For those with kids already in college - how many applications v. acceptances?
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Anonymous
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DD 2024
17 total apps 3 likelies (admitted all 3) 3 targets (admitted 2, waitlist 1) 11 reaches (admitted one, waitlist 2, 8 rejections) Attending reach. |
Anonymous
| What this tells me, if your goal is a selective reach, apply to at least 10 if not more reaches. |
Anonymous
| Shotgunning works. |
Anonymous
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DC 2021 7 total: 3 reaches (3 rejects), 2 targets (1 accept, 1 WL), 2 safeties (2 accepts). Attending the target which was #1 choice.
DC 2024 8 total: 3 reaches (1 accept, 2 rejects), 4 targets (2 accept, 2 WL), 1 safety (1 accept). Attending the reach which was #2 choice. |
Anonymous
No idea. Rejected 3 Ivies and a slac |
Anonymous
Why apply to any reaches? |
Anonymous
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2024
16 applications 2 safeties - accepted 2 5 targets - accepted 5 9 reaches - accepted 5, rejected 3, waitlisted 1 Attends an Ivy now. In retrospect, too many applications. |
Anonymous
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Just one, to the only school he wanted to attend. Luckily he got in.
He was auto accepted to a safety school, which is where he would have gone if he did not get into his choice school. |
Anonymous
| DS 2024. 1 safety, 3 targets. In at all 4. 8 reaches. In at one, the rest WL and deny. Attending reach and all good so far. |
Anonymous
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DC1 2020 Applied to 6 targets, accepted to all.
DC2 2023 Applied ED, accepted... then one year later Applied to transfer to reach school..Got accepted but stayed in ED school. |
Anonymous
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8 applications. 1 safety, 3 targets, 4 reaches. Attending one of his reaches.
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Anonymous
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7 total apps
3 safeties (accepted to all) 2 matches (accepted to all) 1 high match (wl and declined to stay on list) 1 reach (rejected) |
Anonymous
Shotgunning helps the most with schools where you have a competitive profile. Sometimes it is hard to know how good your profile is...so you don't know where to aim. |
Anonymous
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12 apps: 7 reaches (3 acceptances, 3 waitlists, 1 rejection); 3 targets (3 acceptances); 2 likelies (2 acceptances).
She's at the reach school that was her first choice (and originally deferred her ED application). |
Anonymous
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DC#1 graduated HS in 2022.
Applied to 11, accepted to 8, WL at 3. Reaches: WL at 2, accepted at 1 (attending) Targets: WL at 1, accepted at 3 Safeties: accepted at 4 Merit offers with all 8 acceptances except for our in-state public (UMD) DC#2 graduated HS in 2024. Applied ED as an athletic recruit to a match, one and done! |