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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2023: 20 (including 12 reaches, after ED1 deferral). At ivy.

2025: 22 (including 14 reaches, after ED1 deferral). Enrolled at T10.[/quote]

Why so many reaches?[/quote]

Better question: how many acceptances from the reach schools?

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But if the reach the kid eventually ends up at was a high reach, isn’t one reach acceptance enough? 
That’s the whole point of the 20+ apps with 10-13 reaches, right? Just to get one reach?[/quote]

That's the point but in practice it doesn't seem to work that well. It's hard to make a genuine and persuasive case for a particular school if you're applying to 20+. A lot of kids who do that end up getting into no reaches. And getting rejected from that many is very demoralizing.  To be rejected from three reaches is kind of like, oh well, but there's a psychic cost to opening 20 rejections.[/quote]

Doesn't seem that way from what I see. Maybe your kid just wasn't a strong applicant?
Probably the major.[/quote]

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