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[quote=Anonymous][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]

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

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I keep hearing this on this board, but how does one know what a TRUE safety is?  My DS had a 3.85 gpa and 1480 SAT and was shut out of JMU.[/quote]

Few of the respectable true safeties that a kid  that smart would enjoy are in the Northeast or adjacent states (eg, even U of Tennessee is apparently no longer a safety according to some posters). People have to start accepting the concept of picking safeties in some states that aren’t especially impressive to the country clubbers in the Boston-DC corridor. [/quote]

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