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Anonymous

01/10/2025 08:55 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

Reaches: Brown, Yale, Swarthmore, JHU, Tufts, Wash U, Rice

Targets: Smith, Lafayette, Lehigh

Likely: UVM, SUNY Binghamton

She's at Swat, accepted RD after being deferred ED.

Anonymous

01/10/2025 08:51 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

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Anonymous wrote:Reach: Bowdoin
Safety: UVM

I like this one.

I like this too!

Ours is Reach: MIT and Bowdoin
Target: Bryn Mawr and University of Toronto
Safety: UVM and URI

We are DC residents.

Can you explain how? It seems like you can’t choose between big rigorous hard colleges and easy liberal arts schools. They have nothing in common

What can I say-- my kid "contains multitudes". She has compelling reasons to go to any of them.

Anyway, I consider neither Bowdoin, nor Bryn Mawr "easy"-- she plans to major in math and evidently both schools have exceptional math programs that she is excited to be a part of.

Bryn Mawr absolutely. Careful with Bowdoin, especially if she is coming in with post-AP math. My math major loves the school itself but has been limited by course availability - lots of faculty leaves in an already tiny department.

Anonymous

01/10/2025 08:48 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

Anonymous wrote:Reach(rejected): Duke, Stanford, Northwestern, Columbia & Cornell

Reach(accepted): Notre Dame, Boston College Michigan(oos), USC

Reach(wl): Emory, Boston U

Target(accepted): Georgia, Florida, Santa Clara

Safety(accepted): Colorado, Oregon

Great list, top to bottom

Anonymous

01/10/2025 08:47 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

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Anonymous wrote:UVA the safety.
HYP reach
Remaining IVY’s the target.

Are you saying your child did not apply to any school lower than UVA? Ballsy

I don’t think that part is ballsy, mine has UNC (in-state) as safety. I know it isn’t based on acceptance numbers, but being top of class it was a lock. Calling the remaining ivies a target is insane.

I know a kid who was nominated at the Jeff scholar for his high school who didn’t get into UVA. He thought of it as his safety, and it sends that UVA figured that they were the safety, too.

How so? The Jefferson (mine was semi and that was my post) is going on simultaneously and they operate independently. How is it sending a message it’s a safety?

Anonymous

01/10/2025 08:44 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Reach: Bowdoin
Safety: UVM

I like this one.

I like this too!

Ours is Reach: MIT and Bowdoin
Target: Bryn Mawr and University of Toronto
Safety: UVM and URI

We are DC residents.

Can you explain how? It seems like you can’t choose between big rigorous hard colleges and easy liberal arts schools. They have nothing in common

What can I say-- my kid "contains multitudes". She has compelling reasons to go to any of them.

Anyway, I consider neither Bowdoin, nor Bryn Mawr "easy"-- she plans to major in math and evidently both schools have exceptional math programs that she is excited to be a part of.

Anonymous

01/10/2025 08:36 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

Reach(rejected): Duke, Stanford, Northwestern, Columbia & Cornell

Reach(accepted): Notre Dame, Boston College Michigan(oos), USC

Reach(wl): Emory, Boston U

Target(accepted): Georgia, Florida, Santa Clara

Safety(accepted): Colorado, Oregon

Anonymous

01/10/2025 07:33 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA the safety.
HYP reach
Remaining IVY’s the target.

Are you saying your child did not apply to any school lower than UVA? Ballsy

I don’t think that part is ballsy, mine has UNC (in-state) as safety. I know it isn’t based on acceptance numbers, but being top of class it was a lock. Calling the remaining ivies a target is insane.

I know a kid who was nominated at the Jeff scholar for his high school who didn’t get into UVA. He thought of it as his safety, and it sends that UVA figured that they were the safety, too.

Anonymous

01/10/2025 06:41 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

Anonymous wrote:last year
Reach: Cambridge, UK accepted
Reach: Harvard - accepted
Safeties: St. Andrews, UMD, etc..

What did you child choose?

Anonymous

01/10/2025 06:40 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

Reach: UNC, Chicago, UGA
Target: Wake, WM, Wash and Lee
Safety: Clemson (accepted)

Anonymous

01/10/2025 06:35 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

Male CS major (currently college freshman)

Target: UVA, W&M, VA Tech
Safety: Pitt (early acceptance made it easy to not add other safeties)

Anonymous

01/10/2025 06:09 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

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Anonymous wrote:Reach/Target: W&M (accepted ED—in state, 1490, weighted 4.2); Haverford, Davidson

Safety: Elon, Dickinson

Interesting. I thought W&M and Dickinson had similar acceptance rates around 35%.

WF: 1450 (50% submitting scores)
W&M: 1470 (60% submitting scores)
Tulane: 1450 (45% submitting scores)
BU: 1450 (40% submitting scores)
BC: 1470 (50% submitting scores)

Dickinson: 1360 (25% submitting scores)
Pepperdine: 1360 (21% submitting scores)

Seems like Dickinson is closer to Pepperdine in terms of stats and could be easier to get into.

Dickinson is basically “test blind.” They stopped requiring scores before the pandemic, and unlike most schools, list test scores as “considered” in the CDS. William and Mary lists them as “very important” in their CDS.

And both are resoundingly boring and basic

And what, pray tell, would you find exotic and exhilarating?

Anonymous

01/10/2025 00:43 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

Reach: Tulane
Target: Texas A&M
Safeties: SMU, TCU, Baylor, OU

Anonymous

01/10/2025 00:19 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

last year
Reach: Cambridge, UK accepted
Reach: Harvard - accepted
Safeties: St. Andrews, UMD, etc..

Anonymous

01/09/2025 23:17 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

Reach: Bowdoin, Yale, Hopkins
Target: CWRU(accepted), Vassar, Wesleyan
Safety: Binghamton and UVM (accepted at both)

Anonymous

01/09/2025 22:58 Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious

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Anonymous wrote:Reach/Target: W&M (accepted ED—in state, 1490, weighted 4.2); Haverford, Davidson

Safety: Elon, Dickinson

Interesting. I thought W&M and Dickinson had similar acceptance rates around 35%.

WF: 1450 (50% submitting scores)
W&M: 1470 (60% submitting scores)
Tulane: 1450 (45% submitting scores)
BU: 1450 (40% submitting scores)
BC: 1470 (50% submitting scores)

Dickinson: 1360 (25% submitting scores)
Pepperdine: 1360 (21% submitting scores)

Seems like Dickinson is closer to Pepperdine in terms of stats and could be easier to get into.

Dickinson is basically “test blind.” They stopped requiring scores before the pandemic, and unlike most schools, list test scores as “considered” in the CDS. William and Mary lists them as “very important” in their CDS.

And both are resoundingly boring and basic

I guess my family is basic and boring! Husband and I both graduated from W&M and our kid is at Dickinson (which I really like too). Where should we send kid#2 to keep the basic boring streak going?!