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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you still have younger children who will attend the school that could be a problem for them/you when it is their turn to apply for colleges[/quote]

It is safe to assume that a university that goes through 50,000-80,000 applications each year is not going to keep track that Larla's big brother declined his acceptance 4 years and over 200,000 applications ago.[/quote]

Different poster and different circumstances, but I’m not entirely sure if this is true. Our oldest was accepted to Notre Dame and turned it down, and several years later our younger daughter, who was better qualified and actually visited the Notre Dame campus, applied and was rejected.  Not even waitlisted.  And she was a legacy.

She was unfazed because it was never a top choice of hers, and she landed on her feet fine, but we had to wonder if our older daughter’s decision had an impact.[/quote]

Oh sure. Because the many, many readers and evaluators in the ND admissions office were so devastated that your DD turned them down that they all got together years later and said, “oh boy, we’ll show the Smith family now!”[/quote]

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