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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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I like the way you laid this out. I'll try it.

1 Reach- T25- EA 
1 Target- T50 - We considered this a target but was told by counselor that this school is a reach for everyone. DC was right in the middle of 25th and 75th percentile of GPA and SAT scores.  Accepted ED. 
1 "Safety"- T75 - EA. Just calling this safety due to the >50% acceptance rate but DC wasn't convinced about going there.

Out of these 3, DC really only wanted to go to the ED school. Already talked to the school about a plan B laid since the school had other options for admissions.
Was going to apply RD at 2 other safety schools with >75% acceptance with later deadlines if these first 3 didn't pan out.  Couldn't find the real safeties DC was happy with.

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You didn't search hard enough to find true safeties.  My kid had one top safety (and got in) and another they would have been "ok with".  We focused on their targets, showing interest, doing interview, etc so they would get accepted.  But we had 2 safeties they would have been happy at---it took a bit to find them.  [/quote]

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