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[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.

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

I completely agree with this. My kid was deferred early and then between EA apps already submitted and RD submitted 25 apps. In large part because other kids from the school also submitted that many, including several of the kids that are assumed to be at the very top of the class (but were also deferred). So worry set in that the top kids would get all the spots and then the thinking became "i have to make sure i apply to a school that my very top friend did not". It's all so stupid. I would 1000% love if the school only allowed 10 apps a kid. It would have really helped this. [/quote]

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