What would be a better safety school?

happymomof1
Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:33:04 +0000

A safety is a place where you are absolutely guaranteed admissions because of your stats, that you can pay for without any aid other than guarantee federal aid and/or guaranteed state aid and/or guaranteed institutional aid, that offers your likely major, and that you would be happy to attend.

None of the places you have suggested would qualify as safeties unless you can find right on their websites that a student with your current ACT score and GPA is guaranteed admissions. If you can’t find a statement to that effect, you have to keep looking for a real safety.

If your own HS guidance counselor can tell you that every single student with grades and test scores like yours who applied to a particular college/university in the past few years has been accepted by that place, then that institution is reasonably safe for you too. So start with your guidance counselor. Where have students like you been admitted recently?