List down your safeties

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maryland, Wisconsin, and even Boulder are not safeties for anyone. Unless perhaps if you are applying to a less popular, less competitive specialty school (ag, nursing). I know of kids with good stats who were rejected from all of these schools

Nursing is a tough admit just about everywhere. Generally a little less competitive than engineering and roughly equivalent to business.

[Anonymous]

Clark, Knox. Got into both.

Going to Smith!

[Anonymous]

True safeties:

U of SC
Indiana
KU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:STOP CALLING IT WISCO!

No one from Wisconsin calls it Wisco.

I’ve never felt the urge to conform to what people from Wisco do though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:STOP CALLING IT WISCO!

No one from Wisconsin calls it Wisco.

I’ve never felt the urge to conform to what people from Wisco do though.

The kids here all call it Wisco

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Anonymous wrote:Pitt, Wisconsin, Rutgers, Delaware, UMD

Wisco is not a safety for anyone from out of state.

Fetch

Well, it was for my kid, and she got in, don't know what to tell you. Naviance for our large NJ public was clear she would with her stats and she didn't sweat it.

Why even respond to that comment? Your insecurities show when you do such things.

lol. Hardly insecure. My kid’s safeties were another kid’s reaches. That’s how it goes. This whole conversation is beyond stupid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:STOP CALLING IT WISCO!

No one from Wisconsin calls it Wisco.

I’ve never felt the urge to conform to what people from Wisco do though.

The kids here all call it Wisco

It can’t be stopped. They ALL say Wisco. Tik tok rules the universe.

[Anonymous]

I’m glad to see someone mention Hobart. We visited, and I liked it a lot.

UVM
Pitt
Juniata
Another SLAC
Elon—no merit aid

We thought Syracuse was a safety but child rejected from one of their top programs, so you never know. Another person I know with a far lower GPA was accepted. Major and college within the university must make a big difference.

We didn’t consider UMD a safety because we know good students who didn’t get accepted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just FYI, I know two kids with 4.6+ weighted GPAs from MCPS who were rejected from UMD this cycle. Luckily they weren’t assuming it was a safety for them.

It’s very hard to get accepted from MCPS.

My 4.2 kid was accepted from a different county. Was near top of class.

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Anonymous wrote:Pitt, Wisconsin, Rutgers, Delaware, UMD

Wisco is not a safety for anyone from out of state.

Fetch

Well, it was for my kid, and she got in, don't know what to tell you. Naviance for our large NJ public was clear she would with her stats and she didn't sweat it.

Why even respond to that comment? Your insecurities show when you do such things.

lol. Hardly insecure. My kid’s safeties were another kid’s reaches. That’s how it goes. This whole conversation is beyond stupid.

Jesus lady. You’re not making yourself look good here. Talk about beyond stupid. You just can’t understand what “safety” means.

[Anonymous]

Wisco’s 49% acceptance rate will make it a safety for lots of kids. Mine and her friends were happy to be accepted early.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maryland, Wisconsin, and even Boulder are not safeties for anyone. Unless perhaps if you are applying to a less popular, less competitive specialty school (ag, nursing). I know of kids with good stats who were rejected from all of these schools

Nursing is a tough admit just about everywhere. Generally a little less competitive than engineering and roughly equivalent to business.

no. Nursing is not tough compared to others unless one is talking about less-selective colleges. Students who get into nursing are from a completely different "track" of high school science and math courses from the magnet publics and privates (less honors, no calculus needed)and historically have lower SAT ranges. The students in getting admitted to Arts&Sciences at T50s have a much harder path to acceptance than nursing admits. Engineering /cS are much harder than A&Sc and draw students fromthe same top honors/AP/IB course curricula as A&Sc, so there is a valid comparison to be made. Nursing admits come from very different high school tracks. Acceptance "rate" means nothing when the applicant pools are completely different.
At Elon or Auburn or Boulder nursing may be harder than arts&sciences but at t50s it is the opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wisco’s 49% acceptance rate will make it a safety for lots of kids. Mine and her friends were happy to be accepted early.

I would not call Wisco a safety.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just FYI, I know two kids with 4.6+ weighted GPAs from MCPS who were rejected from UMD this cycle. Luckily they weren’t assuming it was a safety for them.

It’s very hard to get accepted from MCPS.

My 4.2 kid was accepted from a different county. Was near top of class.

where did the two kids mentioned above attend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:STOP CALLING IT WISCO!

No one from Wisconsin calls it Wisco.

Exactly. It's WISKY.