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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One interesting thing about GDS is that they limit students to 10 applications, only 3 of which may be “reaches.” And they define any school with an acceptance rate of 20% (or 25%?) or less to be a reach. That means GDS students are effectively unable to shotgun all the top 10 schools, or all Ivy League, or whatever.

(They are allowing students this year to apply to 2 more schools beyond the usual 10, but the additional ones must be “foundational” — or safety — schools. This is a response to the uncertainty created by the Supreme Court.)

I don’t know if other private schools have similar policies. But I do think that in the absence of these policies, you would probably find more “shotgunning” and thus more admissions to highly selective schools. They are quite serious about the policy — my kid got into a couple safeties in early action, but the school would not permit him to add another reach school for regular admission. He could only add “foundational” schools even with admissions in hand.[/quote]

How can they restrict the number of schools a kid applies to??  That seems ridiculous[/quote]

[b]Restricted and semi controlled who applies where = greater chance of success. If the top 5 candidates apply to every T10 and get in then less room for other candidates. Your first competition is within your school, so by restricting applicants it helps all candidates and also makes the school have better yield.[/b][/quote]

Yes!  NCS has had several 3.95-4.0 girls in recent years who were not admitted to their ED so they applied to all the Ivies (and Ivy equivalents) in RD and then ran the table while everyone else was shut out in this round.  
The colleges don't have a firm quota per private high school but they're generally not going to admit more than 1 or 2 kids. 
And they're generally not going to admit the 3.89 (or what not) when there is a 4.0 on the table---it makes the 3.89 look like a slacker even if this kid worked phenomenally hard, is totally capable of Ivy level work, has fantastic extracurriculars and would have received a spot if they were not compared to the 4.0. 
I think the same thing is going to happen this year, given what I know about who is still in the mix.  [/quote]

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