safety, match, reach, high reach

cptofthehouse
Mon, 19 May 2008 19:56:24 +0000

Ilsa, I too missed the reference to your son’s health. I am sorry that this is an additional factor. It is always better to be close when such issues are at hand. But it sounds like you have an array of colleges near you in the NE. It is true that it can be more difficult to be a “local” when applying to a selective school. He certainly should apply ED if that is his fave choice and the stats show that it will help him. In any case, with the state school as a back up and any number of smaller schools in your area that may take him right away, I think he is set in terms of safeties.

I have family in Delaware who just does not have such options, It’s truly UD or bust for them. And UD is not a safety for them but a reach. Makes it difficult in such circumstances. My third one is heading out to college this fall and is going to his farthest school. All three have picked far away colleges but this one takes the cake. And he applied to the most local schools, and got some wonderful pickings that way with merit aid. But this one struck him as his best match. He fell in love, and that was it.