Everyone who does this helps to create part of the whole admissions game… the only winners are the schools … their stats look good… more selective etc…
I keep reading and hearing about kids who apply to schools they never plan to go to.
WHY???
Thanks
<p>uc irvine, uc davis, ucsd</p>
<p>and one other school... which i won't say.. or people will get very very angry.</p>
<p>uc davis, sdsu, cal poly slo, uc merced, uop</p>
<p>cal poly pomona and ucr because it's close to home. i applied just in case i had to live at home to save my parents money.</p>
<p>cal lutheran and santa clara university because they sent me some special application where they waived the application fee and essay.</p>
<p>SDSU, for super safety.</p>
<p>uc berkeley, irvine, santa cruz ... nyu and boston u</p>
<p>SDSU, Santa Clara, USD - safeties
UC Davis - close to home</p>
<p>ucsd...i seriously never even considered going there. it was either berkeley or davis or CC. </p>
<p>even a week before i received the ucsd admissions i was set on packing for davis. i didn't want to be far from my family or my girl and weirdly enough, my girlfriend was really supportive as well as my family and than i realized that seeing family once every month instead of 3 months was not a good reason to pass up on ucsd.</p>
<p>ucsd. ironically, i am now considering attending there.</p>
<p>uci cuz it was a safety for me and its waaaaaaaaay too close to home (ELC)</p>
<p>A bunch of schools my dad wanted me to go to for scholarships. I wouldnt have been happy at any of them. Washington & Lee is the main one I remember but there were a few more.</p>
<p>WPI, RPI, cal poly slo, ucsb, uci</p>
<p>the schools i applied to was UCLA(in),UCB(in), UCSD(in), USC(in), UCI(in), Stanford(waiting), Columbia(waiting), and NYU(waiting).
Stanford is the school i never intended to attend even if i got accepted. way to far from SoCal. Same for Columbia and NYU and the UC's. The only school that i want to go is USC really. haha weird story.</p>
<p>yale and columbia</p>
<p>It's going to snow in the Amazon jungle if I get in! (My parents will be glad if so anyway)</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
Yale</p>
<p>University of Alabama...it's not quite as good as Columbia will be.</p>
<p>UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, Cal State Northridge, Cal Poly SLO</p>
<p>Hey, Vale, don't you dare make it snow in the Amazon - that would be awful for our ecosystem.</p>
<p>Well, I just have to say that I understand it when people apply to a school they don't necessarily WANT to attend but WILL if they HAVE TO. Appying to schools you know you won't attend seems - uh, how can I be nice about this - silly, to say the least. Would anyone care to explain why this seems to be such a widespread practice? It really hurts those who actually want to get in and end up getting waitlisted or rejected (just because someone who never intended to attend got their space).</p>
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It really hurts those who actually want to get in and end up getting waitlisted or rejected (just because someone who never intended to attend got their space).
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<p>not really. colleges are fairly familliar with their yield rate, it doesn't change that much from year to year. so they usually know exactly how much to overshoot for acceptances. just because someone applies to that particular college but never intends to go, they don't "take" other people's spots. colleges know what they're doing.</p>
<p>Oooopssss - I'm sorry I have an opinion on the subject, Awakenedream... But I beg to differ. I think people do get hurt when they get waitlisted and have to go through the stress of not knowing where they're going for another month or so (even if they do end up getting accepted). And you didn't answer my question... : )</p>