<p>I'm just wondering what you think about people that get desperate and send all of the schools they applied to saying they are their first-choice and everything. Are you against it? Has anyone here done that? Just wondering.</p>
<p>I believe that is dishonest. </p>
<p>Imagine that a dance is happening soon and a guy asks ten girls to go the dance with him to insure that SOMEONE will say yes. Then he says that to each and every girl that she is the only one he would ever want to go with. Then they all say yes! So who is he going to choose? The prettiest one? The nicest one? I mean, he can’t choose all of them. He can only choose ONE. Most likely the one that was always his first choice. The other girls would probably be hurt that they were lied to and upset that they have NO date. All because one guy wanted to make sure HE had a date. It’s kind of selfish when you really think about it. </p>
<p>I just don’t believe that it is right. </p>
<p>If you were an AO and you knew that your school was a student’s FIRST CHOICE wouldn’t you handle their application differently? Wouldn’t you want to accept them if you knew they had the capacity to survive and thrive at your school? Yes? No? That was rhetorical. Just a little something to think about. </p>
<p>I only got accepted to my first choice school probably because I was pedaling first choice letters since August 2011. And when other schools asked me what my top choice was I told them the truth. I believe that you should find a school you wholeheartedly identify with and can see yourself attending and send THEM your first choice letter. I just don’t think it’s right to send more than one to different schools.</p>
<p>If you’re talking about schools that have waitlisted you, then it’s just a question of how it’s worded. You don’t need to say “first choice” - but rather that if the school offers you a spot, you’ll enroll. And, yes, you can say that to each of the schools (so long as it’s true), because you WILL accept a spot at the first school that makes an offer . . . and then you will immediately withdraw from the wailists at all the other schools.</p>
<p>So it’s NOT the same as telling all the schools they’re your first choice when you first submit your applications.</p>
<p>Schools also trade info about their waitlists. Thats a big OOPS when several figure out you wrote to them all the same thing.</p>
<p>I doubt it would help much, at this point, if you are on the waitlist. Most schools take you off if you fit the demographic they need to fill, and first choice letters don’t make you that. They already know how much you want to go- you applied, and then you were willing to stay on the waitlist. So even if it didn’t violate ethics (as bksvet310 described), IMO it wouldn’t help anyway.</p>