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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP just remember that you’re going to want to tour all these still at school, go to their various open houses possibly, and some sports events etc. And she’ll want to do shadow days.

She’s going to get overwhelmed making a choice and you are going to be overwhelmed with all the time commitments. Coming from a K-8 and good test scores and grades, I’d definitely trim the list. We were a similar profile and only applied to two schools, which still felt like plenty. [/quote]

This. We came from a Catholic K-8, and DC applied and got into 5 schools but  then agonized over making a decision. 5 seemed like a lot compared to peers who probably averaged 3 applications, but I figured if they wanted to write the essays, five was fine.

If I had to do over again, I would limit it to 3. There was just too much information (open houses, shadow days, accepted students nights) for DC to be able to focus and whittle it down easily. They found it very overwhelming, and I wished that I had set a limit during the application process.[/quote]

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