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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, the visits will answer almost all of your questions. Each of the four has its own advantages and disadvantages. It is very likely that she will be able to rank her personal preferences among the four for ED1, ED2, and RD after the visits.

They are all reaches. Start thinking about matches and safeties.

Make sure you can afford them all. Use each of their Net Price Calculators.[/quote]

I definitely have. She has GW and Fordham in mind for safeties. All of the schools she has picked are affordable[/quote]

Fordham and GW are targets, NOT safeties.  Advice kindly meant to a newbie. [/quote]

Husband is convinced they're safeties. What school should she add as a true safety then?[/quote]

If you had said Harvard or MIT were targets then GW and Fordham would be safeties. But if you consider Northeastern, BU, Tufts, and BC DC’s targets then a true safety would be U Mass Boston.[/quote]
This is hilarious.  NEU, BC, Tufts and BU not targets for anyone.  Even for top students, by acceptance rates they are low reaches [/quote]

My DS applied to NEU and BC last year.  1580 SAT, 4.0 UW GPA, very good recommendations and ECs.  He got rejected from NEU.  I assume it may have been yield protection, but who knows?  He got into BC, and is now at UVA. [/quote]

My kid had the opposite result.  1540 SAT 3.97 UW GPA, good recommendations and not bad ECs.  
Applied EA to NEU. NEU was a good fit and accepted to Boston campus.
Applied  EA to UVA(In-state), Waitlisted by UVA
UVA was at the bottom of the list anyways, so was like ok whatever and is now at NEU.

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If it was the top choice why didn't he ED to NEU then? [/quote]

It wasn't the top choice.  
Applied to a few T20ish lottery schools including REA to Yale, but didn't make it. 
Also she was the first kid and didn't know as much as now about the whole admission tricks.

For VA schools, UVA CS in art & science(waitlisted) and VT CS(got in).
Probably should've applied undecided to UVA as it's relatively easy to declare CS major in A&S.
DD wanted to go out of state anyways, and it worked out fine in the end.

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