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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My high stats local private school kid (outside DMV, top 10% of class but not top 5%, SAT low 1500’s) applied to 11 schools- 4 reaches, 3 matches and 4 likelies. Rejected from one reach (T-25) deferred REA and then waitlisted RD at another (T-25), waitlisted at third reach, in at 4th reach (T-25) and attending there. Deferred and waitlisted at in-state public match EA, in at two other (private) matches- no merit. In at all likelies, with merit. When you say “local” I’m assuming your kid’s private is not a big feeder school, but does well with a few select T-25 schools each year.[/quote]

I actually meant local to the DMV.

Can you give examples of the types of schools you considered matches and likelies?  You don't have to name the specific school, but say something similar?  [/quote]

PP-For matches, my kid was looking at places in the T40-T100 range- Wake Forest, Richmond, Tulane, W & M (OOS). Anything in the T-25 (including lower-end) was a reach for my kid- UVA, Duke, Vanderbilt,  etc. Safeties with merit were on the lower end of the T40-T100 range .[/quote]

Wake Forest and Tulane tend to make bad targets unless you planning to ED.  Their regular decision acceptance rates are low, Wake’s is below 10 percent, for example.  [/quote]

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