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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Safety: UMd

No interest in paying big $$ for a school that is not notably better than UMd (will be a Stem major). Therefore he took a swing at a few heavyweights and if it doesn't work out, UMd it is. 1530/4.3w, private.

I can't even imagine paying somewhere like BU (or many others) a truckload of money for an education that is not *notably and substantially* better or more prestigious than UMd and *is* notably less prestigious than HYP/Rice/Penn.  And this is no knock on BU, its a very fine school probably better in some fields then UMd but is it 150-200K+ better?[/quote]

way to sneak Rice in there lol[/quote]

The reality is: If ordinary DCUM users from outside a region, who aren’t that into colleges, have heard of a college, and it’s not a college with open or nearly open admissions, it’s probably too unpredictable to be a true safety even for high-stats students.

Example: Creighton is a fairly obscure private school. But it’s ranked 115th on the USNWR list and has an acceptance rate of 71%. So, it is over the 70% safety cutoff, but, if I were the student, I’d want to either have two schools like that on my list, and hope at least one has generous merit aid, or have a school on the list with an acceptance rate over 90% and a low price or decent merit aid.

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