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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GDS does this, and IMHO, it's a very good policy. College admissions results speak for themselves.[/quote]

I'm a GDS parent of a student too young to have started the college app process, and based on my older, non-GDS kid's peers' experiences, I'm very thankful that GDS imposes this limit and makes students really think about what makes a good fit school, instead of just applying to as many "top" schools as possible. [/quote]

But imagine that when your student is a senior that they are at the top of the class and are limited to 7 apps?  It would be highly risky to apply to more than 2 "highly rejective" schools which includes all privates in the top 20 and the top LAC's so they will take a random chance at two of those and pick out two safeties likely mid range publics and perhaps Lehigh.   Leaving them 3-4 "targets" from the top publics and T20-50 that is when your student is going to be told about the issue of yield protection for students like them unless the applying via binding ED so Tufts, Tulane etc are going to waitlist them or flat out deny them.   You might not be as supportive of the system then.  
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7 is not 10

[b]What school limits to 7?[/b]  Don't know but OP's post says some limit to 7 or 8 and that seems likely to lead to bad outcomes and lots of rule bending . . .
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