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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kid is 4.0+, 1500+ student, what are their safeties?

I told my kids they need to have true safeties. One kid said Boston University and other kid said USC. I told them they should have a few true safeties. I was thinking Penn State.[/quote]

OP, you are giving good advice to your kid.

What is the unweighted GPA? The kid who said USC was just pulling your leg. That school isn't a safety for anybody, ever. Boston University was interesting last year. My 1500+, 4.0 UW GPA kid was waitlisted. He declined to stay on the waitlist because he had gotten into some preferred schools. BU took a lot of kids ED (I know at least two kids that got in ED with lower GPAs and lower SATs). Same with Tufts (he did get off Tufts WL). Last year Penn State would have been a safety for my kid. My kid applied to UVM as a safety (and got in) as well as their state flagship--we're in MD.

As someone else said, make sure your kid has a school or two on their list that they would want to go to AND as PP stated their stats put them in the 60%+ admit range. If your kid really likes a school encourage them to apply ED.[/quote]

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