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[b]There are no safety schools. [/b]It doesn't make a difference if you ranked those schools first over a HRCS, you will still get the same result (ie pray you get a high lottery number). We ranked Lee 5 this go around and would have had the same number on the wait list if we ranked it #1. Our lesson learned was don't spend so much time at open houses, rank the schools that you would like to send your DC to and in that order w/o thinking how you can game the system by ranking a "safety" higher up, have 12 choices and make your IB school #12 (unless that is really your #1)...because your only advantage and regardless of of your ranking.[/quote]

I think that by safety schools, people just mean listing 2 - 3 acceptable (to you, as a last resort) schools that don't traditionally have high demand or high waitlists, including of course your IB school.  You don't necessarily have to rank them high -- indeed you should rank all your schools in order of interest (so your safety and inbounds schools can be 10 - 12), but at the end of the day, you should include them in your top 12 -- just like if your child is only applying to Ivy League Schools, they should apply to a "safety" State school, just in case.[/quote]

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