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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clemson was really tough this year.  [/quote]

It accepted 43% of students the previous year. Not a safety.[/quote]
 
A friend who thought their kid was destined to top tier schools had Clemson as their safety school. Well let's just say they are not going to Clemson.  It seems to be a very common for people to think this and get shut out and end up scrambling when they do get shut out of all the schools they apply to.

To me a safety school would be community college then transfer to your dream school.  [/quote]

This.

When I graduated high school in '89, a good friend applied to pretty much all top tier schools - UVA, Amherst, Williams, UNC, a bunch other top SLACs, 2 or three Ivies. Solid grades, strong SAT's and EC's, AP classes. If I remember correctly, he only got into one - Trinity - which he ended up attending, and ultimately got his MBA from UNC.

I think he saw the non-Ivy schools as safeties. Though he ended up fine, that was a risky (and tactically questionable) move.[/quote]

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