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[quote=Anonymous]Not an issue if your child is proactive about making it clear to schools he/she is really interested. If an athlete, that is easy, go to some summer camps for the sport between 10th and 11th and again 11th and 12th, and even spring break, most are just 2-3 days, a great way to see the school and interact with current students/coaches and get the school interested in your kid, even if the coach doesn't end up recruiting, during the camp they do official tours, sign up as being interested, it "demonstrates interest" which is key at these small schools chasing stupid US News rankings points (i.e. they want kids they admit to come and won't admit kids they don't think will come).  After camps, email coach about continued interest and again before applications go in.  IF not an athlete, see if any any summer programs exist at the school (writing, languages-for instance at Middlebury, leadership).  Go to local college presentations even if the schools don't send an admissions rep to your kids school, if they do send a rep, be sure he/she goes to the session and strongly expresses interest. 
Eventually choose one and apply early decision, since binding that makes it very clear that the kid will come if admitted and overcomes perhaps lack of school relationship with the college.  If not admitted or deferred, apply ED2 to a different less selective one, they almost all have ED2, a second binding admission round (still have to apply elsewhere but find out if admitted in February).  
Anyway, lots of ways to work around lack of a school relationship with a particular school, and agree with above posters who say colleges LIKE to draw in kids from new schools they don't normally draw from.  My DD got into a top Ivy in part I think because her school traditionally send many many kids to a different Ivy, and to some degree being one of the only very strong applicants from her school really helped.

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