<p>You would be scrambling to get into a state school with rolling admission. Or you might have just made the best decision of your life.</p>
<p>I wonder if anyone has done this, ever? Just apply to Harvard just 'cause one possesses a 1337 GPA and even more 1337 SAT scores, with endless extracurriculars to round it out. And a kickass essay/recommendations to complement, too.</p>
<p>harvard would reject that person just because they only applied to harvard.</p>
<p>I only applied to Harvard…</p>
<p>…and it was my safety. Bow-chica-wow-wow</p>
<p>In my school several years ago, there was a student who ONLY applied to Harvard and MIT. Harvard was his “back-up”. He was asian and considered MIT harder to get into. He got rejected from MIT and accepted at Harvard…so I guess he was okay in the end. My school is no super-ultra-competitive school with multiple people going to Ivy League schools each year…they are few and far between.</p>
<p>Does a given school find out which other schools you applied to? Do ivies share that info amongst themselves?</p>
<p>I knew a guy who applied to only Westmont College (in Santa Barbara, CA) and Harvard, because those were the only schools he would want to go to. He got into Harvard!</p>
<p>Al Gore only applied to Harvard</p>
<p>But Gore was the son of a senator. Few of us are sons or daughters of senators, right?</p>
<p>This thread’s gonna be one of my favorite threads on cc…lol</p>
<p>not to single out Mal77 as he/she is certainly not the first to do this, but i think it should be a rule on this forum that no person ever again says “harvard is/was my safety.” it is not true, and it was never funny</p>
<p>^you obviously have never read any of Mal’s sarcastic responses before</p>
<p>If Harvard were*…</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>^SAT Writing!!
lol</p>
<p>Harvard is a safety. Who’s laughing? It’s that school you apply to because you know you’ll get in, but you don’t really want to go there.</p>
<p>Harvard is my safety! lol</p>
<p>“Harvard is that crappy community college across the river. Everyone applies there as a safety!”</p>
<p>If we only applied to Harvard, and were rejected, there’d be a lot of people (girls, anyway) pleading their case in front of the dean of Sarah Lawrence College. </p>
<p>Waldorf-style, anyone?</p>
<p>…you’d have a 93% of heading to your local CC after tomorrow!</p>
<p>I’m not lying…</p>
<p>Someone at my school did only apply to two schools, Harvard and MIT. Harvard was his “safety”. IDK whether he realized just how hard it was to get in or not. Either way, he DID get accepted there and goes there now. He DID get rejected from MIT, so it’s a good thing Harvard was his “safety”.</p>
<p>chuck norris only applied to harvard. he got into MIT, yale, princeton, and stanford, too. and harvard made him dean of admissions. we’re all just about to get roundhouse kicked in the face tomorrow night.</p>