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[quote=Anonymous]"This. There are formal limits because some people are a**holes. How many "options" does a top kid need? The school is looking out for the entire community, as they should."

At most, this "helped" 4 other high performing seniors who wanted Princeton and had the stats for it. The other 45+ kids in that senior class had NOTHING to do with this situation. They were never going to apply to Princeton, Harvard, or Stanford, especially if the counseling and list guidance at these schools is as great as some say it is. But the kid ranked #30 in this class of 50 potentially lost out on some chances to get into a better school or better merit offers. You harmed kids 6-50 so that kids 2-5 MIGHT MAYBE POSSIBLY have a shot at Princeton, Harvard, and Stanford. How does a rule like that make sense for the greater good?

I said this before, and I'm saying it again: If you're worried about too many kids applying to the most elite schools that will limit offers to 1-2 students per school and the potential for offer hoarding, impose a limit on how many of those elite schools any student can apply to. Leave the kids hoping for merit from Loyola Maryland out of it. Let them apply to as many flagships in flyover states as they want, other than U Michigan. That solves the problem you've identified and does zero harm to everyone else who has no interest or ability in playing that game. 
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