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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

That is indeed strange -- was your DS actually rejected by JMU?  Even so, it goes to show that you need to apply to several true safeties.  Even if one or two reject due to yield protection, etc., you still won't get shut out.  [/quote]

He applied EA, was deferred, then waitlisted. It was his #1 choice. He wanted a large school that had a good program in his major. His counselor fully believed he would have no problem getting into JMU. He had no illusions of getting into more difficult schools. He ultimately accepted admission at an OOS school that gave him good merit.  [/quote]

I really don't understand this.  Know several kids with scores in the 1100s and 1200s that were accepted at JMU.  They applied OOS, so perhaps JMU gives a bump to OOS kids / figure the kid really wants to attend if applying OOS?[/quote]

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