But having wrong preferences in the first place isn't the kind of strategic mistake they're talking about. It's thinking of the type "my 1st preference is scho

But having wrong preferences in the first place isn't the kind of strategic mistake they're talking about. It's thinking of the type "my 1st preference is school A, but I probably won't get in, so I'll say my preference is B so that I get that at least" in cases where they would have got into A if they had stated it as their #1.