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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP - I agree with your sentiments.  I think most students (and parents) are well aware of how fierce competition is and if the counselors were to be a little bit more transparent of how many kids with higher stats are applying to the same school while another similar (or even slightly lower ranked) school is being relatively overlooked, I think kids would consider pivoting to the alternative choice.

As an example, if tons of kids were applying Northwestern ED and didn't have a chance, maybe the CCO could let them know that Johns Hopkins/Rice/Notre Dame has less applicants that year from the school so would the student be interested in using their ED/EA slots and applying there instead.  Of course, its up to the student if they want to drastically change their focus from Northwestern to one of these other schools but at least they would go in eyes wide open.

I strongly believe that kids today are genuinely more open to guidance than they were a few years ago.  The reality of the pandemic has made people a lot more humble. 
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Another Sidwell parent.  We even diplomatically asked for the information but was politely told they can’t give any hint. We didn’t go after it.[/quote]

14:14.  You should have asked more pointedly.  We did, and were told what the situation was. No specific names of course, but that DC would be taking a long shot on this particular ED choice, and here is why.[/quote]

I’m a different pp, but we also did not get that kind of information. And I question whether it really should be necessary to ask “pointedly” and whether pointedly might be interpreted by some counselors as confrontational. Especially since we all were lectured (yelled at?) by Bryan early on in the process about acceptable parent behavior, due to the events that had occurred in prior years.[/quote]

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