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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Super important that folks are conservative when it comes to definition of reach/safety/target for your student.  Reaches are a dime a dozen.  Targets can be elusive.  Safeties can be hard to find.
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Safeties are not difficult to find.  Top 25% of scores/gpa, acceptance rate above 50% and a school your kid really wants to attend. Oh and show demonstrated interest to minimize yield protection chances.

The issue seems to be that many "high stats" kids don't want to attend anywhere but T20.  Trust that they will go far even at a T50 school or T100 school.[/quote]

Yes I understand that last point for sure.  I would say a safety (to be safe, just my definition) would be as you say stats in the top 25% but acceptance rate even higher, like 60%plus.  
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That's fair--but note I did say 50%+ for acceptance rate.  You do whatever you think is best. Either way, it's important to realize that anything with less than 20% acceptance rate is a Reach for anyone, short of being a president's kid, major celebrity, etc.  [/quote]

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