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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone from recent years have a kid who had high stats but ended up with no options aside from their true safety school?
I.e. they applied to top30 schools (with their college counselor's strong support and/or the support of previous years' stats from their school) but the cards just didn't fall their way and they ended up in their true safety school?

How are they doing now? 
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My kid is a senior at their safety school.

Was rejected from one reach, WL at another (attitude became if they don't want me, I don't want then), in at the state flagship - a target (which they never wanted to attend but we made them apply), rejected from another out of state target and deferred and then rejected from another.  In at 3 safetys, and decided they really liked one of them.  Has done well, made terrific life-long friends, and is applying to grad schools for next year (humanities major under grad, think History or English).

4.81 wgpa, 12 APs (all 5s), 35 on ACT, national awards and more.  And to reiterate, happy as a clam at their safety school.[/quote]

Great!

And if you actually put time together to select your safety schools, they can be amazing!  My own kid was

ED1 Deferred then rejected T10, 
WL at 2 T25
Freshman year overseas at a T50 (with 5% admission rates)

Direct admit engineering at state flagship (T60)
Accepted EA T40 (Ulimtately chose this school)
Accepted EA T50 (excellent merit)

Accepted at 3 safeties, top one being a true hidden gem. 
The other two were ones kid wasn't as excited about, but data indicated the true gem was a very strong candidate for acceptance for my kid.  But the 2nd safety was a guarantee and my kid would have been happy there.  But since we chose our targets well (Two schools that definately want you to want them type of schools), we knew chances were higher than many targets (kid was at 75-85%+ for those schools for stats)

Top safety remind in their final 3 (included an April senior year visit with the other two now Top choice) until the end, despite the fact the other two are definately better choices.  But if you select the right safeties (ours was a true hidden gem), they are excellent and you can actually envision yourself happily attending---that's what it should be.

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