford at Emory is 10%. Emory College is 8.5%. Yall are chronically delusional on this site.

The irrational Emory hate in this board is really off putting. So many people on this board hate that others have the audacity to believe that Emory is a good school. Wild, wild stuff.

Like the thread is about safeties... how in the world would any T25 be mentioned is beyond me. These people are unhinged

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Anonymous wrote:Emory/Oxford which is their two year junior college.

Oregon, Arizona State, Kansas.

Emory/Oxford is not a safety for most kids. Admission rate is still less than 20%.

Admissions to Oxford at Emory is 10%. Emory College is 8.5%. Yall are chronically delusional on this site.

The irrational Emory hate in this board is really off putting. So many people on this board hate that others have the audacity to believe that Emory is a good school. Wild, wild stuff.

Like the thread is about safeties... how in the world would any T25 be mentioned is beyond me. These people are unhinged

Exactly. Emory mom feels obliged to defend Emory at every turn, even when the thread has nothing to do with the school. She keeps harping on the 8.5% acceptance rate and the 43,000 applications, as if they are some unbeatable gold standard. She so so so wishes Emory is ranked higher. It's embarrassing.