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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Target/safety would be case western 
Likely safety Brandeis (although maybe it’s too small?)
True safety Belmont (it’s a pretty campus near Vandy)[/quote]

Brandeis is small and it's not really in a college town. I think Tufts, BU, and Northeastern would be better if he's interested in the urban or college city/town lifestyle.[/quote]

I’m what world are Tufts, BU and NE safeties for this applicant?[/quote]

From a rigorous DC private (Sidwell or similar) they are safeties.  It's a different world than public.  
With only three B+ grades he is likely top 20% in the class, maybe even top 10%. [/quote]

No, they are not. Not even close. BU mayyybe but not Northeastern and definitely not Tufts.[/quote]

Agree that Tufts is not a safety for anybody--especially without showing previous interest, huge yield protection there. However, Northeastern and BU are 100% safeties for a candidate like OPs son. I guy, from Sidwell or St. Albans (assuming it's one of those-if it's GDS, Burke, or Maret, it's true, those won't have quite the same rate of acceptance). But those grades put a kid at the top 15% of StA or Sidwell.[/quote]

OP here.  It's [b]not Sidwell or StA[/b]. It's one of the other 3 you identified.

He does have Tufts on his list.  His college counselor advises that Tufts is definitely not a safety for anyone.

Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions.  Reading carefully and taking notes!  [/quote]

Oh, well, that does change whether these are safeties. Tufts is a definite reach, and I would say Northeastern may be a target, definitely not a safety. BU may be closer (I think previous poster is confusin BU with BC). [/quote]

I'm the PP who provided info from BU and Northeastern. I didn't mistake BU for BC. (BC's admissions rate last year was similar, just under 19%, but obviously a much smaller total number of applicants, just under 40k.) All that information is easily obtainable via a simple Google search that will take you directly to the source - the universities themselves. I don't know why people comment here if they don't even have a grasp of the basic facts. Maybe you're thinking of your own college admissions experiences, which were presumably decades ago, or even of kids who graduated a few years ago. If so, that perspective is totally irrelevant. All admissions have become much more competitive over the past decade, and COVID and test optional admissions turbo charged that. On average, BU and BC are marginally more competitive than Northeastern. None of them are safeties. If you had a clue, you'd know that the really important data can be found on Naviance, which will likely show even tougher odds from the DC area given the relatively higher volume of applications from this region to Northeastern schools. And finally, no school that admits less than 20% of the applicant pool is a safety for ANYONE in 2021, even some presumably perfectly nice overachieving white kid from a fancy DC private school.[/quote]

I'm the PP you're responding to. I have a freshman at a "Top 20" university and a high school senior in a DC private going through the cycle right now. I have a serious clue. Quite familiar with Naviance. At our kids' school, BU is not remotely on par with BC--acceptance rate is twice as high for BU as for BC. OP says they are at competitive private, so I imagine it's similar.[/quote]

Your "serious clue" - which led you to insist over and over again here that Tufts, BU and Northeastern are 'safeties' - is either dated or badly informed. And if your kids really are at a bigger-name private, you don't have direct access to the Naviance data for your school. So go brag about your T20 freshman somewhere else.[/quote]

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