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[quote=Anonymous]Kids applying to highly rejective schools have to have a long list. It is just so unpredictable. My eldest would have been thrilled to be one and done but didn't get accepted ED, so he ended up applying to 19 more. 1 safety, 4 targets, 14 reaches. In the end he was accepted to 5 reaches plus the 4 targets and 1 safety. He was wait-listed at 5 more reaches but didn't stay on the wait-list. I can honestly say that I would not have predicted the outcome. He was accepted at an Ivy, but not the Ivies his parent attended; in at a couple highly selective liberal arts colleges, but not others; in at some top 25s but wait-listed at several 25-50s. The experience with my second kid was much breezier. He was not as strong a student (UW 3.4 rather than UW 3.9; high 1300s rather than high 1500s) and applied pretty much to schools in the US News 50-100 range. He got into 11 of 12 schools, many without supplementals.[/quote]
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