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There is another reason they might be skipping over target schools: they don’t even know what the term means these days. The rising number of deferrals and outright rejections we’re seeing right now at campuses that would have been a target school two or three years ago—places like Florida State, Clemson, Furman, U. of South Carolina, for instance—illustrates “there’s no such thing as a target school anymore,” Allison Slater Tate, a college counselor in Florida told me.[/quote]

This is a critical point (and sort of undermines his whole premise). My kid applied to two super-reaches, three reaches, one target, and three safeties. Two of the reaches should have been targets based on stats, but their acceptance rates are in the low- to mid-teens, so they’re automatically reaches. (The target was one where my kid’s stats should have made it a safety, but its acceptance rate is only 25-30%, so how can that be a safety?)

Building this around the “target” concept confuses the matter. What he’s really saying is, if you’re a private school but not top-ranked/highly desirable and don’t offer generous merit, your market is getting smaller and smaller. Target is not really a useful concept these days.
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