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[quote=Anonymous][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]

To be fair, I would say you aren’t understanding me. Have kid find one safety they would attend and apply.  For my current kid, that safety was Pitt.  Would have been happy to go there.  But once that acceptance was in-hand then they didn’t apply RD to Wisconsin bc they would have chosen Pitt.  I am not saying apply to no safeties. And, for some kids maybe they need a few merit offers so they will have more than one or apply to two bc deadlines overlap. What I am advocating against is the kid who applies to a school with absolutely no intention of going there… they haven’t done the research ahead of time, they want to see if they would get in, whatever.  Most of us know of kids who do this and it drives up the temperature.

I am on my third go round with kids’ college apps, and this has worked well this way for each of my kids with a different safety. In fact, last kid resisted the urge to apply to Pitt even though rolling would be “nice” to have bc they knew they wouldn’t go there and felt reasonably confident about a few other choices even though they came back a little later.[/quote]

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