Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?

[Anonymous]

Do you have real examples, OP? Yes, someone from DC with no connection to Texas should not be applying to both Rice and Texas Southern.

[Anonymous]

On a hunch, I'm guessing that it's Ithaca College as a backup to Cornell. If that's the case, hard to imagine Ithaca being so desirable to get two spots, but no reason why not if DC loves gray and cold =)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On a hunch, I'm guessing that it's Ithaca College as a backup to Cornell. If that's the case, hard to imagine Ithaca being so desirable to get two spots, but no reason why not if DC loves gray and cold =)

It's not, but very similar situation, yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On a hunch, I'm guessing that it's Ithaca College as a backup to Cornell. If that's the case, hard to imagine Ithaca being so desirable to get two spots, but no reason why not if DC loves gray and cold =)

Lynchburg and Liberty?

[Anonymous]

Pitt and Carnegie Mellon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On a hunch, I'm guessing that it's Ithaca College as a backup to Cornell. If that's the case, hard to imagine Ithaca being so desirable to get two spots, but no reason why not if DC loves gray and cold =)

Lynchburg and Liberty?

Which could possibly be the reach?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pitt and Carnegie Mellon

Pittsburgh is bigger than 50K.

[Anonymous]

I think this is a ridiculous suggestion. Applying to multiple schools at different levels in a location the student likes is a good idea. I can’t imagine a kid pinning away over another school beyond move in day.

[Anonymous]

Amherst and Umass?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amherst and Umass?

Amherst and Hampshire

[Anonymous]

It is fine. Your kid will pivot if need be. Many have before him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once they decide where they're going, their attitude will likely change. I doubt all the Pitt kids are sad all the time because they couldn't go to CM. Instead, they love Pitt. Same with RIT. U Rochester and Nazareth.

Are you a 585 (716-OG) area code person? I never see Nazareth referenced.

[Anonymous]

If you're talking about applying to Holy Cross College when your reach is Notre Dame (for fans of the movie Rudy), then your kid will be in good company with the other kids who are waitlisted at Notre Dame and go to Holy Cross so they can be ready to make the jump. But, if it's a really far drop in prestige and quality like that, your kid would be doing themselves a disservice if they weren't able to get into their reach.

If you're talking about a consortium situation, though, where they could still take a lot of courses or even major in a department with their reach, it might make sense. Your kid might feel like a hanger-on, but if the reason for being interested in the reach was the academics, they could get some of that and they might even get some of the social depending upon how closely intertwined schools are in that consortium.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On a hunch, I'm guessing that it's Ithaca College as a backup to Cornell. If that's the case, hard to imagine Ithaca being so desirable to get two spots, but no reason why not if DC loves gray and cold =)

Watch yoursel. Ithaca is gorges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're talking about applying to Holy Cross College when your reach is Notre Dame (for fans of the movie Rudy), then your kid will be in good company with the other kids who are waitlisted at Notre Dame and go to Holy Cross so they can be ready to make the jump. But, if it's a really far drop in prestige and quality like that, your kid would be doing themselves a disservice if they weren't able to get into their reach.

If you're talking about a consortium situation, though, where they could still take a lot of courses or even major in a department with their reach, it might make sense. Your kid might feel like a hanger-on, but if the reason for being interested in the reach was the academics, they could get some of that and they might even get some of the social depending upon how closely intertwined schools are in that consortium.

Not a drop in prestige at all. Just a different kind, and not something they've ever expressed interest in. I do think they might to reapply to the reach, but I don't think locale matters for that.