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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had very little help from Guidance this year for my son's college apps, so I tried to take a lot of it on myself in terms of helping him research and target schools.

When he was rejected early from his number one choice (but a "reach") we ended up applying to another 15 schools.

Of those schools, we currently have 4 accepts, 2 accepts but not to the school he applied to, 6 rejections, 1 waitlist, and 2 schools left to hear from.

Did we plan this operation properly? Shoot too high?

Is the goal to get mostly acceptances or is it to apply to such a variety of schools that you get a realistic picture of where your child is showing with colleges in larger context?

This is my first kid to apply to college so I appreciate any insights. [/quote]

As long as he has one college he likes to go to, it is enough.  [b]15 seems high.  It looks like you applied to quite a few reaches- so perhaps you could have curtailed those.[/b]  My older DC is currently majoring in Engineering and a college and he applied to four schools.  Three were big rural state engineering schools and one was a state LAC (I wanted him to apply to something completely different incase he woke up and decided engineering was not for him).  He applied to Penn State in October of is senior year- rolling admission - he found out two weeks later.  So that took care of "safety".  I would recommend this to anyone wanting to major in engineering.  Then he applied to VA Tech and Purdue.  He got into Purdue in December and that was it, it was his first choice.  He did get into Tech, but it was an anti-climax as he was already set on going to Purdue.

[/quote]  Not necessarily.  A high stats kid looking to attend a university commiserate with their high school performance has to play a numbers game.  The odds of getting into an "elite" school are quite small no matter what your stats and if you don't have a hook they are even smaller.[/quote]

^^this is double speak for "I only want to apply to Ivy League caliber schools because that's the only schools worthy of me". [/quote]

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