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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid with similar stats and interests who just went through this process. From that vantage, I think your DS is wasting his time on Williams and Brown. Rice, Vanderbilt, Emory, and Wash U are very unlikely; so are Middlebury, Colgate, and Wake unless he's applying ED. Most of the schools on your list fill 60-70 percent of their entering class via ED, which means in RD your DS will be competing for very few remaining seats among a much larger pool. Pick one school - not one of the super reachy ones - and apply ED. Check their scores to decide whether he goes TO (I know that sounds crazy, but every school's scores have been pushed higher by TO.) And think about adding some other mid-pack LACs : in addition to Vassar, Kenyon, Conn College, I'd look at Denison, Oberlin, Macalester, Bates, Lafayette, Gettysburg etc etc. [/quote] You sound like a paid college counselor. Pretty spot on. [/quote]
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