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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SO all those with supposedly unhooked DC with 1500 should tell us what the secret ingredient was...
Or...perhaps just a bit of luck, because that poster who keeps claiming that applying to more of the top 20/30 schools doesn't statistically increase acceptance rates is probably just a Big 3 college counselor who doesn't know statistics. With acceptance rates in the single digits and many many qualified applicants (remember niece also had exceptional extracurriculars which didn't get discussed!), it's in good part luck of the draw, like in a lottery. And could it be that many of those lower tier colleges might not have accepted niece because they thought she'd place better and they were concerned about yield? Should this girl really have applied ED to BC or her parental legacy to have a shot at a decent outcome? If that is what one has to do after paying 200k+ for a Big 3, won't many people opt out of the  private schools?[/quote]

I am the poster who mentioned college office said 10-12 was target but no hard limit.  I assure you I am not a college counselor but I am relaying what the office told my kid.  The explanation was the quality of the application: basically most kids find they don’t have time to write 12+ excellent college apps with all the supplemental materials required (on top of rigorous classes and the activities of senior year) nor can kids write a decent “why X university” essay once they get past top 12.  The writing is bland because they have 12 other schools they prefer.  With that they showed us a slide that had acceptances by number of applications.  basically, kids applying to 10-12 usually had 5-6 acceptances (I think, I may be off slightly) and kids applying to 20 also had the same number of acceptances generally.  There could be nuance to that for sure, but my kid followed the advice (and we didn’t hire an outside counselor) and kid got into top choice school. [/quote]

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