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[quote=Anonymous]1. Start with safeties for the major, and show them love. Visit those first if possible and make sure that the kid would be FINE going as a last resort. Too many apply sight unseen to their safety and that is sometimes what students are stuck with.

2. What you decide on as a family may be tested by peers or school college counselors, ie. kids might want to chase prestige when the apps go in as their peers are doing when they had no interest doing so before. No harm, but stick to whatever your parameters are.

3. We used an essay coach and she took kids’ essays and almost rewrote them, and so she was quickly sacked. My kid asked his English teacher to read them instead and that worked well. My kid was never going to bowl AO’s over with his writing anyway.

4. We knew my kid was a dime a dozen on paper. Mid 1400’s SAT, top 20% of selective private, sport captain, summer jobs, a few clubs, volunteered a bit every year, 7 AP’s…we were fully expecting loads of EA deferrals at privates (and that happened). If a school offers ED, consider your EA chances small.
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