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<p>Lots of students and families find few or no options here, particularly for safeties:</p>
<p>a. Most these schools are highly selective, so they are safeties for no one. This is also why their graduation rates are high – if you can select a class to have only top-end students going in, your graduation rates will be high.
b. “Meet full need” is not a very useful claim, since the schools define “need” differently, and have different expected student contributions as well. So the net prices of two schools which claim to “meet full need” can differ by nearly $40,000 in some cases.</p>