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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do kids apply to any safety school? If all else fails, it could be the best available option. [/quote]
Top students shouldn’t use schools like Syracuse and BC as safeties. Even if they get in, there will be very few other strong students at the school, because the school actively turns such students away. They’d be better off at a state flagship where at least there will be top in-state kids. [/quote]

Please tell us more about BC having very few strong students.[/quote]
Please tell me how a strong student could possibly get into BC. Everyone in this thread says that their scores and grades disqualify them, because BC cares more about yield![/quote]

They get in ED1 and ED2.  By regular decision BC only takes middle-of-the-class kids from most privates.  They waitlist or decline the strongest kids. [/quote]
In my experience NEU and Case Western also operate this way.  Not to say that they don't take some of the strongest kids but the bulk are a step down stat/strength of application-wise.[/quote]

With more and more of the class being filled by Early Decision for many of these schools (more than half and sometimes 2/3rds), this is more and more common.  Schools know that a 1580 SAT, 4.0, 15 APs, national award winner will have options.  BC, Case, Northeastern, pretty much every college outside the HYPSM Ivy plus bucket will accept this student in a heartbeat if they knew the student would attend.  That's where they rely on their modeling of the student.  Northeastern in particular leans heavily into this, they all do really, since it is in their interest.  If you're Northeastern and the choice is between a 1510 SAT 3.9 GPA student from a high school who sends 4 students a year, has visited the school, did webinars, opened links,  and wrote his common app about working in a job, you would be derelict if you chose the higher stat national award winner who never visited the site.

Or if the student attends a catholic school in Pennsylvania, plays a team sport, has a 3.95 with 1520 SAT, and his EC's are in business.  Would you offer admission to this student if you're BC versus the 1580 SAT national award winner?  [/quote]

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