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[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.  
[b]With only three B+ grades he is likely top 20% in the class, maybe even top 10%.[/b] [/quote]

I can vouch for this.  My DS is a senior and I actually thought he wrote this (he denied).  Three B+ and nothing lower does indeed get you in the upper echelon of the class at his school.

To OP, we are having a hard time too and we have found already this year that state schools are not your friend for safeties.  YOU think they're a safety -- because your kid is in the 98th % for State School's SAT and you think a 3.8 UW is pretty damn good coming from Sidwell or St. Albans.  (it is).

Texas Arizona Georgia Colorado Washington Wisconsin Florida, however, would like to defer your EA application, because you're being compared to public school kids with 5.7 weighted GPAs.  Turns out, they are not safeties.

So go with the smaller private schools already listed on this thread, because [b]they will know what three B+ grades actually means from your school.[/b]  They have relationships[/quote]

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