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[quote=Anonymous]It's not a safety if your kid wouldn't happily attend, or if it's not affordable for your family, so you'll need to find small safeties with reasonable tuition or good merit or need based aid, if the latter applies.

Public liberal arts colleges can be a great choice for safeties, both instate (look at St. Mary's, Salisbury or Mary Washington depending on your state) or in states with lower tuition (Shepherd, Truman State, Minnesota - Morris, Evergreen, just to name a few).  Or look at private schools that are a half step down from a match, where he/she's more likely to get Merit aid.  LAC's are there for students at all levels, from places like Amherst that are reaches for everyone, to lovely little schools like Ohio Wesleyan or Saint Lawrence or Susquehanna that will offer to merit aid to a strong but not super start students, to places that do a great job of supporting every kind of learner, like Mount Ida, which just offered a very nice merit award to a friend of mine's daughter, a lovely girl and very hard worker with low scores due to learning disabilities.

Since admissions at LACs is more of a crap shoot, it probably helps to have a few schools with rolling or early admissions on the list.  That way you can get the "safety" question take care of before submitting the rest of the applications.  [/quote]

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