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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS has an EA acceptance to his top choice in hand, so this is pretty much anxiety and idle curiosity speaking. Since admissions can be holistic and somewhat capricious, what happens when a solid student (say, 4+ GPA and 1400+ SAT with great EC's) is shut out from everywhere they applied, even targets and safeties? I'm guessing this happens with a lot of safeties that have more of an 80% admit rate than higher. Do you know anyone this has happened to?[/quote]

If the student applies to several TRUE safeties (versus what they think should be safeties), then no, they won't get shut out.

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+1000

TRUE safeties (IMO) are acceptance rates of 50-60%+, your students is at/+ 75% for GPA and SAT/ACT, and your kid has demonstrated strong interest, and most importantly, your kid actually likes the school and wants to attend.

And yes if you do it correctly, your kid should get into 75%+ of their safeties.

My 1490/3.98UW/9APs kid got into all their safeties and all their targets.  3 safeties gave excellent merit (over 40% of tuition).  2 targets gave great merit as well (both were in T50).  
Was deferred/ultimately rejected from their ED (T10/5% acceptance rate), WL at a T30 (9% acceptance rate) and first year abroad for a sub10% acceptance rate school.  
So it went exactly as expected

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