Our kid’s “safety” was my first choice for him. I will always wonder…
“Safety” is a pejorative term even if you don’t think you’re using it that way. It’s ridiculous to consider any school mentioned on this subforum as a safety for anyone. Believe it or not, high stats kids get rejected from ALL of them every cycle (because it’s not all about stats, right?), so let’s drop that term and not refer to any school by any artificial tiering mechanism. Remember, that BS you might be silently denigrating with this term is some other (high stats) applicant’s dream school. Go figure. 
I think it’s relevant to re-iterate @PhotographerMom’s pithy insights on the WL thread to this discusssion: