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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone gets knocked down a tier. When UW 4.0/35+ACTgreat ACTs are getting denied and deferred EA/ED they start applying to more schools T30-65.

Now kids that normally would get in those schools are getting knocked down a tier and so and so on.

You can’t blame the high stats kids for getting shut out of top schools and reaching down.  Don’t hate the player, hate the game.[/quote]

If you curate a good list of reaches, targets and true safeties/likelies, then you do not need to apply to 20+ schools.  Just because you have high stats does not mean you should apply to 7-10 T25 schools.  Search to find the 3-5 that are an excellent fit, then find 3-5 targets and another 3-5 safeties.  That's 9-15 schools at most.  Then show demonstrated interest at all of them, but especially your targets and safeties.  If you do it correctly, you should get into at least 50% of your targets and 75-100% of your safeties.

My own 1500/3.99UW/9APs/Good EC but not stupendous had it go this way:

ED1 T10, deferred and ultimately rejected (acceptance rate less than 7%)
T30--WL (single digit acceptance rates)
3 T30-50 Accepted 
1 T60 Accepted, but go abroad for first year (single digit acceptance rates)
1 T70 Accepted with excellent merit (30% of total costs/year)---Top Safety
Accepted at the other 3 safeties as well

So as my kid says, they were only rejected from 1 school outright.  
They are at one of the T30-50 schools, of course the one without any merit, but the one I knew was probably the best fit for my kid from the moment they set foot on campus.  Each visit they just lit up and you could see the excitement.  So this was actually a better place then their 3 reaches.
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The tone here is just off. Why the “holier than thou” nasty attitude?
Your kid isn’t even going through the process now. 
Why are you still hanging around here?[/quote]

Because I have 1 more to go thru the process in a few years.

Not "holier than thou" attitude.  just reality that I see so many thinking, my high stats kid is better than everyone else and deserves a spot in a T25 school, and then the parents are scrambling to help the kid find more schools to apply to when they get rejected/WL at their first rounds of "Top schools".    We see it every damn year, people complaining their kid got rejected from 10-15+ schools and "how can that happen". Well it happens because those schools all have less than 20% acceptance rates, most have single digits.  That means it's a crap shoot for everyone.     However, I do not personally see kids getting rejected from all their 30-60 schools if they put in the effort and find ones they want to attend.  [/quote]

DP.  I didn't see anything nasty about your post, and I don’t know what the other poster's issue is. You provided a lot of great advice.  I've had 2 go through this in the past 3 years. Max was 15 apps, and that related to FA. We have a friend applying to 20, but they have a unique FA situation-- higher income but with health expenses.  So, I get it for them. [/quote]

Yes, chasing merit is an excellent reason for having more applications.  Most doing that have a very targeted plan and I can understand why they apply to more schools.  They also are applying to Targets and safeties, not 10+ reaches.

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