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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're talking about applying to Holy Cross College when your reach is Notre Dame (for fans of the movie Rudy), then your kid will be in good company with the other kids who are waitlisted at Notre Dame and go to Holy Cross so they can be ready to make the jump.  But, if it's a really far drop in prestige and quality like that, your kid would be doing themselves a disservice if they weren't able to get into their reach.

If you're talking about a consortium situation, though, where they could still take a lot of courses or even major in a department with their reach, it might make sense.  Your kid might feel like a hanger-on, but if the reason for being interested in the reach was the academics, they could get some of that and they might even get some of the social depending upon how closely intertwined schools are in that consortium.[/quote]

Not a drop in prestige at all. Just a different kind, and not something they've ever expressed interest in. I do think they might to reapply to the reach, but I don't think locale matters for that. [/quote]

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