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[quote=Anonymous]My son is a good student at a very good private school. Probably middle to lower rank but never got a C or lower. 690 on each section of SAT. Not ambitous and no hooks and made minimal effort (from dad's view) on college applications.  He did the process all himself (with some guidance from college counseling).

He applied to 9 schools. He visited 3 schools that he applied to.  He applied to public and private schools in east coast, midwest and california. 
Being an analyst, i tried to roughly categorize the schools.

There were 4 schools where his scores were on the lower edge of average 25% for SAT score (reaches), 3 where he was in the middle of the 25-75th percentile (likelies), and 2 where he was above or at 75% edge of the SAT score range (aka safeties).  He was rejected at 2 of his reaches and 1 of his likelies. He was waitlisted at 1 of each category.  He was accepted at 1 of each category.

I think he will be happy with his school choice (yet to be decided) but all this to say you cannot have a lot of expectations on acceptances going into the process.
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