The Fallacy of "Dream Schools"

[born2dance94]

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I believe that your college list is only a strong as your weakest safety. </p>

<p>I don’t really agree with this. A lot of people already have enough safeties but apply to extra safeties for some reason (usually if it’s just checking a box, like adding an extra UC). Applying to those extra safeties, when they already know that they will get into a better safety, doesn’t weaken their college lists, it just makes them spend some more money.

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<p>@bobtheboy What I meant by that is not that your list will be weakened by adding more safety schools, but that you always have to keep in mind that’s there a chance-- albeit an extremely tiny one-- that you could get rejected from all but that weakest safety. At which point, your list is now only that strong.</p>