Very afraid of Tuft's Syndrome

Colleges & Universities Rice University
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<p>Ok so I am applying to Rice on a whim, basically. I want to have one more college, because I’m gonna get rejected from almost all of the ones I already did anyway, and it’s free (Rice waives the application fee for participants of RSI). </p>

<p>I wasn’t too afraid of Tuft’s until I saw that they ask you to list your other colleges. What are you guys doing for this? If they see I went to RSI and that I am applying to HYPMS they’ll probably assume I’ll get in/matriculate in one of those. But for other reasons, I may not be doing so. What do I do?</p>

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<p>just write down ones you want them to see. generally, i think they just want to see what schools they are competing with</p>

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<p>At my son’s high school, the college counselors told students to leave that question blank.</p>

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<p>Could putting down competitive universities make Rice more prone to give you lots of merit money?</p>

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<p>putting down competitive universities might make rice think you’re only applying as a safety and then reject you. not that rice is really a safety, but yeah.</p>

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<p>Just be honest. You don’t want Rice to be taking you or denying you because of a lack of information or misinformation…</p>

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<p>Would you actually go if accepted? That’s what you need to decide. If you wouldn’t, then why apply?
A college wants to see that you have interest in them. Showing interest is what will solve Tufts Syndrome.</p>

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<p>I would probably not go over MIT, but I may not get into MIT. Everyone has a first choice. The reason you apply to so many other colleges is just in case you don’t get in.</p>

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<p>When I applied to Rice I put down all the universities I applied to. This included two Ivy’s (which I got rejected from), MIT (which I also got rejected from) and a few others.</p>

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<p>just be honest…rice asks the same thing.</p>

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<p>what happens if u write other schools?! Not the ones ur applying to?!</p>

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<p>bumpity!!!</p>

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<p>Do you guys honestly believe that when the admissions committee has thousands and thousands of applications to go through they are going to stop everything and spend hours pouring over the list of schools that you are going to apply to? They have to look at two short essay answers, one long essay, transcripts, test scores, EC activites, and letters of rec. I really doubt that the other list of schools will even come into play. Just say roughly that 8,000 people apply a year and the average essay length is three pages. That is going to be 24,000 pages of personal history and a heck of a lot of bad writing. Anyway most of the time you don’t even apply to all of the schools you put on that list. When I filled it out I thought I was going to apply to Cornell, Stanford, Brown, University of Chicago and a bunch of others. As it turns out I did not even apply to one of those schools.</p>

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<p>…perhaps because you were admitted ED, which prevents you from applying elsewhere…?</p>

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<p>I do not see how ‘Tuft’s Syndrome’ could exist in ED admissions: the fear is that highly qualified students will matriculate elsewhere even if admitted; however, ED binds applicants to matriculate at Rice, so any supposed fear would be misplaced.</p>

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<p>That is not entirely true about ED. You can still apply to other schools you just have to withdraw those applications if you are accepted to your first choice ED. I mean if you waited until finding out about your ED choice it would be in the middle of Christmas vacation. You would have no possible way to hand out rec forms to teachers and counselors to meet all of the Jan 1st college deadlines. I think worrying about putting what colleges you are applying to is sort of the same thing as worrying about what size envelope to use when sending in your application. It doesn’t really matter.</p>

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<p>the quality of the schools you put down doesn’t matter.
the number does.</p>