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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Finding true safeties for high stats kids is where to start and yes they are there for every major. 
Engineering kid looked at Michigan Tech. Business kid would have been fine at Fordham or Pitt (true safeties for the profile) had T30 school not worked out.
Hard to find safeties kids like, truly like- but all those tours to the selective schools can happen after admission. Best thing we learned- find those safeties. Visit those, not the reaches. We saw some cool
parts of the country.

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The same assertion again -- that safeties exist for super high-stats kids.  Sure, there are great faculty at lots of places and wonderful programs at many. Smart and motivated students.

But for really intellectual kids, no school that takes 50%+ of applicants will feature a plurality of peers with a similar level of academic interest and enthusiasm. That's not awful -- hardly comparable to the end of liberal democracy, for example -- but in all, not a place that the brainy kid will truly love. Such kids can and should find their niche at the safety, but pretending that it's a great fit is disingenuous.
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