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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s a weirdly aggressive post, op.  [/quote]

OP here: I didn't mean for it to be aggressive. Honestly trying to understand what happened/why people are surprised. This includes college counselors![/quote]

NP.  Nearly every time I would see someone roll out their student's "safeties" list on this site, I would think to myself, good luck if you think all those [non ivy, not SLAC, etc.] schools are your safeties, or even targets.    And now here we are.     [/quote]

Exactly! Safety for us meant 65%+ general admissions rate, and even then stuff can go sideways. So made it 3 safeties.

Some here aeem to have exaggerated views of what a true safety is.[/quote]

Yeah I remember kids at my DC’s school looking down on umd and saying its a safety school and everyone gets in.. then many kids didn’t get in.[/quote]

The idea of a safety school is not just the acceptance rate, but the expectation that they are more focused on stats and objective measures than subjective ones. So if a kid has 75% percentile test and GPA score, they are pretty confident that they will be accepted into a 50% acceptance rate school. There is of course a chance that they won't be, but it's not the expected result.

The wife and I think that so many people applied to "safety" schools this year, including higher stat kids that normally would not have applied, that these stat-focused schools have had to adjust their acceptance criteria upwards even when factoring in yield protection. It's going to be interesting to see what the yield turns out to be this year. I don't see schools building in a safety margin, even considering their waitlists, which will dwindle fast as the students become committed to their schools of choice. [/quote]

There’s another factor you’re leaving out, which is that several “safety” schools have had larger yields than expected the past few years.  Auburn and Pitt, both examples of the increased application phenomenon, both enrolled larger classes than intended last year. Auburn has announced that they want to reduce the size of the freshman class this year.  VaTech is another school that has been over-enrolled in the recent past, so they’re probably trying to be conservative re: yield. [/quote]

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