Anonymous
Post 05/19/2026 16:58     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
Loyola MD
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2026 16:26     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:JMU is popular and it seems most students are happy there. No one is disputing this.

That being said, it is also definitely a “safety” school.


And UVA is a “safety school” to others.


Who is UVA a safety school for?


+1. look at the 75th percentile of SCHEV. UVA is a safety to no one.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2026 11:51     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:JMU is popular and it seems most students are happy there. No one is disputing this.

That being said, it is also definitely a “safety” school.


And UVA is a “safety school” to others.
Who is UVA a safety school for?
Just kids who already have been admitted (and people who don't understand the definition).
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2026 11:27     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
Anonymous wrote:What schools will fall into this category?



A lot of second tier flagship schools and third tier slacs.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2026 11:01     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Many of the regional Catholic schools. St. Joes, Marquette, Scranton, SLU.



+ 1


Excellent schools!
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2026 11:00     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:JMU is popular and it seems most students are happy there. No one is disputing this.

That being said, it is also definitely a “safety” school.


And UVA is a “safety school” to others.


Who is UVA a safety school for?


Kids who got into all of these: Stanford, CalTech, MIT, CMU.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2026 11:00     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:JMU is popular and it seems most students are happy there. No one is disputing this.

That being said, it is also definitely a “safety” school.


And UVA is a “safety school” to others.


Who is UVA a safety school for?

My kids.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2026 10:58     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:JMU is popular and it seems most students are happy there. No one is disputing this.

That being said, it is also definitely a “safety” school.


And UVA is a “safety school” to others.


Who is UVA a safety school for?
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2026 10:55     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
Anonymous wrote:JMU is popular and it seems most students are happy there. No one is disputing this.

That being said, it is also definitely a “safety” school.


And UVA is a “safety school” to others.
Anonymous
Post 05/19/2026 10:32     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Emory/Oxford which is their two year junior college.

Oregon, Arizona State, Kansas.


Emory/Oxford is not a safety for most kids. Admission rate is still less than 20%.

Admissions to Oxford at Emory is 10%. Emory College is 8.5%. Yall are chronically delusional on this site.


The irrational Emory hate in this board is really off putting. So many people on this board hate that others have the audacity to believe that Emory is a good school. Wild, wild stuff.

Like the thread is about safeties... how in the world would any T25 be mentioned is beyond me. These people are unhinged


Exactly. Emory mom feels obliged to defend Emory at every turn, even when the thread has nothing to do with the school. She keeps harping on the 8.5% acceptance rate and the 43,000 applications, as if they are some unbeatable gold standard. She so so so wishes Emory is ranked higher. It's embarrassing.

Why wouldn't Emory mom defend Emory is this case from obvious trolls. The thread title is schools that accept nearly every applicant how is a school with a 12% acceptance rate mentioned?
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2026 19:12     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
U Minnesota, U Arizona, Arizona State, U Oregon

If looking for SLAC and are full pay: conn college, denison, dickinson, miami ohio, elon, high point
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2026 15:21     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
Anonymous wrote:Many of the regional Catholic schools. St. Joes, Marquette, Scranton, SLU.



+ 1
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2026 14:58     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
Anonymous wrote:Dear Lord, you just asked this question!

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1325464.page

Oxymoron.


NP. That thread is different. It is not asking for safeties. It is asking for presitgious schools with high acceptance rates. 40 percent might be a high acceptance rate for a prestigious school but that would not make it a safety.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2026 14:55     Subject: “True Safeties” that accept nearly every applicant but have retained great reputations?
Hobart if you can pay