What are your high stat kid’s safeties?

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Anonymous wrote:My high stat kids safeties were UMD and Pitt class of 2020 (interestingly he was accepted at his targets and not his reach) and PITT and UMD were his favorites-he is a partial Banneker Key at UMD living his best life.

My high stat class of 2022’s safeties were UMD and Lafayette.

good to hear. Trying to convince my high stats DC who wants to major in CS that they will be fine at UMD.

DC is at a magnet: 1580 SAT, all 5s on APs except the foreign language one (bombed that one), unw GPA 4.0.

UMD is a safety to DC. I told DC UMD isn't really a safety for their stats, but that's what they think. And I think because it's a safety, and also the location is in our "backyard", DC doesn't want to go there. But I told them they'd be dumb to pass it up, especially if they get Banneker Key.

But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe with those stats UMD is a safety for CS? IDK.

PP- my son who is at UMD had a 1580, all 5s on AP. 3.9 un, 4.6 weighted. He is did university honors and is the Smith school of business, he enter school with 34 credits and will graduate with a masters degree in 4 years. CS is top ten at UMD, hope your kid considers it.

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Elon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My high stat kids safeties were UMD and Pitt class of 2020 (interestingly he was accepted at his targets and not his reach) and PITT and UMD were his favorites-he is a partial Banneker Key at UMD living his best life.

My high stat class of 2022’s safeties were UMD and Lafayette.

good to hear. Trying to convince my high stats DC who wants to major in CS that they will be fine at UMD.

DC is at a magnet: 1580 SAT, all 5s on APs except the foreign language one (bombed that one), unw GPA 4.0.

UMD is a safety to DC. I told DC UMD isn't really a safety for their stats, but that's what they think. And I think because it's a safety, and also the location is in our "backyard", DC doesn't want to go there. But I told them they'd be dumb to pass it up, especially if they get Banneker Key.

But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe with those stats UMD is a safety for CS? IDK.

DP - UMD is a safety for your kid no matter the major. While your kid's stats are excellent, I'm not sure about BK. All kids considered for BK have almost perfect stats. What is his wt GPA and how many APs has he taken? Our kids won BK twice - one partial, the other full. I can't tell you how nice it has been.

Weighted GPA is 4.77. What are his chances for BK? Even partial?

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GMU, which also happens to be my Alma mater. I’m an FSO so it didn’t hurt me.

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For the EA/ED round? In-state for CS. UMD. It was both target and safety for us. 4.7, 1600. And everything else that goes with such stats. Full pay. Asian-American male. Applied to East Coast colleges. Two privates. All the rest were publics. Applied to 6 colleges in all. Got into 4. All were targets and safeties. Avoided Republican states, rural areas, huge greek life, colleges with low internship opportunities, or low diversity. ED did not work out. Thank you, God! That was really a dumb move on our part.

Kept UMBC for RA. To others, I would recommend both UMD and UMBC for EA round. My kid ran out of time.

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Public: JMU, Virginia Tech, George Mason, Christopher Newport

Private: Richmond, Dickinson, Wake Forest, Colgate, Bucknell, Lehigh

What are your target/reach schools for private?

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Anonymous wrote:
Public: JMU, Virginia Tech, George Mason, Christopher Newport

Private: Richmond, Dickinson, Wake Forest, Colgate, Bucknell, Lehigh

What are your target/reach schools for private?

Is wake’s yield low enough to be a safety?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Public: JMU, Virginia Tech, George Mason, Christopher Newport

Private: Richmond, Dickinson, Wake Forest, Colgate, Bucknell, Lehigh

What are your target/reach schools for private?

Is wake’s yield low enough to be a safety?

Their ACCEPTANCE rate is too low to be a safety.

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts, Emory, Salisbury U, UMBC

Schools with single digit admissions rates: Tufts and I think Emory, aren’t safeties for
Anyone. They’re lotteries. You could be very strong and fit right in and just not make it.

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Safety for no one: William and Mary, Va tech or uva.

Seriously, anyone in the past 5 years will tell you, these are not guaranteed even for high stats, in-state kids.

Unless you’re talking about maybe the 1990s or before.

There’s a difference between “pretty confident my kid will get in” and safety.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My high stat kids safeties were UMD and Pitt class of 2020 (interestingly he was accepted at his targets and not his reach) and PITT and UMD were his favorites-he is a partial Banneker Key at UMD living his best life.

My high stat class of 2022’s safeties were UMD and Lafayette.

good to hear. Trying to convince my high stats DC who wants to major in CS that they will be fine at UMD.

DC is at a magnet: 1580 SAT, all 5s on APs except the foreign language one (bombed that one), unw GPA 4.0.

UMD is a safety to DC. I told DC UMD isn't really a safety for their stats, but that's what they think. And I think because it's a safety, and also the location is in our "backyard", DC doesn't want to go there. But I told them they'd be dumb to pass it up, especially if they get Banneker Key.

But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe with those stats UMD is a safety for CS? IDK.

DP - UMD is a safety for your kid no matter the major. While your kid's stats are excellent, I'm not sure about BK. All kids considered for BK have almost perfect stats. What is his wt GPA and how many APs has he taken? Our kids won BK twice - one partial, the other full. I can't tell you how nice it has been.

Weighted GPA is 4.77. What are his chances for BK? Even partial?

PP you are responding to. Short answer is -- who knows? Your kid sounds like have good enough stats for consideration but I do believe BK selection committee looks for something more than good stats. Selection is not linear. Good luck.

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Anonymous wrote:Safety for no one: William and Mary, Va tech or uva.

Seriously, anyone in the past 5 years will tell you, these are not guaranteed even for high stats, in-state kids.

Unless you’re talking about maybe the 1990s or before.

There’s a difference between “pretty confident my kid will get in” and safety.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:My kids didn't really apply to any safety.
Instead a bunch of matches.

We figured what's the chance of getting rejected by all the match schools?
Pretty small if they system is not too bad.

Worked out well.

This is what we did too. No safety, just strong match/likely. Visited Case, really liked it. We heard back earlier this week and in with good enough merit aid for us. So the rest of the applications are reaches and a couple of matches.

[Anonymous]

Emory (Oxford) and Auburn

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfield, Bucknell, Drew, and Lehigh

This is a good list.

Bucknell yield is very low and they are ok with it.

And given how low the Asian population is, they are thrilled when Asian kids apply and don’t discriminate

I would target the PA privates - bucjnell, Lehigh, Gettysburg, Dickinson, F&M, Lafayette

Unlike nescac’s they don’t collude and aren’t nearly as worried about yield protection

Thanks! Good to know.