<p>@runeknighttx: There are plenty of people who get into all of the top schools they apply to, but none of them doing so with this expectation. A safety school is a school you can identify beforehand as being the school you will 90% likely get into. If the odds of that kid getting into each of those schools were say 1/2, then he still would not have been able to consider them safety schools. And if the odds of getting into each one of those schools were 1/2 for lets say 4000 students, then there would be a number of incidences where students get into all of them. Yet the others with the same odds and merits do not get in to all of them.</p>
<p>If Emma Watson can get rejected from an ivy w/ perfect scores and pro figure skaters like Sasha Cohen with 4.0 gpa’s can get rejected from the ivies, then anyone can with any credentials. Unless you have the perfect application and are a 1st gen URM, then there is no guarantee of getting into a SPECIFIC college. Although, plenty of students with good odds will apply to 5 top schools knowing they will likely get into 1-3 of them.</p>