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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You say in the first paragraph that safeties are not difficult to find but then you also say that a safety is somewhere they want to attend. As you acknowledge in the second paragraph, that is the issue for many high stats kids and why they have trouble finding safeties. [/quote]

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but the reason they have issues finding a safety is because of societal pressures---parents, family, friends, etc who make it seem if you don't attend a T20 you are a loser and going nowhere in life.  That needs to change.  Once you eliminate those pressures a kid with stats for T20 schools should be smart enough to step back and evaluate a school and find a great one that's not T20.  It can be done.  In actuality the difference between a T20 and T50 school are not that much--there will be very smart kids at both and opportunities abounding.  It's what you do once you get there that matters more.

My own kid found an amazing safety ---ranked in the 60s.  It was a top 3 final contender up until the end. Why?  Because it's a hidden gem that really is an amazing school.  Had it been a normal semester school rather than 4, 7 week quarter school, my own kid would likely be there now.  Basically my kid loved everything about it except the fast paced quarters and realize that as a procrastinator, this might not be the best overall environment.  But my kid was also in at two T40 schools and seriously considered this other school.  Why---because the differences are not that much overall---for them it was about the best fit.  Ultimately they choose the best fit for them.

So yes, there are plenty of T100 schools that can be viable contenders for "safeties", and yes these can be found even in areas your kid actually wants to be.  My own kid is at a school that is not the most exciting city, that was the only major turnoff for them.  But overall it was the best fit, so they picked it and are very happy there. 
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Are you willing to share the name of the amazing safety school ranked in the 60s ? TIA[/quote]

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