<p>“I do believe that the OP was fully justified in considering UVa a safety”</p>
<p>Really, why? I had a friend who got into Columbia but got rejected from UVA and many (including two of my cousins) who got into Cornell and not into UVA…unless you can call Cornell a safety, I would advise against using UVA a safety. People used to make the same argument about the University of Chicago a few years ago when it had a pretty high acceptance rate…safeties are the Ohio States and the Virginia Techs.</p>