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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pitt has a ton of very smart kids. It attracts local kids that have no interest in Penn State and they often are eligible for some sort of tuition break.

My son goes there and you will be surprised how many professors have kids who go there instead of dealing with the tuition exchange.

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Agree.  Pitt is not a safety for OPs student.  [/quote]

I think Pitt is confusing, because a school can be a safety for two reasons.  One is that you know you'll be accepted, because they do automatic admissions based on stats, or because their admissions is very predictable and you are far above the line where they accept anyone.  Pitt is not a safety for OP's kid in that sense.

But a school can also be a safety because you've been accepted.  If you hear from a school in October that you're admitted, it becomes a safety.  Heck, if your kid gets into MIT EA, then it's a safety in the sense that you can withdraw or not send other applications.  A lot of kids apply to Pitt very early, and then once accepted don't apply to schools they like less than Pitt, because Pitt is now "safe" for them.

So, OP's kid may hear lots of peers with similar profiles referring to Pitt as their safety, and think of it as a "safety school", but that's because those kids applied in August, and heard back a long time ago. [/quote]

PP here - agree, good points![/quote]

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