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Your kid needs to show interest, convince the safety why they want to attend.  Safeties do exist.  A school with a 50-60%+ acceptance rate does not just reject all high stats applicants.  But your "why School X" essay has to be meaningful, you need to show interest and contact admissions/dept chairs/etc and let them think you actually want to attend.  If you do that, you will get into at least 50% of your safeties. And you should have at least 2 safeties that have 75%+ acceptance rates...those do NOT yield protect, they are going to accept your high stats kid, 99% of the time. 
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My high stats kid was deferred from a state school that does not yield protect and has a a 70% acceptance rate. I don't think safeties exist anymore. [/quote]

So please list the state school, your kid's stats and major.  Because sure, the school may have a 70% acceptance rate overall, but if you kid wanted CS/Engineering and their acceptance rate is 20%, it is NOT a safety school, it's a reach/maybe a target for a few kids.

I highly doubt your kid was rejected from their in-state school with 70% acceptance rate if your kid's stats were 75%+ and your kid wanted to major in SS/humanities/a non-impacted or direct admit major. But if that is not true, then please provide more details. 
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I've mentioned it here before, but Auburn engineering deferred him. 1490/34, 3.9 unweighted, 4.4 weighted, excellent EC's. Was accepted EA to a much more prestigious school with a 15% acceptance rate and RD to Purdue engineering.[/quote]

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