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[quote=Anonymous]I think it’s important to establish whether you want to help your child reach high and potentially cope with more rejections and uncertainty through a dragged out admissions process, or play it safer. I feel our private school’s college counseling office steered our student to a high reach that for her was very unrealistic (her stats were just too low for this particular school with historically few acceptances from our high school). Instead, I would have preferred focusing on a school a tier lower that has a lot of green dots in the scattergram for our high school. For our kid, who burns out easily, a more strategic and measured approach for ED would have been better and she would benefit from more certainty earlier on.

Now we are instead playing the long game after getting an ED rejection (that I fully expected, even though we tried to stay positive and hopeful). We let our student guide the process with input from the college counselor but were skeptical of the ED strategy. Might go for ED2 but our kid is now feeling a bit scattered and overwhelmed. I guess my advice is that you know your child best and should go with your gut in certain respects. Sometimes the experts don’t have the expertise about your kid’s profile, or they’re more focused on the school’s broad strategy versus your individual student’s specific needs. In our case, we weren’t fully aligned in terms of risk aversion.[/quote]

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