Originally Posted by BeatNavy

Everyone gets into a regional (like high school). Not everyone gets into college. And even fewer get into a top tier college. So people who apply to Harvard typically have a backup or safety school. In this case, for someone wanting to go to Delta, having JetBlue as a “safety school” backup is a lot better than to hang out at the local high school hoping to convince Harvard to admit you year after year when you could go to state school and apply for a transfer into Harvard, or just take your state school degree and be happy with it. A state school diploma still beats a high school diploma.

That’s the analogy.