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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2023: 1 ED, 1 Rolling, 1 EA (both safeties). In at all, didn’t have to keep going after ED admit to SLAC.

2025: ED Ivy reach (reject), ED2 T20 reach (deferral), 1 rolling safety and 4 EA Safety (accepted all), 3 EA Target (accept 2, defer 1), 2 EA Reach (defer both)
RD (included deferrals from above): 1 Target (WL), 12 Reach (accepted 3, WL 5, rejected 4)

We classified schools based on their acceptance rates, over 50% was safety, 26-49 was target, and bellow 25 was reach. But all
The reaches on the list were under 20, most under 15%.

Total applications: 22, accepted 11, WL 6, rejected 5[/quote]

Where did your DC end up going?[/quote]

Also, looking back at the list, we could and should have cut some of the safeties and some of the reaches. They applied to, I would say, 10 schools with really had no interest or intention of attending. Got into 4 of them (all of the safety/targets, none of the 6 reaches in that group).

Cutting those would leave a list of 12 schools. Of those 12, the stats would have been 2 safeties (accepted 2), 3 targets (accepted 2, WL 1), 7 reaches (accepted 3, WL 3, rejected 1). Total acceptances would have been 7/12.

I think once they got rejected from the ED1 reach school, they and we had a bit of doubt and started adding schools, both “just in case” and “why not” because they had lost of essay variations written and it wasn’t a ton of extra work to do so.

[b]This is easy to say in hindsight though. When you are in it, it’s hard to not add a school because you don’t know what the outcome will be and you want your kid to have choices. [/b]We could afford the application fees, so we said okay when they suggested adding a school and they said okay when we suggested adding one.

We are all happy with the outcome, and they are excited to start in a few weeks.[/quote]

This. Admissions is unpredictable. Having choices is our goal. At my child’s school there isn’t a lot of Naviance data on many of the schools they are applying to, so they must cast a wide net.[/quote]

Same. Glad they applied to 20+ schools bc of this. It wasn't that hard or that much more work.[/quote]

How can it not be a lot more work? Most of these colleges have 2-6 essays each. Adding 5 colleges means 10-30 more essays. [/quote]

Most do not have 2-6 essays. [/quote]

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