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[quote=Anonymous]I would explain to her that the very top schools in this country are basically a lottery. If you have absolutely superb grades, test scores, extracurriculars, and essay, that simply buys you a lottery ticket. So if you qualify, go ahead and buy the lottery tickets to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford. You might get lucky! But find schools she likes that don't operate like this to apply to as well. Find out why she is drawn to Yale. If it's just the idea that it's the "best", start telling her now that there is no one best school for everyone and college is way more what you make of it. If it's something else about Yale that she is drawn to, find other less selective schools that meet those criteria. They absolutely exist, she just hasn't heard of them yet.[/quote]
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