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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Visiting Yale and Princeton even though we knew getting into either is a lottery. We wanted inspire but instead it led to heartbreak. [/quote]

Agree with this.  We did a lot wrong but this is something we did right. Our kids go to a DC private and in a grade-wide meeting sophomore year the college counselor said something to the effect of "start visiting colleges but don't start with Harvard, Princeton, Yale etc."

So we didn't although my kid has the grades/scores for a lottery ticket anywhere. We saw some second and third tier schools and now a year later one of those schools is likely my kid's ED choice for next year and she will also be fine attending any one of the rest.  We've since seen some elite schools (still no Ivies) but she likes some of the lower ranked ones just as much if not better than the top 20 ones.  There is something special about the first handful of schools a kid visits.  I think the novelty of the first visits mean that more times than not they end up being among the eventual favorites.  
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