Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 18:50     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:New York state -

Reach: Penn, Georgetown, Michigan & UNC OOS
Target: Cornell (ILR), Chicago (ED), Williams, Emory, Northeastern, Wesleyan
Safety: SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Stonybrook, Indiana

Accepted Chicago, so never got to try for the reaches, which I have mixed feelings about (kid seems happy).


Isn't Univ. of Chicago harder to get into (and more of an elite school) than Georgetown, Michigan, or UNC?


Chicago is significantly easier with binding Early Decision (exactly how much easier is a subject of great debate on this forum).
Michigan & UNC are very hard admits OOS. Yield protection is also a subject of great debate, but every year Michigan denies tons of ridiculously high-stats kids from DC's high school - kids who inevitably wind up at Ivies. So we considered it a reach, though a little less reach-y than Penn.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 18:39     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:New York state -

Reach: Penn, Georgetown, Michigan & UNC OOS
Target: Cornell (ILR), Chicago (ED), Williams, Emory, Northeastern, Wesleyan
Safety: SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Stonybrook, Indiana

Accepted Chicago, so never got to try for the reaches, which I have mixed feelings about (kid seems happy).


Isn't Univ. of Chicago harder to get into (and more of an elite school) than Georgetown, Michigan, or UNC?
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 18:35     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Reaches: Vassar, Oberlin, Bryn Mawr, Dickinson
Safeties: Loyola Maryland, Ithaca
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 18:32     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.


UNC in-state (43% in-state acceptance rate) not as risky as UVA (25%).
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 18:29     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:

This is from an older kid a few years ago
Reach: none I guess
Target: UGA (accepted) with merit), Clemson (accepted with merit)
Safety: TCU, SMU, Alabama, Univ SCarolina (all accepted with lots of merit at each)


Irrelevant. Talking this admissions cycle.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 18:27     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Reach: Dartmouth
Match: UVA, GA,
Safety: Vermont

Attends: Dartmouth
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 18:27     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:Reach: UVA, UNC, Michigan (all denied or deferred and withdrawn)
Target: UGA (enrolled), UF (accepted)
Safety: Auburn, Clemson, UT-Austin (in state) (all accepted)


Unusual to get into UF and especially UT-Austin and chose UGA over those schools. Was merit money involved?
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 18:17     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious


This is from an older kid a few years ago
Reach: none I guess
Target: UGA (accepted) with merit), Clemson (accepted with merit)
Safety: TCU, SMU, Alabama, Univ SCarolina (all accepted with lots of merit at each)
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 18:15     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Reach: UVA, UNC, Michigan (all denied or deferred and withdrawn)
Target: UGA (enrolled), UF (accepted)
Safety: Auburn, Clemson, UT-Austin (in state) (all accepted)
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 17:16     Subject: Re:What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Reach: Georgetown
Target: UVA
Safety: William & Mary
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 17:14     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Reach: Vanderbilt
Target: McGill
Safety: UMD

Attends Vanderbilt
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 17:07     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
New York state -

Reach: Penn, Georgetown, Michigan & UNC OOS
Target: Cornell (ILR), Chicago (ED), Williams, Emory, Northeastern, Wesleyan
Safety: SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Stonybrook, Indiana

Accepted Chicago, so never got to try for the reaches, which I have mixed feelings about (kid seems happy).
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 16:50     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Reach: Bowdoin
Safety: UVM


I like this one.


why?
my kid has the exact same.
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 16:17     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Reach: USC
Target: W&M
Safety: UVA
Anonymous
Post 01/08/2025 16:09     Subject: What school(s) were the reach? What was the safety? Curious
Reach: Northwestern
Target: WashU, University of Michigan, and Haverford
Safeties: Miami University, Hobart and William Smith and Pitt

Accepted ED to WashU.