<p>This is to anyone applying to colleges this fall. Worst case scenario: you get rejected from all reaches and colleges you though you would get into. What’s your plan? Is there a true safety you’re happy with? Or will you transfer?</p>
<p>Mine is if I get rejected from Duke, Georgia Tech, Berkeley, UT, etc, I will go to Texas A&M. It’s a great school and no matter where I get accepted it will still be something I will consider. It’s a true safety because of auto admit. </p>
<p>You guys?</p>
<p>Being rejected from a reach school isn’t a worst-case scenario. It’s expected.
If I got into a safety school, I’d go there. I wouldn’t have applied to a school I disliked.</p>
<p>Not a reach school, all the reach schools, all the matches. What is your truest safety</p>
<p>Remember to consider cost, financial aid, and scholarships at the schools in your application list, especially your safeties (a safety must be affordable unconditionally).</p>
<p>Worst case scenario, if I fall below the top 7% in my class and not get accepted into UT Austin (knock on wood), I may go to UNT, where my parents work. It’s not a bad school, but I’ve grown up on that campus and I want something new.</p>
<p>Thank you!(Finally a real answer)
I have a teacher who went there, can’t stop raving about it. What’s your major?</p>
<p>I’m a rising senior in high school, so I don’t have a major just yet. I’m planning on studying English and film. UNT is a good school, but it’s mainly a commuter school. And it can’t compare to UT Austin, which was named a public Ivy.</p>
<p>Also, Texas Tech is a great school. My uncle went there for engineering, and he loved it.</p>
<p>There’s a mantra I repeat to myself, “love thy safety”. I have three safeties (BTW I have a 4.3W/4.0UW most rigorous possible course load @ school and current 2250 SAT looking to improve once the june comes out), UCSD as a highly probable admit,and UCSB and UCSC absolute safeties. I’m also applying to a bunch of impossibles, Stanford, Pamona, MIT, Caltech, Brown, Harvey-Mudd, Bowdoin, and UPenn, a couple more UCs, and UMich. Also looking at Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Reed, and Wesleyan</p>
<p>I’m applying to a lot of colleges I should get into, a handful of colleges that will depend on my SAT scores and if I’m half as smart as I think I am =P
But! A lot of the colleges I like are WAY too expensive if I don’t get any scholarships or financial aid so that’s going to be a big factor. Worst are scenario I don’t get anything off of any of my colleges.
I’d go to Pitt or Penn state both of which I’d be very happy attending
In fact I might take them over some of my reaches depending on what I major in</p>
<p>Mine was the military or Evergreen State (yea can’t get much more different than that).</p>