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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, your DD sounds like many of the smart kids I have known in the last 10 years.  I think there are very few schools that she might find too "intellectual" (maybe MIT/Chicago/Williams) - that will be a much shorter list than ones she should consider.  Instead of focusing on the social environment, I would consider other factors to guide your search (school size, location, etc.).  I would really caution you about thinking she will get in almost everywhere, because that is not what is happening for even the most high stats students.

I have kids now out of college who I might have described like yours, except perhaps more into athletics, and they ended up at Ivy/NESCAC/CAA type schools.  [/quote]

Yep.

And it is much much tougher since Covid and test optional.  Kids like this are getting rejected in droves.  Acceptance rates are single digits in top 20s.  Literally thousands of kids just like yours —and them throw in all the ones that aren’t submitting test scores.[/quote]

Application #s are through the roof.  You have 50k to close to 100k students applying to a given university.

It’s bleak out there for kids like OPs in the top 25 schools.[/quote]

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