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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know so many high stats kids who are applying to rolling EAs like Pitt and publics like Wisconsin and MN, when they have no intention of going. These are not their real safeties.

They're kids who just always do the most, so why not apply august before senior year begins to a bunch of EA publics because "I want to get my safeties in early, and I can apply to these schools and also do SCEA to Yale". Oh, okay!

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Wait, I don’t get it. Why are early rolling schools “not real safeties”?[/quote]

PP  They are. But the kids I'm talking about really are hoping for T20 schools and the safety of choice is Macalaster or Santa Clara or GW or Wisconsin. And they should apply to a couple, but they apply to all of them plus Pitt but SUNY and then also GMU and maybe McGill because there's no essay and also UVM because they like to ski and it's like .. you really don't need 10 safeties, guy. You have a 1540, you're full pay, and are coming from a private school.

More and more I think private schools that limit apps are doing god's work on this.[/quote]

Hmmm. I don’t know. I can tell you are just a commentator on the side without a kid going through the process today.

My kid applied to:

5 safeties. 
6 targets and 
11 reaches.
Pretty balanced.
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Actually I have a kid in the class of 25. Got into their SCEA so one and done. And our school does limit apps so doing 22 is far far outside my experience though[/quote]

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