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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you/ your kid/ counselor come up with a list of safety and target school? I am the OP in the other post asking for a reasonable list for my son. Based on the comments, it seems like most people don’t utilize their schools recent naviance/ Scoir data and mostly rely on CDS.

Just curious what data source do you use to come up with a list of safeties and targets?[/quote]

People make fun of Niche, but I think getting a Niche log-in account was very helpful.

The truth is: My son did all the work. I just did the research I did because I enjoyed understanding what was going on.

Naviance didn’t show anything useful about any school but the state flagship.

The Niche log-in account was much better because it showed admissions scattergram by major. Even if those are based on partial, incomplete data, at least they give you a rough idea of how things work.

And, if you look at a school entry on Niche, it will then show you a list of similar schools.

I think another strategy is to think about where your kid might want to live and make the safeties non-selective schools in those communities.

Example: Many cities have nice, affordable Jesuit colleges that are hungry for applicants and have no brand awareness whatsoever outside of those cities. But everyone in one of those cities knows about the college and has warm thoughts about it. So, it might be a great option for a student who’d be happy to settle down in that city. 
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