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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK B o o m e r.[/quote]

Ummm you don't have to be a Boomer to think like that. You literally just have to be smart enough, reasonable enough to understand what a single digit acceptance rate means.

Find the 4-5 Top schools that interest you/are a good fit for you all around, apply and hope, but at same time create an excellent list of Target and Safeties that your kid also Loves and would really want to attend.  Focus your enegery on those, because that is most likely where they will be attending. 
To improve your enjoyment/happiness, make sure 1-2 of the targets are where your kid is at/above 75% and the acceptance rate is also 30%+.

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Agree. Colleges have many many characteristics (quality of food, beauty of campus, safety, sports, class size, etc etc etc), & some people have allowed ONE  of those characteristics (how hard it is to get into) to trump all the rest.

If getting an excellent education is the goal, there are hundreds of American colleges where the professors know 100X what your 18-year-old knows.

—Parent of a kid who went to a top 10 & another kid who went to a top 150. They BOTH learned a lot. [/quote]

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