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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They limit because selective colleges will only make a couple offers to a graduating class.

And the top 10 students could take up all the offers - and they can only attend one school each. This happened in graduating class above DC. Top three students applied to all top SLACs (Amherst, Swat, Bowdoin, Pomona, etc). And got offers - but kids chose legacy schools - parents went to top Ivies (HYP).

So, next 25-30 ranked students get very few offers from top SLACs. And no one from school ended up at Pomona, Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin, etc. Not a good result for majority of students or for the school.

And for those asking how I know….those dots in naviance are very telling. The other kids know and parents know. You are not anonymous on naviance - and god help a younger sibling following a kid who hoarded offers. And thought….“I just wanted to see if I could get in” but never intended to attend - has consequences in a private school with a graduating class of 100 to 200.

OP, if you go in and say you are going for schools that offer merit, counselors will help. And tipy top schools don’t offer merit - but offer grants for lower income families - nothing for families in middle. But merit is offered to great students at Maclester, Oberlin, Kenyon.
These are great schools but not tipy top schools. And these type of schools will make half dozen offers to a graduating class.

Counselors will probably help you identify best schools to go for merit. But this best done one on one with counselor. 
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this happened at NCS last year.  there were 3 girls who had GPAs close to 4 who applied to 20-25 schools.  There was no chance that they were going to end up at 98% of the schools they applied to (they were each legacy at a HYP that they ended up attending) but in the process of applying to 25 schools for kicks they shut out the rest of the class from those schools (literally.  Because most colleges are not going to take a kid with a 3.8+ who is at the 80-90% of the grade if there is a 3.99 who is at the 98% of the grade who also applies). As such there were no regular decision Ivy admits (outside of the top 3 girls) and no admits at most top20s (again outside of the top 3)

This is the downside of applying from a small high school where there is a large GPA spread among kids who are all interested in strong colleges.  Super high GPAs can really shut out lower GPAs.  It's less pronounced in public because there are more kids at the same (high) GPA and what distinguishes them is extracurriculars, etc.  at these privates there is far more diversity in GPA.  You have smart kids (sat 1500+) who have GPAs that range from 3.5-4.0.  [/quote]

This right here is why they restrict applications at GDS. NCS used to “unofficially” restrict applications prior to the pandemic (strongly discourage any more than 6-8). Test optional made things the Wild West for grade deflated schools like NCS and they eased up on application restrictions. [/quote]

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