<p>what are some popular safety schools that are still good schools that are applied to often by students who apply to the ivies and other top 1 and 2 tier colleges</p>
<p>u chicago, u mich, uva</p>
<p>dontleavemethisw, you don’t consider U. Chicago a top tier school? It’s ranked in the top 10 in the USNWR.</p>
<p>I would consider U chicago a safety :-/ i did in fact 
It’s a good school, but it’s hardly the most selective. So yes, chicago is a good safety if you’re the kind of person who thinks he can get into an ivy.</p>
<p>i always thought Uchicago was a little more lenient on lesser sat scores or lesser gpas but still was one of the best colleges in the country and shouldn’t really be considered a safety…?</p>
<p>my stats 3.85 UW gpa top 7% in a competitive school (not higher becasue i got 2 b’s in regular art) sat 1380+ (not sure of 2nd score yet) probably 1400+ 31 actfor those stats what are we looking at for safety schools…? i would think UMICH would be closer towards just a match than a safety…</p>
<p>I would say University of Maryland, some of the mid UC’s</p>
<p>Some good schools to look at would be Michigan, Virginia, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, WashU, UCLA… There’s a ton of great upper mid-range schools, you’ve just got to look for em.</p>
<p>My guidance counselor had my safeties at NYU and Carnegie Mellon … he might have been crazy though, he had MIT as a shoe-in which is impossible.</p>
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<p>Michigan/Virginia/UCLA - not unless you’re in-state, and even then you’ll need 2200+ SATs, good GPA, ECs.</p>
<p>Berkeley - uh…no, not for anyone. </p>
<p>Vandy - mayyybe, but you’d better be damn good.</p>
<p>WashU - haha. They will waitlist your ass.</p>
<p>I don’t think some of these people know what they’re talking about. I would say most state schools are good safties. I have SUNY Binghamton as one of my safties.</p>
<p>UIUC for Illinois students.</p>
<p>all the schools listed arnt exactly safties</p>
<p>Wisconsin, GW, SUNY Binghampton, Michigan (they do reject some very qualified applicants but if you apply early enough and have a good unweighted GPA, your in) are good safeties for someone aiming for the lower Ivies/top 20 schools</p>
<p>I will say before anything else, that it is nonsensical and unfruitful to generate this sort of list of “selective institutions that are acceptable safeties”. It’s this sort of reasoning that has students believing that Tufts can be a safety.</p>
<p>So…why take part in this? Frankly I don’t know why except for enjoyment. It would be interesting to see what the classic "“I’m a sure bet for Harvard” student considers a safety now. We have matured from the days of treating Tufts, WUSTL, and Carnegie Mellon as safeties…we’ve come to see how that’s faired. I think school that have replaced the aforementioned are:</p>
<p>Case Western
Northeastern
Fordham
Boston University
Georgia Tech
Syracuse
Penn State
American University</p>
<p>And I have come across a few Bostonians who still follow this list for acceptable safeties for Harvard. Why do people follow such a list, let’s see:</p>
<p>*Boston College - in most places, BC would be the finest institutions within miles, but let’s clear that image and remind that it lies in MetroBoston, shadowed by the prestige of Harvard and MIT, and congested by another 30-someodd private institution that dim any chance of BC to be recognized as the level of institution it truly is. Even in Newton, as the pastors announces where the graduating members of the church are heading, there are no accolades for getting into BC, it is acceptable and respectable, something that I cannot say for BU and Northeastern, but still a symbol that you did not get any higher.</p>
<p>*George Washington University - my favorite story to hear from BPS: “I want to be president, I want to be an ambassador, I want to be a great politician, I want world peace, I want to study IR/IA/POSC/FS.” Then you ask for their grades, scores, and selections…now this one always amuses me, students w/o a hairs chances of getting into Princeton and biting their nails on getting into Georgetown…will then turn to me and say GWU is their back-up. And don’t you dare suggest American or Howard, that’s “TOO” far beneath them. </p>
<p>*Wake Forest - To tell you the truth, for quite sometime, even I passed judgement on the caliber of Wake Forest. Amongst Duke and UNC, there has been a slight undermining of Wake Forest’s beauty. That plus the fact that I can recognize Duke and UNC for top grad programs and sport while even educated Bostonians know Wake Forest for one thing…“FOOTBALL”.</p>
<p>-University of Rochester - I will say this for Rochester and ditto for pre-Katrina Tulane…so long as they send out college literature out at those absurd levels, they will maintain that image amongst Ivy-bounds as a safety just as WUSTL did/does. It just took a lot of rejection letters and a surge in U.S. News rankings for parents to realize that WUSTL was no joke. UofR, however has yet to gain that media stature.</p>
<p>*Tulane - See Rochester. i will also add that a few have seen post-Katrina Tulane as an opportune safety, not realizing that the school is decreasing it’s size to maintain admissions standards.</p>
<p>*Notre Dame - Do me a favor, scroll down the U.S. News Top 20 and tell are their any university to recognize sports and then great academics? There is one…University of Notre Dame. If you are an educated and informed citizens, congrats for knowing how great of an institution this is…but for the rest of you, take a moment and process the names: “UC-Berkeley…Georgetown…Johns Hopkins pre-med…NYU…Vanderbilt engineering…William & Mary”. Now, place Notre Dame in there? Kind of hard? You realize it’s a great school, but that good? Even my mind has trouble placing the quality of this institution, when all you can think of is football and Fighting Irish, how hard is it not too pass judgement!?</p>