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Message: [QUOTE="Fishy, post: 4277440, member: 38"] We live in New York and she applied to Geneseo and Binghamton as her ’safety‘ schools, even though both are very good. She had originally intended to apply to Buffalo as well, but made an error with the common app submission and applied to Buffalo State by accident… A lot of schools went test-optional this year and between that and the class of 2025 kids who took a pandemic gap year, this year was a horror for applicants. So many good schools were flooded with applications and they simply did not have the ability to process them - a lot of kids did not get into schools they should have waltzed into and schools really put a lid on aid because they knew they could. It was a truly poor experience. Generally, the advice is to have a well-balanced resume, good grades, etc. - in reality, none of it matters. If your kid sunk hundreds of hours into something on his resume and some other kid spent three hours, it’s going to look the same to the admissions rep who spends 20 seconds on each. Basically, they are just going to want to a) protect their stats and b) protect their yield and c) collect as much in application and tuition fees as possible. [/QUOTE]