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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A safety was a known safety once the "admit" decision was received.  Several had rolling notification (public u's, not too selective). Once DD and DS had a couple of these acceptances - Oct & Nov, they moved on to applications to match, and reach schools. If you can find a good public school choice, in or out of state with rolling notification, it works very well as a safety - as long as that's the type of school being considered.[/quote]

There are lots of decent schools, many of them public, that offer early admissions without too much in the way of required essays beyond the Common App, and which will give you an answer by October or November. Be sure to apply early admissions not early decision, because ED locks you in for that school. I highly recommend doing this, because it gave DC a lot of comfort ("some schools like me!") before the ED results from a tougher college arrived in December. [/quote]

+1.  I highly recommend going either EA or ED (binding) depending on how definite your child is about a particular school.  Also, fewer schools have binding EDs than EAs.  Those that can, do.  All I can add about that is that Washington & Lee has two ED dates; Virginia Tech has ED, as well.  I'm sure other parents can add to the ED list.  But our DC only wanted a VA university that was EA and that is the only school we applied to EA - we were done by Dec. 15th!  Saved us from a nightmare of applications and essay writing in December and January.  For the sanity of your family go EA or ED if your child is set.

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