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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dont know if any are "Top 40" (number seems arbitrary).
Rejected: Harvard, Penn
Waitlist: NEU, UVA
Accepted: WM, CWRU, Lehigh, BU, UMD, UMN, OSU, Pitt
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Poster above. AMAZINGLY collegevine.com was exactly right in predicting DS's outcomes. Rejected from reaches, waitlisted at 2 of 3 hard targets and accepted to 1 hard target and all targets and safeties. [/quote]

Amazingly, if you do your list right, your kid will likely get rejected at their reaches, in at most of their targets and all of their safeties.

The people who end up "upset come April" are those that think their snowflake will actually get into all their reaches with single digit acceptance rates---fact is majority will not get into any no matter what your stats.   You must build your reach, target and safety/likely list from acceptance rates.  If you do that, your kid will have a good list of acceptances come April.

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+1 people completely lose sight of this. Focus on finding safeties you can love because there's a good chance you'll end up choosing among those. DD had four safeties and people asked why bother with multiple safeties. Because then you have choices and preferences can evolve over senior year.[/quote]

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