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[quote=Anonymous]Although I'm all for aiming high, I wish more people had been realistic with my DS who is currently a senior. Have your DS apply to his dream school and several that are likely, then if he still has the energy and desire to do some more "possible" or "reaches" have him do those. I wish DS had put more energy into the likely and a few possibles, rather than all his energy into possibles and reaches with only one likely. His friends all have acceptances right now while he's sitting with only deferrals or places he hasn't heard from. The kids with some acceptances early are much happier, and seemed even more motivated to put that one more regular decision application in if their ED was a no or deferral. I wish someone had better explained to my DH how much more competitive the entire process is than it was 30 years ago and that we had encouraged and talked about all the positives of ALL schools, not just the reaches.[/quote]
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