<p>???</p>
<p>at the moment, mine is Wash U in St. Louis</p>
<p>wash u as a safety?
don’t they have like a 25% acceptance rate?</p>
<p>She may have special circumstances.</p>
<p>I am going to be applying only to Yale and two other schools (both of which have <25% acceptance rates; I will not name them for ID reasons), but I am treating the others as safeties because my raw numbers essentially gurantee me a spot at one and my family has given a lot of money to the other.</p>
<p>If one gets several nomnations from their school to compete for full scholarships at some pretty top colleges and letters from some other top schools inviting them to apply for particular scholarships, does that mean that there is probably a good chance that even if they don’t ultimately get the scholarship they have a good chance of being accepted at those schools?</p>
<p>maybe. but sometimes colleges send those letters to a lot of people just to get them to apply. for instance, WashU has a history of aggressively recruiting kids and then not giving them any merit aid/waitlisting/rejecting them.</p>
<p>That is true with Wash U, but that group who they market to and who they waitlist ect tend to be students who dont really have the high SAT scores they are looking for. Wash U actually does the opposite with high SAT scorers. Most of the applicants who apply to Wash U and would be candidates to HYP many of whom have never expressed much interest in the school are invited in the spring before they hear from any of the ives regular decission and are offered all klinds of merit money to come, while they reject wait list most of the applicants who they have sent mail to over the years.
I am not talking about getting solicitation letters from the schools. I am talking about top schools like Duke ect that offer full merit scholarships and contact high schools across the country and ask those schools to nominate or recommend a few students for those scholarships, where the students are nominated becaues of high SAT score and class rank, extraordianry qualitities ect.</p>
<p>Do you all realize that the OP asked current students, not prospective ones?</p>
<p>But since everyone else is answering, I’ll jump on the bandwagon. Mine are Rutgers, Maryland, George Washington, and Boston U.</p>
<p>Syracuse (legacy 4 generations), UVirginia (legacy 3 generations), overseas in England as another hopeful.</p>
<p>Had I not been successful with Yale SCEA, I would’ve applied regular to Swarthmore, Harvard, UChic, Princeton, Amherst, BU (w/ Trustee Scholarship)</p>
<p>I would’ve been fortunate to attend any of those schools, and more fortunate still to have a choice among them, but I felt like I could’ve found a home at Swat, UChicago, Princeton, or Harvard. Swat and UChicago celebrate their intellectuality / geekiness while still managing to be relatively self-deprecating about it, which I found appealing. Princeton seemed like a stellar undergraduate education with some extraordinarily accomplished individuals, and Harvard seemed like 4 years with some of the nation’s brightest, with Boston as your very own playground (part of the appeal of BU as well).</p>
<p>All the best,
DMW</p>
<p>You think Swarthmore is good?</p>
<p>george washington</p>
<p>Why wouldn’t Swarthmore be good?</p>
<p>I think Swat is amazing. In my opinion, it’s more openly intellectual than Amherst / Williams, which I think cultivate much more of a gentleman-jock / scholar-athlete vibe. Swarthmore, to me, represented “happy nerdity” and it was great. It’s liberal arts education is as rigorous as can be. I would’ve been lucky to be able to attend there.
All the best,
DMW</p>
<p>How are Swat, UChicago, Harvard, and Princeton safeties in any way? They’re peer schools to Yale in selectivity.</p>
<p>I don’t think that poster was suggesting they were safeties, but merely those were the schools he was planning on applying to if he had not gotten in SCEA.
Some safeties for those applying to HYP might be the following, depending on if they are interested in going to that part of the country. Swartmore is a wonderful school, although some find it a little too liberal as is Wesleyan.
Here are some schools I would consider safeties. In no particular order. I know that these sound high for safeties, but if someone with the stats for HYP has several of these on their list, they should be able to get into at least two of them.
1.Emory
2. Washington University in St Lous (difficult to get into, but not usually if you have the statistics to apply to HYP. In fact Wash U invites high SAT scorers out the weekend of April 1st and offers a lot of merit money to entice those to come, while others who really were hoping to go to Wash U are left hanging on.
3. University of Chicago
4. Cornell (they tend to get a number of applicants who apply who try to reach themselves in. Those applying with high SAT scores tend to be accepted over those with lower scores, especially in the regular decision round.
5. Vanderbilt.
6. Haverford
7. NYU
8. Bucknell
9. George Washington
10. University of Miami</p>
<p>Wash U can be a safety school for applicants who have high SAT scores. Wash U keeps the rest of their applicants hanging but will do anything to try to get those with high scorers who might also apply to HYP. Wash U is well known for stringing everyone along especially during regular decision, and inviting those with high SAT scores out for a weekend in April, even if those scorers never expressed interest in the school other than putting in an application. They invite almost 2,000 applicants out free of charge and after that weekend they offer many of them full scholarships or partial scholarships to attend. Thus it would be a safety school for those with extremely high SAT scores.</p>
<p>Um I don’t think so… but let’s not get into a discussion about WashU here. Save that for another board.</p>
<p>What would be considered an extremely high SAT score for WashU, one that would most likely grant an invitation to the campus in April?</p>
<p>I think he’s talking about the multicultural weekend thing… right?</p>