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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]50% acceptance rate isn’t high enough to consider a school a safety. [/quote]

It's a combination of the above--but sure, if you feel more comfortable, make it 70%.  Main point is that anything under 50% is certainly NOT a safety, no matter what your stats.

If you plan your list accurately you will have decent acceptances.

My 2022 kid: 
3 Reaches (1 T10, 1T30, and Northeastern which is a reach for anyone with 90K applicants)
3 Targets (Flagship state school in T50, one ranked near 30, one ranked near 40---kid was at 75%+ for stats/gpa, rigor)
3 safeties (2 were a guarantee--over 70% acceptance rate the other only 45-50% but with a female in engineering at an engineering school looking to increase the F/M balance and at 85-90% for stats felt it was a safety)

My kid got into all safeties and targets.  Got ED deferred then rejected at T10, WL at T30 with an acceptance rate of 7%, and NUIn at Northeastern)
So it worked out as planned---key is to pick the right targets and safeties and not get "too in love" with your reaches.  
Sure, they didn't get into their reaches, but that's a crap shoot when acceptance rates at all of those were less than 7% that year.  In reality, the WL and NUIn is a "you are material for our school, but we don't have space because we got too many applications". My kid is now happy at a target school, which in reality was probably their 2nd choice (after the ED) when they step back and actually look clearly...they only wanted the other 2 reaches more because of location, not the academics. They ended up at an excellent fit school for them.

Note: my kid loved the one safety so much they seriously considered it up until about 1 week before making a decision, and even revisited it in April before deciding.

Put in the effort to have a good, balanced list of schools, show demonstrated interest everywhere and be excited about all choices (it's not a safety if you don't want to attend)

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Northeastern is not a reach if a kid applies ED, the acceptance rate is close to 40 percent.[/quote]

As stated above, my kid ED to a T10 school that was their top choice. So NEU was a Reach.   Ultimately, my kid decided NEU was not for them (too big, too crowded, didn't want to start off campus first year, etc---for many reasons it was not their top choice and they are attending a much better school so no loss to my kid). [/quote]

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