Need Recommendations For Safety Schools (D22)

JustVisiting76
Tue, 20 Jul 2021 05:30:58 +0000

I’d encourage her to narrow her focus: size, regional location, urban/rural/suburban/medium sized city, what interests she would like to purse in addition to academic focus in econ, job placement considerations (California vs elsewhere), etc.

I mean, as long as her recs are strong and she can write essays that show herself authentically with good tie ins to a school, 1900 of the 2000 or so colleges and universities in the country are safeties for her at a minimum.

Assuming we’re calling anything with an 85+% chance of admission a safety, she should pick 2 or 3. That could be anything from a CS school to half the flagship schools in the country to a strong private school like a URochester to high caliber but not tippy top LACs like DePauw, Kalamazoo, etc. Assuming the rest of the app is good, URochester is admitting 19 out of 20 students with these types of numbers and that is a very good school. Out of state acceptance rates for no-STEM majors with that GPA+rigor w/ 32+ ACT/SAT equivalent is probably 90% at Wisconsin and there aren’t 15 flagships in the country that have any sort of case for being more selective than Wisconsin. The important things for safeties:
-she likes the school
-you can and are willing pay for it
-it suits her academic/professional/grad school aspirations.

She needs to be very picky with her safety criteria.