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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. One of DD’s two safeties fell through, and without an acceptance in hand from JMU yet, she decided to add two more schools. Would you consider schools with overall acceptance rates of 40-45% but CollegeVine predictions of 78-85% targets or safeties? One requires a scholarship audition and the other is generous with merit aid.

She’s holding on to one more far reach application in case she feels inspired over the Christmas Break. No audition.[/quote]

I'd want to know more about why the safety fell through, because that might make me more cautious and likely to call something a target rather than a safety.[/quote]

The safety fell through because she wasn’t accepted to the very selective arts program. I’m confident she’ll get into the university - probably with merit - but she won’t go if she can’t pursue her art in a serious way. She learned at the audition that there are no options for non majors and that wasn’t clear before. So in the end, it wasn’t a safety at all. JMU has accepted her artistically pending university admission.

All the others schools she’s applied to have artistic opportunities for non majors, or non audition majors/minors, so I’m not worried about that. Paying for them is another story, and we’re chasing merit, but that’s the case everywhere but UMD.[/quote]

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