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[quote=Anonymous]Biggest issue for me is, holy cow that's alot of supplemental essays. Your DC will be full time essay writing all fall.

Mine picked an ED and had those essays done by mid Sept, then applied sparingly to a couple of EA schools.

DD did an ED to a slight reach, two EAs to safeties, one EA to a match and 1 EA to a complete hail mary. Got into the ED as well as the two EA safeties. Pulled the rest of the apps. No need to apply to 15. Even if she hasn't gotten into the ED, she did not plan on sending out too many more, maybe 1-2 more if she hadn't gotten in.

To the poster whose kid applied to 16 schools and got into 4, that is the trap that the high stats kids fall into. Just because they are high stats, doesn't mean they are a shoe in for all those top schools.  It's still less than 10% acceptance and guess what, your kid is a dime a dozen in that pile of applicants to a top school. You have to apply to real safeties, not just what YOU think is a safety. 3 shoe in safeties, 3 matches/targets, 2 reaches. MAX that's 8.[/quote]

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