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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So far DD has applied to 4EA schools and 1 RD. She really wants to be done but won’t  hear back from her top choice (UMD) until RDs are due.

I vacillate between feeling confident about her strategy and anxious she’s not casting the net wide enough. She has very specific criteria and feels okay about taking a gap year if none work out.

Accepted rates are predicted by CollegeVine based on her profile and validated by Naviance. They are not the overall acceptance rates and I know they aren’t reliable but they’re the best data we’ve got.

Submitted: 1 private far reach (21%), 2 public targets (56% and 78%), and 2 public safeties (98 and 99%)

Not yet submitted: 2 private hard targets (28% and 36%), 1 private target (85%)

Would you push your kid to do the last three or roll the dice on 5 applications and call it quits? Her MCPS guidance counselor advised at least 8.[/quote]

Especially if you can pay, say, $45,000 per year, she could just stop now.

If she’s unhappy with the results, and she’s somewhat flexible about where she goes, she can always apply to schools that still have seats to fill in April or later. There’s a group called NACAC that always published a long list of schools that still have open seats well into spring. [/quote]

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