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[quote=Anonymous]Your DD has a choice. Either use ED for a "dream" school where she has about a 10% chance of admissions, or use if for something more realistic. If you burn your ED on a reach, then being in a regular applicant pool makes even the 'match' schools that much more difficult.

Think of it this way, there are 50,000 NMSF who have 1550+ on their SAT's and 3.9-4.5 GPA's, many of whom are also editor of their newspapers, 4-8 varsity letters, 200+ hours of community service all applying for the same slots at the same top 20 schools. Add to it all of the international students and you can see where the numbers become untenable.

Add to that, slots used for target students: athletes, some legacies, URMs and it gets to be like a lottery.

There has to be something so compelling in the DD of the OP's story to catch the eye of an AD. If she doesn't have that story, the stats are unlikely to get her into the conversation, no matter how smart, well composed, hard working etc she might be.

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