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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like the 3 cohorts of reaches, targets, and safeties are no longer valid buckets for non hooked DMV students.  It’s basically schools that have 75% acceptance rate and less than 75%.  Anything in the bucket of acceptance rate less than 75% is a lottery ticket for strong stat student in the DMV area (non URM, non athletes, no hooks).  [b]Since there really isn’t a rhyme or reason for how those schools accept student because of the blackhole of holistic admissions, for non hook students they have to apply to numerous schools to have a higher statistical chance for just getting an acceptance…it’s just math.[/b][/quote]

Agree with this. [/quote]

You may want to double check your math if you think applying to 20 schools with a 5% accept rate adds up to 100% chance of getting one of them.

Definitely a frenzy if DC applies to 5 reaches and gets none of them so they apply to five more because maybe these will be different.

It’s a “bloodbath” when your kid gets into 7 schools because you haven’t heard from the higher prestige ones yet, and surely you HAVE TO go to the highest ranked school.

You’re all doing this to yourselves. Not everyone is playing this game, but the ones who are, well they are doing exactly the wrong strategies. [/quote]

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