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[quote=Anonymous]None.  None at all.  We have four kids.  We helped each come up with but small and realistic lists of safeties, targets and reaches and didn’t freak out about anything because we knew it was just college, not an arranged marriage, and that they’d all be just fine.

Three of our kids were high achievers, but it wasn’t like they were going Ivy League.  One applied to Brown, knowing she wouldn’t get it but figuring what the hell.  Didn’t get in but got into several top LACs and ended up accepting a big merit offer to Grinnell over Carleton and William & Mary.  Two others ended up at UVA after also getting into Tech and JMU and a few top privates that they concluded weren’t worth the money.

The one kid we had who wasn’t a strong student academically for a variety of reasons was nevertheless the best test taker of the bunch.  Only applied to a couple of schools and ended up at VCU and loving it, as did we.

I think all four combined applied to fewer schools than one typical DCUM kid.  It’s hard not to get caught up in the whole frenzy or to recognize that when it comes to colleges there is more than one perfect “soul mate.”  But if you can do that you’re much better off.

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