<p>*but I think it can be hard to sell very strong students with high hopes on the idea of safety/financial safety schools as necessary as it is to have such schools on the list. *</p>
<p>Very strong students don’t always have very strong financial situations, so every year there are kids here on CC with strong stats who can’t afford the schools that they’ve gotten into. (then they mistakenly think applying to a bunch of private scholarships will save them…which, they won’t.)</p>
<p>And, three are the kids with strong stats who didn’t get into their top schools. </p>
<p>And, there are the kids whose parents have told them that they CAN afford their top choices, but then reality sets in or a financial fall-out occurs (loss of job, divorce, etc) sometime between Fall and Spring, and suddenly those top schools are no longer affordable.</p>
<p>So, everyone needs to have a couple of financial safety schools…just in case. :)</p>