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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean if this is true - and that's a big if - it would be a pretty strong argument for unconnected kids to take their chances at a specialized high school instead of a TT private, because nobody at Bronx Science is going to take a personal interest in tanking your Harvard application to make sure you don't box out some important donor's kid.[/quote]

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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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It's the gratuitous blanketing of applications that limits opportunities. If you think an unlimited number of applications is great, then you can move to NYC and send your child to Stuyvesant and Bronx Science where all the sweaty 2nd gen kids apply to a gazillion schools. I'm so happy not to be a parent with a child in that environment.
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I have a kid at Hunter College High School (similar to Stuy/Bronx), and they limit to 10 private apps. It is a very controversial policy, but I am a fan. I don't want my child applying to 25 schools. And anecdotally I hear it winds up doing them no favors.
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I went to prep school in the 80s and, different scene, but they did it back then, too. They do it so the top few of the class don't keep the others from getting in. They can't explain it that way because no college will ever admit to having a quote from Prep School Academy. not will the high school openly admit in this day and age to restricting your child's choices. But realistically speaking, top colleges know that they can reliably get x number of successful students per year from Prep School Academy. So the counselor doesn't want the strongest kid to take that spot at all the Ivies.

To give an example, I got into Harvard early back in the day but thought about applying to Yale and Princeton to see which I preferred. My counselor had a Frank conversation with me and said, I think you'll get in but you'll take your classmates's spots. Do you want to do that? Of course I said, no. I didn't want to do that and felt like a jerk for even thinking about my friends getting rejected so that I could have a choice.

There are so many things wrong with the way things used to work and, to a much lesser extent, still do work. But I don't have a problem with this one.
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Link: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/60/1231490.page[/quote]

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