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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When applying to colleges and universities, applying to at least 3 safeties is the most important. If a student accurately identifies & applies to 3 safeties, then the number of apps to other schools should not be a concern.

If up to me, I would limit students to 12 applications although 10 is also a reasonable limit.[/quote]

With high stats kids being yield protected from safeties, it doesn't seem like safeties exist anymore.[/quote]

Your kid needs to show interest, convince the safety why they want to attend.  Safeties do exist.  A school with a 50-60%+ acceptance rate does not just reject all high stats applicants.  But your "why School X" essay has to be meaningful, you need to show interest and contact admissions/dept chairs/etc and let them think you actually want to attend.  If you do that, you will get into at least 50% of your safeties. And you should have at least 2 safeties that have 75%+ acceptance rates...those do NOT yield protect, they are going to accept your high stats kid, 99% of the time. 
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Disagree. Not every school has an ILY essay. We're seeing that's not the case. [/quote]

So the person posting their son was rejected at Auburn for Engineering but got into Purdue.  Well it looks like Auburn does have supplemental essay.  So in that case, it could easily be something in the essay.  Also, for engineering the acceptance rate is not 70% (dont' have the time to see what it is for auburn but it is lower than the overall school) [/quote]

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