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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I similarly take issue with high stats kids who apply to Pitt with absolutely no intention of going because it's fun to get an acceptance in September ("it makes it official that I'm going to college," said by 4.9 GPA IB kids with higher SAT scores is pretty ridiculous!). My average good kid who loved Pitt for whom Pitt is a solid target will have to compete with those kids next year and it seems really unfair. [/quote]

Your average good kid who loved Pitt should have worked harder in high school. [/quote]

I don’t think you can begrudge kids who apply as a legit safety meaning they would go there.  But no need to have two safeties.  Pick one and measure your other choices against it.  If you would choose school X over Pitt then don’t apply to Pitt. [/quote]

Plenty of kids out there who get into a Yale and rejected from safeties. Kids have to do what is in their own best interest not meet your bizarre sense of fairness[/quote]

To use your example, if they got into Yale why would they need unlimited safeties? [/quote]

Uh because they didn’t find out until March? Do you understand how time works?[/quote]

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