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Hmm. I think the real message here is:

Have a realistic sense of where the applicant might end up.

1. Don't throw most of your application chances away on reaches. 
2. Matches are schools where you're at the very top of the grade/score mid-range that most schools publish. 
3. A safety can only be a safety if the applicant tailors their supplemental essay to the school in a convincing enough way that they don't exert yield protection.
4. If you're only applying to tiny schools, there's only so many students they can accept each year. In that case, you'd better apply to more schools. The worst mistake a high-achieving private school student makes is applying to 10 SLACS with grades/scores that hit smack in those schools' mid-range. Because they take a few hundred freshmen a year, and the student isn't Ivy League level so doesn't stand out as a priority admit.[/quote]

I like the general spirit of this comment. Yet, the cold hard facts are way different today than even 5 years ago.

-Acceptance rates are down by 1/3rd to 2/3rds at MANY top 50 schools and even to 100s.

-The SAT optional thing is mostly a ruse for elite private school applicants - Compass Prep has gathered exhaustive data from Top 50 schools that shows 1.5x to 3x acceptance rate advantage for those who submitted scores vs. those who did not in 2021 and 2022.

-That's pushed middle 50th SAT up to high 1400s to 1500s for many Top 50

-GDS dropped APs (different thread threads on this) and did not always backfill with UL courses so calculating weighted GPA is not apples to apples to even other elite private schools in US

-so what was once a safety and target - even a few years ago is not that at all.

I guess itboils down to whether GDS will be happy if big chunk of class ends up in lower 51-100 or 101 to 150th ranked schools because this is where the trend is headed.

A simple fix would be to expand to 12 or 15 cap recognizing changes in environment.

Last I checked, goal of this school is to get kids into best possible school for them for the year they are applying. Capping at 10 seems entirely not aligned with facts TODAY

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