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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you wonder over to the BC thread, a bunch of people there are saying BC is a safety. Maybe take a look.[/quote]

BC is often seen as a safety for students shooting for Notre Dame, Duke and Vanderbilt.

But safeties vary so much depending on someone’s major and interests. A STEM kid is going to have a very different list of reaches and safeties than a liberal arts kid. [/quote]

I don't think you understand fully what a safety is.

BC is more like a target, and ND, duke and Vanderbilt are reaches. Places like Fairfield, PC, ad Fordham are safeties, if you will. Some might argue Villanova, but that is no guarantee by any means. BC had an acceptance rate of 13% this year. That is not a safety.
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BC 100% yield protects in RD from some privates (and maybe publics too--I don't have experience). From our private they will get 25/100 applicants who apply.  They have room for 5 from this private (clearly they're not going to enroll 25 kids from one school). So they defer or deny the Ivy level kids who they know won't say yes and take the 3.7 kids who they know will accept.

This happens each year at our school.  It's not a safety for high stats kids. [/quote]

They accepted my 3.95 UW GPA (4.3 weighted) and 35 ACT kid regular decision. Private Catholic high school.
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It’s my impression that Catholic high schools are far less reliant on ED than independent high schools. So it’s possible that BC projects yield differently depending on the type of high school (or even the specific high school).[/quote]

LOL no. I am the PP and there was a large number of students who did ED into BC and many other colleges.[/quote]

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