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There is another reason they might be skipping over target schools: they don’t even know what the term means these days. The rising number of deferrals and outright rejections we’re seeing right now at campuses that would have been a target school two or three years ago—places like Florida State, Clemson, Furman, U. of South Carolina, for instance—illustrates “there’s no such thing as a target school anymore,” Allison Slater Tate, a college counselor in Florida told me.[/quote]

This part is so real. If you’ve found safeties you love, and you’re already coping with the crazy ED1/ED2/lottery situation for your reaches, what role are targets supposed to play? It used to be that a target was a better school than a safety, but with fairly predictable admission odds given your grades and test scores. But with grade inflation and test optional, everything seems random. And nowadays every safety has an honors college and plenty of strong kids who are there on merit. So what are target schools supposed to be for anymore anyway?[/quote]

My kid was deferred ED at a t10 then rejected, WL at a t30 reach, year abroad at another reach, accepted at all 3 targets and accepted at all 3 safeties.  Choose from two targets and a safety (with safety ranked #3).  Ultimately went to the top target which was a best fit for them

It worked as it should.  Got into all targets and safeties and didn’t get into reached (but was wl/go aboard freshman year so not completely rejected) [/quote]

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