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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you on this board if you're in CA?  Weird.[/quote]

I will respond to this though I am not the OP. I used to live in DC. When I moved, I kept using the forum. I am sure many people outside of DC post a ton of helpful info on here that you wouldn't want removed. Given your comment, I think I have been posting on here a lot longer than you have.[/quote]

Sorry, but it's weird for someone in CA to be asking about safeties on a DC-based forum.  It's too local of an issue.[/quote]

NP here.  Many of us don't consider the college admission process to be local.  I live in Maryland but most of my kid's safeties were on the West Coast.

To OP-- my kid was (out of sheer luck, because it's quite random) admitted to an Ivy ED.  But the safeties (true safeties) she had on her list were out of state Publics-- some in CA.  Also UWashington and Colorado.

Having gone through this with her last year, I can say that there were some extremely talented kids (probably more qualified than her, honestly) who were rejected absolutely everywhere except UMD.  Like really tip top scores, tons of 5s on APs, captains of school teams.  Not only did they not get Ivys, but they didn't get, like Georgia Tech and UVA  and Michigan and places like that.  Both of the two I'm thinking of ended up (not very happily) at UMD despite about 15 applications at all levels of school.

So "Safety" really means Safety.  It doesn't mean UVA (whether in-state or out-of-state).  It means someplace you know you'll get in (preferably rolling admission so you have it locked in early-- some people like Pitt for this reason) and that you'd be happy to go to.  In my dd's case, she wasn't so excited academically about UW and UC but she thought it would be cool to live in those places...[/quote]

Nice humble brag.  [/quote]

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