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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again,  I see someone revived my thread!  We are planning to visit several of the schools mentioned here over spring break.  Thank you.  I'm still having a tough time knowing how to identify a safety (finances aside), and our counselor so far has not been helpful, IMHO.  To be specific, DC's first SAT was 2050.  4.0 unweighted GPA from a non big three private, several APs, decent ECs. Not to target Mary Washington, but their 75th percentile is 1840, more than 200 points lower than DC's score.  Is that what we need for a safety, or can we feel "safe" with schools that are a bit more selective, such as Elon, where the combined 75th percentile is 1990?  (These numbers may not be entirely accurate; I just got them off the web.)  I would appreciate any feedback on what constitutes a true safety.  Thanks![/quote]

Your counselor will be able to give you a much better sense on the experience that students from her specific school have had. We just went through the process and my DCs safeties were ones where he was at/above the 75th percentile of scores. However these were pretty selective schools (28-34% admit rates) so he needed to be at the high end to be sure. In the case of Elon it looks like it would be a solid safety for your DD since the admit rate is pretty high and she's above the 75th percentile (I'm surprised it's so low actually).

Interestingly you don't want to be too far above the range because then schools are likely to know it's a safety and either deny or waitlist since they are trying to protect their admit rate/yield. We saw that happen a lot this year, and saw evidence of that on Naviance as well. That seems to be more of an issue for kids in the 2250+ range though.

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