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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We know one 1600 SAT kid who actually have good ECs, great grades, etc...but bragged to his classmates that he completed like 7 applications to top 10 schools all in one night just before the deadline.

Guess what...rejected at all.  If you speak to the parents, their revisionist history is their kid was aggrieved and "less than" kids at the school were accepted.

The kids know he probably submitted POS applications.[/quote]

Exactly!  And there is no way a kid would actually want to attend 7 T10 schools, as they are all so different.

If you don't put in the effort, you don't have a real chance.  And even if you do, go in knowing they are all highly rejective schools, even more so for certain majors (yes, even if not direct admit, if all your kid's EC revolve around Robotics/STEM/etc, they likely are not ending up as an English and art history major and the schools know that).  So pick your reaches and spend time with targeted applications, but more importantly, pick excellent Targets and safeties.  And pick some targets that are "more likely"---so no 21% acceptance rates and your kid at 40%==Pick a few with 30-40%+ acceptance rates where your kid is 75%+ and then show interest.  Know if the schools do interviews, if they do, attempt to sign up for one and that's another 10-15 mins to highlight why you belong there.  My high stats kid got into all their Targets and Safeties, and WL at two reaches, first year abroad at NEU and ultimately rejected at a T10 (ED1 Deferred then rejected).  So exactly what you would expect to happen.  
But since they picked great targets and safeties, they had many schools to choose from, and their top safety was such a great school, they kept it in the final 3 choices April of senior year. [/quote]

I'd also say - study the data. Really really well. There is so much more than meets the eye.

Agree on STEM majors - classify down = [b]if you think your 4.0/1600 CS/applied math/engineering major is competitive for REA at Harvard. They aren't. [/b]Look at ED at CMU. And ED2 a level down. [/quote]

They may not get accepted...but hard to understand how they are not competitive.  [/quote]

They are competitive, but you must realize that so are 75%+ of the applicants, and 95% of the applicants will be rejected.  So logically (simple stats), many highly qualified applicants will be rejected.  
And applying to more schools doesn't change it.  Each one is an individual event.

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