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The general recommendation by private college counselors is to apply to 6-9 universities/colleges. 2-3 reaches, 2-3 matches, 2-3 safeties.

So a max of 10 seems eminently reasonable, OP. The essays have to be really well written. Counselors seek to avoid students overextending themselves and sabotaging themselves with poor personal statements and supplemental essays.[/quote]

That's outdated for very academic/selective candidates.  I'm talking the 35/36 ACT, unweighted 4.0s/weighted higher, most rigorous course load, leader of a club, athlete, etc.  These kids are in the top of the top 10 admissions stats for scores/SATS, but just given the sheer low level of acceptance rates (4-8% at most of the top 10s--and, let's face it, caucasians/non-legacy/nonfirst gen--that percentage is even lower) [b]they need to cast a wider net[/b].  And I would up the meets/exceeds stat reaches and have 2 lower (lest than top 213) and only 1-2 sure bet.[/quote]

So the very reason there are lower acceptance rates is because so many kids are “high stats” nowadays (thanks to grade inflation), that parental anxiety compels them to apply to more and more schools, seeing as very little differentiates the applicants. And your solution is to…cast a wider net? Do you see the problem here?[/quote]

Yes. Kids that never would have dreamed of applying to an Ivy or top 10, much less top 20, because in the past they would have had to submit scores that are so far off the mark of the range the school considers are now NOT sending scores so they are applying to all of these schools in mass.  That's the bigger issue. Everyone has a high gpa because of grade inflation these days.  I mean our public HS had 250 valedictorians and more than 1/2 the graduating class had a 4.0.  Technically, with no test score requirement they figure they can now hit up these schools and I've seen some that had abysmally low scores (friend shared) get accepted.  [/quote]

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