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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think what people are saying is that not only do you not have true safeties but the "target" zone on your list is a little scanty too. You have a ton of reaches (Hamilton and Midd and Wesleyan are reaches, and her odds are low unless she EDs them). With a really strong application, they become low reaches if ED'd.

I think your actual targets for applying RD are F&M, Dickinson, Bard, UMD. If she is really happy with those options that's good, but F&M is a significantly more competitive school than Bard and Dickinson and maybe she'd want more options in that range?[/quote]

I posted this and want to clarify that it's not like it's impossible she could get into Williams or a school that selective--it could happen! But in the past couple years I have known of some excellent students who applied to highly selective schools and ended up at schools much lower ranked than you would have expected (and TBH, schools they really didn't want and 
had never expected to actually attend) because they didn't have solid middle-range options. Admissions are more competitive and unpredictable than they were five years ago.[/quote]

This is excellent advice. We realized after the fact that our high stats kid (class of 21) applied to lots of reaches for all, and some solid safeties we liked, but not much in the way of targets. It all worked out in the end, but it was stressful. We're being more careful to make sure our next kid finds more schools in that middle range that they would be happy attending, also. [/quote]

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