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if you are applying to the ivies chances are you will use ucla and berkeley as safeties for californians
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I think that's just how you (and some others) think, but for the overwhelming majority of Ivy applicants, Berkeley/UCLA are not safeties. Think about it: Harvard alone receives 27,000 applicants. Does, say, Berkeley accept 27,000 applicants? Last year, it was only 10,000. That means 17,000 students would have been rejected.
Of course, not all are from California, but even Californians shouldn't consider them safeties. Backups? Sure. Many would really prefer to go to the Ivies+ instead. But they're not "safeties" for these students.