<p>I have to disagree with you Hunt. There might be many different reasons to apply to other colleges and what we know about this “friend’s” reasons is all secondhand. </p>
<p>From our personal experience 2 years ago our DS got SCEA acceptance to a “trophy” school, but couldn’t decide where he would matriculate until April 25th. The EA school wasn’t even in his top 3 at the end. He sent 8 RD applications to other schools before his SCEA acceptance, though. We wanted to compare financial packages from different schools, not to collect “trophies”. Looking back, if he would wait for the SCEA acceptance before sending the rest, he would only drop one of the other 8.</p>