UW Madison, in my mind, isn’t a safety for anyone, especially someone from OOS. I know they wanted to keep more instate kids (see below) because they were losing some of Wisconsin’s best to OOS publics and privates ( and I am sure they don’t want to become like Illinois). VT and FSU used to be considered safeties for some high stat kids, but that’s not true anymore. VT’s acceptance rate this year dropped from 70% to 56%. FSU’s apps were over 50K with middle 50th numbers of 28-32 ACT and gpa’s of 4-4.4.