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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just curious if parents who have been through the admissions cycle this year could comment on my DD who is a junior at a W school. She has a 3.98 UW and (estimating) 4.7 W GPA and 1470 SAT. She is going to take the SAT again to try and get her verbal higher. Btw, her choice. We think her score is great!

She has worked all through the pandemic and when she got laid off from her first job, she went and found another job at a “big box” retailer” working 15-20 hours per week. Other usual ECs. Applied for summer internships and should hear back later this month.

Current list: Pitt, Case Western, Northeastern, Michigan, U of Miami and she is deciding between Northwestern and Wash U for her ED spot. Wants to study psychology or science and pre-med.

She needs a list of safeties. Help and thanks!!![/quote]

Northwestern unlikely to happen. I would go with WashU for ED choice. [/quote]

Actually both are unlikely to happen as both are high reaches with very low admit rates. You really need to soul search whether you should be tossing out your ED on a dream instead of on a match with low admit rates.[/quote]

The lesson of this year's admissions cycle is: use your ED wisely.  Don't throw it away on a "lottery" school.  And definitely be realistic that any "big name" school with 10% or 15% admissions rates are lotteries (b/c they will turn away many, many highly qualified students).  Using ED on a school that you really think your DC can get into was the ticket this year.  There are a LOT of highly qualified "high flyers" that are top-of-the-class, 1500+ SAT, great Ecstatics, etc. that got shut out or placed on waitlists.  Chose wisely and good luck.[/quote]

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