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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly, I don't know what I would have done differently. While I hate to say this, but reading this board and college confidential really helped manage expectations in terms of what colleges DD should apply to. Ultimately, she got into 10 out of 12 schools. The schools that she didn't get into were schools that were high reaches for nearly everyone- Carnegie Mellon and University of Pennsylvania. Also, knowing how difficult it is to get into those schools made the rejection completely fine. I know some people have the attitude of "just apply" or "you will never win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket" - but we wanted to limit our lottery tickets because we weren't sure how bad the mental toll would be upon seeing rejection after rejection. Having said that, DD has strong stats and got into all the top schools in the state (W&M, UVA, etc), but we knew that even with strong stats, the chances of getting into the reach schools that DD got denied from were in the single digits. Also, we never discussed "dream schools." [/quote]
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