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Hmm. I think the real message here is:

Have a realistic sense of where the applicant might end up.

1. Don't throw most of your application chances away on reaches. 
2. Matches are schools where you're at the very top of the grade/score mid-range that most schools publish. 
[b]3. A safety can only be a safety if the applicant tailors their supplemental essay to the school in a convincing enough way that they don't exert yield protection.
[/b]4. If you're only applying to tiny schools, there's only so many students they can accept each year. In that case, you'd better apply to more schools. The worst mistake a high-achieving private school student makes is applying to 10 SLACS with grades/scores that hit smack in those schools' mid-range. Because they take a few hundred freshmen a year, and the student isn't Ivy League level so doesn't stand out as a priority admit.[/quote]

Any school that's reading your essay and doing yield protection (a very small minority of schools) is not a safety.  [b]A safety is a school that accepts just based on stats where you know your stats will get you in.  [/b]

By limiting their applications, GDS sends a message that kids are serious about the schools they're applying to.  If you want the enormous admissions advantage that you get applying from GDS, you need to cooperate with their system, because it's one of the reasons their kids do so well in the process.

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You don't seem to understand what a safety is, PP. Someone's reach school can be someone else's safety. Most colleges and universities ask for essays, and when they ask, be very assured that they read it!!!
Schools are not stupid and know full well who their competitors are, meaning which other schools an applicant is likely to have applied to, given what they wrote in their personal statement, the intended major and their stats. If  the supplemental doesn't convince them the applicant might actually accept their offer, instead of going to the higher-rated competitor, they might just yield-protect.
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