Anonymous
10/27/2023 15:39
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
Anonymous wrote:If you're talking about applying to Holy Cross College when your reach is Notre Dame (for fans of the movie Rudy), then your kid will be in good company with the other kids who are waitlisted at Notre Dame and go to Holy Cross so they can be ready to make the jump. But, if it's a really far drop in prestige and quality like that, your kid would be doing themselves a disservice if they weren't able to get into their reach.
If you're talking about a consortium situation, though, where they could still take a lot of courses or even major in a department with their reach, it might make sense. Your kid might feel like a hanger-on, but if the reason for being interested in the reach was the academics, they could get some of that and they might even get some of the social depending upon how closely intertwined schools are in that consortium.
Not a drop in prestige at all. Just a different kind, and not something they've ever expressed interest in. I do think they might to reapply to the reach, but I don't think locale matters for that.
Anonymous
10/27/2023 15:07
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
Anonymous wrote:On a hunch, I'm guessing that it's Ithaca College as a backup to Cornell. If that's the case, hard to imagine Ithaca being so desirable to get two spots, but no reason why not if DC loves gray and cold =)
Watch yoursel. Ithaca is gorges.
Anonymous
10/27/2023 15:02
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
If you're talking about applying to Holy Cross College when your reach is Notre Dame (for fans of the movie Rudy), then your kid will be in good company with the other kids who are waitlisted at Notre Dame and go to Holy Cross so they can be ready to make the jump. But, if it's a really far drop in prestige and quality like that, your kid would be doing themselves a disservice if they weren't able to get into their reach.
If you're talking about a consortium situation, though, where they could still take a lot of courses or even major in a department with their reach, it might make sense. Your kid might feel like a hanger-on, but if the reason for being interested in the reach was the academics, they could get some of that and they might even get some of the social depending upon how closely intertwined schools are in that consortium.
If you're talking about a consortium situation, though, where they could still take a lot of courses or even major in a department with their reach, it might make sense. Your kid might feel like a hanger-on, but if the reason for being interested in the reach was the academics, they could get some of that and they might even get some of the social depending upon how closely intertwined schools are in that consortium.
Anonymous
10/27/2023 14:54
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
Anonymous wrote:Once they decide where they're going, their attitude will likely change. I doubt all the Pitt kids are sad all the time because they couldn't go to CM. Instead, they love Pitt. Same with RIT. U Rochester and Nazareth.
Are you a 585 (716-OG) area code person? I never see Nazareth referenced.
Anonymous
10/27/2023 14:50
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
It is fine. Your kid will pivot if need be. Many have before him.
Anonymous
10/27/2023 14:50
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
Anonymous wrote:Amherst and Umass?
Amherst and Hampshire
Anonymous
10/27/2023 14:48
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
Amherst and Umass?
Anonymous
10/27/2023 14:48
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
I think this is a ridiculous suggestion. Applying to multiple schools at different levels in a location the student likes is a good idea. I can’t imagine a kid pinning away over another school beyond move in day.
Anonymous
10/27/2023 14:48
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
Anonymous wrote:Pitt and Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburgh is bigger than 50K.
Anonymous
10/27/2023 14:48
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:On a hunch, I'm guessing that it's Ithaca College as a backup to Cornell. If that's the case, hard to imagine Ithaca being so desirable to get two spots, but no reason why not if DC loves gray and cold =)
Lynchburg and Liberty?
Which could possibly be the reach?
Anonymous
10/27/2023 14:46
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
Pitt and Carnegie Mellon
Anonymous
10/27/2023 14:15
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
Anonymous wrote:On a hunch, I'm guessing that it's Ithaca College as a backup to Cornell. If that's the case, hard to imagine Ithaca being so desirable to get two spots, but no reason why not if DC loves gray and cold =)
Lynchburg and Liberty?
Anonymous
10/27/2023 13:39
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
Anonymous wrote:On a hunch, I'm guessing that it's Ithaca College as a backup to Cornell. If that's the case, hard to imagine Ithaca being so desirable to get two spots, but no reason why not if DC loves gray and cold =)
It's not, but very similar situation, yes.
Anonymous
10/27/2023 13:33
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
On a hunch, I'm guessing that it's Ithaca College as a backup to Cornell. If that's the case, hard to imagine Ithaca being so desirable to get two spots, but no reason why not if DC loves gray and cold =)
Anonymous
10/27/2023 13:28
Subject: Applying to safety school in same city as reach - bad idea, right?
Do you have real examples, OP? Yes, someone from DC with no connection to Texas should not be applying to both Rice and Texas Southern.